Patience for the Renaissance...

The birth of Venus.

Vintage myth - These places are crawling with bedbugs.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. - Milton Berle

Art is such a wonder thing and discussions within the four walls of Foundation make me question all the time... 'What is art? Who are Artists? What makes there work Art'. the 'A' word is a word that is questionable on many levels and that captures me and I do wish someone knew the answer...

October half term came and went, leaves came and went. Autumn is on it's way and I am getting prepared for everything that is coming!! October half terms have been apart of my life since Primary school all those years ago and this one is my last! Now you'd expect me to be doing something exciting but that is where the optimism ends... I was sat for days writing an essay on 'How the human figure is represented in the Renaissance', I had to look at 6 different pieces of work from this period to which I knew nothing about, analysing them with there composition and the shapes. I found this essay hard but interesting, as an artist anything and everything can influence future work and looking at an Art period that existed back in the 14-17th Century makes you look at where we were and where we are now and the gap that separates them and the work that been created and developed in that time. The line '-' that tells us so much, who knew that something so small would do so much...

The essay was completed after a lot of hard work and research, I found the idea of near naked beings compelling and made me question the nature of the works.
In other news, now that I am back at College I have been finishing off from folder work in terms of reflective practice for both ceramics and paper projects. This involves evaluating each project and looking at the good and bad points, things I could of done better and improvements!
This has to be done in the next day so that the new project can begin which I am looking forward studying and posting about!!

Personal life...
Not much is going on at the moment, Sister is coming home for her reading week which I am exited about and very much looking forward to and spending time in coffee shops and catching up! Glen's birthday on Thursday and I haven't been shopping yet which I again am looking forward to, I do hope Christmas is good this year as last year it was perfect. They do say, 'you never beat perfection' but every Christmas is different and I have to embrace them despite the circumstances. Harvey the cat is also doing well, seen a few bits on QVC that he will love so better get his kitty Christmas list sorted!! I have started reading a lot more also nowadays and feel it enables me to be transformed to a different world.