This week was busy, busy busy. It’s strange, every time I go to class, they give me more work to do. Imagine that? I am really relieved that I quit my job because I still don’t have enough time to do everything. I’m just chugging away like the little engine that could, and trying to relax. I taught myself how to do knotless netting (the photo is of the first few rows, which made a nice hat for orangy) and I’ve been netting away today. It’s a pretty fun liittle stitch and it makes me feel like I’m stringing together a million little pretzels together. And due to a couple readings (Parmenides, Zeno, and DesCartes Meditations 1&2) from earlier in the week, I came to the conclusion that since we know Preztels exhist, and since we now that all things in the universe are made of the same thing, we must conclude that everything in the universe is made of pretzels.
This textiles class is really getting under my skin. It’s funny too, I was really thinking I had made a bad choice by signing up for textiles instead of monotyping. Tom had enough wisdom to see that I was nuts to think it wouldn’t have relevance in the rest of my work. I’m finding it has much more relevance than I could have ever imagined without jumping right in. This week I “wound my warp” getting ready to start to weave my first tapestry. My piece is going to be related to the machines series I’ve been working on and I’m excited to see what happens when it’s translated into a new medium.
I’m really loving school. It’s a lot of time, but everything I am doing, I am enjoying. Even tedious painting of very flat, graphicy designs, and even making panels or stretching canvas, things I’ve already done a million times before. Monday I drew an abstract drawing in class that I thought was going to be so dull, but once I saw it up on the wall, and saw that I was able to give it energy and grace, I felt so proud of myself. Every little project I have at school, I’m going to try for that, even if I think it’s a dull assignment, I’m going to try to make it as beautiful and special as I can. I’m here to make the most of my talents. Just following assignments like a robot ain’t gonna cut it.