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I suppose now would be a good time for an update.
Thank you limnides and arctoa for the feature!
I haven't been blogging because most of my words now go into correspondence and book-writing.
I have made a few books before, but they were the kind with pictures, and so it was easier to fill a lot of pages. This is a little more demanding, words are tiny. You need so many of them!
I have also just finished applying for a Masters of Fine Art at my top two Universities. Now I wait, and slowly tear my cuticles off.
It passes the time.
All the while working retail, you know, keeping it real, surviving, paying for my costly photography habit. Film is expensive, and now a little hard to come by. My refrigerator full of film has become a refrigerator half-full of film. Apparently I'm an optimist!
I continue to shoot my series Some of the People I (Don't) Know, which won me a spot on the Magenta's 2011 list of emerging photographers from around the world (30 from Canada) the series doesn't really have a planned ending, I suppose I will stop when it feels... boring. Maybe some of you are bored with it... Sorry. I'm not. I'm still excited by the process of sitting down with subjects, talking, and waiting to see what the results will be, the process of scanning the film, compiling a narrative from shots taken out of their sequence. Building a portrait of people as completely as I can. When it becomes hum ho, when I'm no longer engaged with it, that's when I will stop. Until then, I shoot when the mood strikes me, when the time feels right with particular friends, or the opportunity arises with near-strangers.
Tomorrow I'll be shooting two portraits as my lovely friend Gaby, nous-sommes-vous, visits with her husband. They're from upside-down land (Australia), and while they neglected to bring me a wombat (Why do Australians keep failing me, Francis, where are my wombats?!) I will see if I can show them the warmth Canadians are famed for (we're actually kind of standoffish, don't believe everything you hear--we need a lot of space, look how much of it we have.)
So now I'm off, to do the thing I do best...
Watch tv and fall asleep.
Thank you limnides and arctoa for the feature!
I haven't been blogging because most of my words now go into correspondence and book-writing.
I have made a few books before, but they were the kind with pictures, and so it was easier to fill a lot of pages. This is a little more demanding, words are tiny. You need so many of them!
I have also just finished applying for a Masters of Fine Art at my top two Universities. Now I wait, and slowly tear my cuticles off.
It passes the time.
All the while working retail, you know, keeping it real, surviving, paying for my costly photography habit. Film is expensive, and now a little hard to come by. My refrigerator full of film has become a refrigerator half-full of film. Apparently I'm an optimist!
I continue to shoot my series Some of the People I (Don't) Know, which won me a spot on the Magenta's 2011 list of emerging photographers from around the world (30 from Canada) the series doesn't really have a planned ending, I suppose I will stop when it feels... boring. Maybe some of you are bored with it... Sorry. I'm not. I'm still excited by the process of sitting down with subjects, talking, and waiting to see what the results will be, the process of scanning the film, compiling a narrative from shots taken out of their sequence. Building a portrait of people as completely as I can. When it becomes hum ho, when I'm no longer engaged with it, that's when I will stop. Until then, I shoot when the mood strikes me, when the time feels right with particular friends, or the opportunity arises with near-strangers.
Tomorrow I'll be shooting two portraits as my lovely friend Gaby, nous-sommes-vous, visits with her husband. They're from upside-down land (Australia), and while they neglected to bring me a wombat (Why do Australians keep failing me, Francis, where are my wombats?!) I will see if I can show them the warmth Canadians are famed for (we're actually kind of standoffish, don't believe everything you hear--we need a lot of space, look how much of it we have.)
So now I'm off, to do the thing I do best...
Watch tv and fall asleep.
The Master's
Some massive changes.
I just moved from one city to another to attend grad school. Class begins next week. I am terribly nervous but really excited!
It's a six-person studio program, and so it was a honour to get in, it's also incredibly intense.
After a couple of emotional days I have settled into my new place very well. After the scary car ride, the cats seem to be doing just fine.
I'm excited about having the dedicated time to further my work and the discussions and writing on theory that will add to my practice.
I wish I had more to add than EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
But that really sums it up.
Tagged!
1) Would you rather be transported 200 years into the past or future?
Well, with knowledge of the future, I could take advantage of the past... but as a woman? Maybe not so much. Let's go to the future! Smoggy, as it may be.
2) If computer games, when given the choice, do you always play a character with you gender?
I don't play computer games, at all, but if I did, and the choice existed to play an interesting female character, i would.
3) Will society as we know it still exist in 100 years?
I ask myself this question all the time. i am torn between pessimism, optimism and cynicism. Too many ism's. I need a nap.
I think we r
I'M IN A SHOW. COME TO IT.
Oh, HELLO THERE.
You seem to have caught me off guard, I've just been so distracted and busy of late. Like today, when I counted out over 1000 individual sheets of paper because I work in a fancy paper store and we are doing inventory.
I might have cracked a little with the strain.
The eye strain, mostly. Counting doesn't make for a lot of mental strain.
ANYWAY, I have also been doing other things, things like preparing for a show. A show that is suddenly next week.
COME TO THIS SHOW.
If you do come, and you would like to say hi, I will be the one in the middle of a group of very tall people (because I asked that my friends hide me, an
Oh, hello there
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...
It has been some time!
And what have I to show for it? A few more inches of hair length.
I've also been writing a text-only book, making an image-book, photographing people, and working full time. It's retail, mind you, but it allows me to be a bit creative while funding my projects and steady supply of frozen vegan burritos.
You can even witness my self-promotion in this here workplace blog http://www.thepaperplace.ca/wp/
I am the worst.
In other news, one of the books I've been working on stalled, because it's an upsetting kind of book (do I make any other kind? No. But this one is a bit too soon) but work
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I just logged on to dA for the first time in a long time, thus only read this journal tonight. I'm sorry I didn't bring any of our feral wildlife to Canada, but if you ever make it to Australia I promise to take you to at least two different wildlife sanctuaries and zoos!