Well, way back at the beginning of the quarter, I made a resolution to write regularly, about once a week or so, and then I embarked upon an approximately five-week-long death march, so whenever I wasn’t in class I was working, and, quite literally, had no time to write. But now it’s summer vacation time, and I’m more or less recovered, and I can return and tell you what happened with everything.

I got B’s in both my art classes, which is pretty good overall, especially considering Paul is a very tough grader. I made $158.40 in the print sale, which, while not nearly as much as I would have liked to make, is still pretty darn good (my main concern was to just get rid of all my prints so I wouldn’t have to cart them back with me, but that didn’t happen either). I made some pretty interesting pieces in 2D Foundations, things that I never would have thought to try had I not been assigned to make something exemplifying some concept or other, which was quite a different approach for me. I’ve generally been provided with at least some guidelines as far as the content of my work, but 2D Foundations did nothing in that department, instead concentrating on testing our grasp of visual theory. It was infinitely more challenging in some ways, and rather liberating in others.

Anyway, I’m pretty happy overall with the work I produced, although I could have done without spending eleven hours a day in the print studio and not getting to eat because of it, all while juggling assignments for two other classes simultaneously. I guess the next step is to scan everything and put it on the Internet for your viewing pleasure. Plus that’ll save me the trouble of having to try to describe everything.

Next quarter, I’m not taking any studio classes, but I am venturing into the world of the UCSC HAVC department (History of Art and Visual Culture). Max took one of their classes on Southeast Asia this spring and highly recommended it; the class I’m taking in fall will be on ancient Greek art, and the Internet has nothing but good things to say about the professor, so I’m looking forward to it. We’ll see how I do with that and a concurrent history class on ancient Japan, plus an introductory class on programming in Java. Fortunately, I’m surrounded by people who are much better with computers than myself, so that last shouldn’t be too terribly difficult. I hope.

Until fall, then. Keep creating!

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