My french exam is tomorrow. At 9am. On a Saturday. GROSS.
But after, I am going ice-skating. Which is definately not gross, but actually really lovely. I can't wait.
Yesterday, I got scholarshipped, which means that the university deposited a large chunk of cash into my account. Pretty awesome.
Today, I should be studying my french but I have a million great ideas floating around my head for paintings. All self-portraits, but I'm in a very reflective mood about my life, so I think it's apt. I think I may be going into a Frida Khalo-esque stage. Not that I'm complaining. She's fantastic!
I guess it may have to do with the fact that I found the diary that I kept while I was overseas last time, throughout Europe (not regularly, but still) and then in the time after I got back. It was great to read back on how I felt, how I dealt with the big blows, heartbreaks and my first impressions on meeting people who I am still in touch with today. Pretty funny at times too. Also good to get some perspective. I went through a really tough time when I returned. I thought I hid it pretty well, but I talked to my mother and she remembers how depressed I was and how she was really worried for me. Anyway, I kept a record of that in the journal, the whole 'blue period' that happened when I got back. I forgot how totally horrible that was, and it gave me some perspective- Although some things may feel pretty bad (falling apart bad) at the moment, I've been through worse and I got out of this period in my life when I seriously doubted that I would ever feel happy again. And I did. And now, it feels bad, but it's been worse. And I got out of that, and I'll get out of this.
So yes, it was a good find. a really good find.
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Thursday, June 25, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
Welcome to the world of blogging, Anna
So, I am finally getting into the world of blogging. I'm not writing to a specific audience, I'm not writing to anyone in particular. I'm really just keeping a journal of my thoughts, artistic inspirations and general scribbles, aphorisms and notes.
A little about me; I am 20, I am an art student, my name is Anna. I've always loved drawing and paining, creating an image, that's been the thing I've loved most. I love travelling, moving etc. I love reading. I consume literature. Currently loving modern philosophy. I love films, foriegn and indie mostly. oh, history and politics are always a hot topic of conversation and debate in my life.
I don't feel like going too in-depth about myself. I think I want to just get into it and work with what has been inspiring my creativity lately.
Like I said, I have always loved draw and paint. When I started art school, I was all about the abstraction, but thanks to the work of one of my best friends, the Vienna Secession and some contemporary design influences, I am developing a more illustrational and graphic style than working with the 'beauty of the gesture'. A lot of my reading gets me into a drawing kinda mood too. And I'm into design at the moment. I've designed too many brooches, but I'm going to go with it for the time being.
For the moment I am focusing on a) drawing everyday and b) trying to produce my first batch of laser-cut, hand-made acrylic brooches. This series of brooches will be Mucha and Klimt inspired queen playing cards. I'm hoping they work out. In a little while, I'll be floating off to my parents' business (they have a laser-engraving place) to use the heavy-duty laser cutters to make what I think will be pretty awesome and intricate brooches.
The inspiration came from a bit of time-wasting playing card games on the computer (oops), and a great mini-essay on certainty (or lack there of), thought and Descartes by Leszek Kolakowski --> The idea of chance and lack of pattern or certainty in life. I think the connection with cards is pretty easy to get. But moreover, in Poland (or perhaps in western culture in general, I assume it's Poland because I've heard this from my relatives), they say that if you're unlucky in cards, you're lucky in love. This is false in my case (I loose too many times in both arenas), but it got me thinking about all these superstitions and how they are just a way to find pattern, rhyme and reason in life's chaos.
This leads me to why I have decided to call this blog 'Icons and Symbols'. I had a lecture about the sybiotic relationship between written and visual cultures. It was trasforming, like an epiphany, the idea of the connection between words an images. A word is a symbol, an image is an icon. I write alot, I also make images. I am inspired by images and by writing. Sometimes, I can only express myself through an image, which has a certain emotive quality to it, sometimes I need to write it. I have a series of journals (Moleskines, what else?! :-) ), some lined (entitled 'symbols') and some plain (entitled 'icons'), so it's only natural for this blog, which is a continuation and record of what is in those journals, and of life in general to be of the same name. Call it a part of my own organsiational memory?
After I work out my scanner, I'll post up some of my scribbles.
A little about me; I am 20, I am an art student, my name is Anna. I've always loved drawing and paining, creating an image, that's been the thing I've loved most. I love travelling, moving etc. I love reading. I consume literature. Currently loving modern philosophy. I love films, foriegn and indie mostly. oh, history and politics are always a hot topic of conversation and debate in my life.
I don't feel like going too in-depth about myself. I think I want to just get into it and work with what has been inspiring my creativity lately.
Like I said, I have always loved draw and paint. When I started art school, I was all about the abstraction, but thanks to the work of one of my best friends, the Vienna Secession and some contemporary design influences, I am developing a more illustrational and graphic style than working with the 'beauty of the gesture'. A lot of my reading gets me into a drawing kinda mood too. And I'm into design at the moment. I've designed too many brooches, but I'm going to go with it for the time being.
For the moment I am focusing on a) drawing everyday and b) trying to produce my first batch of laser-cut, hand-made acrylic brooches. This series of brooches will be Mucha and Klimt inspired queen playing cards. I'm hoping they work out. In a little while, I'll be floating off to my parents' business (they have a laser-engraving place) to use the heavy-duty laser cutters to make what I think will be pretty awesome and intricate brooches.
The inspiration came from a bit of time-wasting playing card games on the computer (oops), and a great mini-essay on certainty (or lack there of), thought and Descartes by Leszek Kolakowski --> The idea of chance and lack of pattern or certainty in life. I think the connection with cards is pretty easy to get. But moreover, in Poland (or perhaps in western culture in general, I assume it's Poland because I've heard this from my relatives), they say that if you're unlucky in cards, you're lucky in love. This is false in my case (I loose too many times in both arenas), but it got me thinking about all these superstitions and how they are just a way to find pattern, rhyme and reason in life's chaos.
This leads me to why I have decided to call this blog 'Icons and Symbols'. I had a lecture about the sybiotic relationship between written and visual cultures. It was trasforming, like an epiphany, the idea of the connection between words an images. A word is a symbol, an image is an icon. I write alot, I also make images. I am inspired by images and by writing. Sometimes, I can only express myself through an image, which has a certain emotive quality to it, sometimes I need to write it. I have a series of journals (Moleskines, what else?! :-) ), some lined (entitled 'symbols') and some plain (entitled 'icons'), so it's only natural for this blog, which is a continuation and record of what is in those journals, and of life in general to be of the same name. Call it a part of my own organsiational memory?
After I work out my scanner, I'll post up some of my scribbles.
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