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9 November 1999
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got to the studio this morning and found out that we were having semi-formal mini crits. peter had reserved a room and the whole deal. having nothing to show i held out for the second group.
at lunch time i went downtown to open up an account at bankboston so that i'll have somewhere to deposit my work-study paychecks. then the risd store to pick up two sets of prints. (pix at left: missing ring in colour, earlier stage of copper vessel, current stage of copper vessel, light reflecting off of the puddles formed by the leaks, and a backhoe from out behind the beb.)
sat in the park and looked through the pictures, then to the copy center to blow a few of them up. grabbed a side of rice to go at the met, then back to the studio. cleaned up a few of my drawings, then it was time for my crit.
it actually went pretty well. prolly 'cause i kinda have a direction now, and that's further than i was last week. although i've been waffling back and forth between liking my project and feeling like i've wasted the last week and a half.
this afternoon the first half of the fifth year and third year grad students presented their proposals for their degree projects. they get a strip of wall in the beb gallery and there's four groups of critics who go from project to project and it's a pretty big deal. i chose to sit in on just one group, and picked the one with the highest percentage of interesting looking projects. for the most part they got less interesting when they were explained unfortunately.
also i ended up in the section that ran the longest. but i think it was worth listening to. there were a couple of points where i would have liked to chime in, but i'm sure that breaks all sorts of rules.
so at 730 i headed up to dinner. but by that point they had already started cleaning up the only things i can eat in the met (the salad/sandwich and pasta bars) and most of the people i know had long since left i'm sure. so i walked up to thayer to get a falafel. when i came back, there were people watching buffy in the lounge. more for the sake of being social than for anything i joined them. maybe i'll make it a weekly thing (one hour of tv a week won't kill me).
then i headed back to the beb and worked on my drawing homework until midnight.
at lunch time i went downtown to open up an account at bankboston so that i'll have somewhere to deposit my work-study paychecks. then the risd store to pick up two sets of prints. (pix at left: missing ring in colour, earlier stage of copper vessel, current stage of copper vessel, light reflecting off of the puddles formed by the leaks, and a backhoe from out behind the beb.)
sat in the park and looked through the pictures, then to the copy center to blow a few of them up. grabbed a side of rice to go at the met, then back to the studio. cleaned up a few of my drawings, then it was time for my crit.
it actually went pretty well. prolly 'cause i kinda have a direction now, and that's further than i was last week. although i've been waffling back and forth between liking my project and feeling like i've wasted the last week and a half.
this afternoon the first half of the fifth year and third year grad students presented their proposals for their degree projects. they get a strip of wall in the beb gallery and there's four groups of critics who go from project to project and it's a pretty big deal. i chose to sit in on just one group, and picked the one with the highest percentage of interesting looking projects. for the most part they got less interesting when they were explained unfortunately.
also i ended up in the section that ran the longest. but i think it was worth listening to. there were a couple of points where i would have liked to chime in, but i'm sure that breaks all sorts of rules.
so at 730 i headed up to dinner. but by that point they had already started cleaning up the only things i can eat in the met (the salad/sandwich and pasta bars) and most of the people i know had long since left i'm sure. so i walked up to thayer to get a falafel. when i came back, there were people watching buffy in the lounge. more for the sake of being social than for anything i joined them. maybe i'll make it a weekly thing (one hour of tv a week won't kill me).
then i headed back to the beb and worked on my drawing homework until midnight.