Today someone in my sculpture class asked me what artists I liked. I couldn’t answer him and that shocked me. I had lots of names swimming around in my head but I was struggling to think of a single artist whom I feel my work is connected to AND of whom I am more than casually familiar with. I just couldn’t answer him. He asked me if I liked Coke or Pepsi and I told him neither, and that I liked root beer. I think there’s a lot to that answer. It’s been harder for me to find the root beer. But mostly, it’s been hard for me to find the time.<\/p>\n
I’ve gotten to know the works of many painters, but not many artists that are doing whatever it is that I’m doing. This is a problem that stems from just having zero down time. I spend every “free” moment either trying to read for my next weekly paper, doing updates to the LRVS<\/a> website, or our twitter<\/a>, playing with Juniper, or trying to frantically get caught up on my sculpture class work, or trying to give my mentor the time and energy she deserves from me so I can glean the knowledge I need to get out of her. I study when I eat, I update the website while I am on the pot, and I read until I fall asleep. I even study during Juniper’s bedtime. There isn’t any space in my life to do the deep inquiry I desperately need to be doing so that I feel more anchored in my own artistic practice. So, I add this to my To Do List: Make a list of artists who’s work is in the realms of what I’m trying to do and do some research on each one. I pile this to do list on top of all the other to do lists and add a to do item to sort and order my to do lists. Obviously this is not happening and I just have to try to stay strapped in and get as much done as I can.<\/p>\n I’m dog paddling up white water rapids. I only pause here momentarily as an attempt to catch my breath. Five more weeks until winter break. Then we start up all over again in January. I AM enjoying the ride at least. Then again, I’ve always been a glutton for punishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today someone in my sculpture class asked me what artists I liked. I couldn’t answer him and that shocked me. I had lots of names swimming around in my head but I was struggling to think of a single artist whom I feel my work is connected to AND of whom I am more than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6805"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6809,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6805\/revisions\/6809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}