Guest Speaker and The Professional World1/14/08

We had a great speaker from Graphic Design talk and answer questions about blogging. What i learned from this was that there are always many ways to accomplish something in the world og blogging. Mr Tslentis was very friendly and helpful I especially liked what he said about learning to learn. This is the whole point of education for me. Artist are curious by nature and it is necessasry for us to know how to think things through and to discover relevant questions and solutions to prblems. training the mind is key in the discovery of ourselves and our true work.
woking in the professional art work for a living instilled in me many of the topics in the discusiion of art Reality and The Professional World. The reality is tough and has it's own set of rules and challenges. i have several bodies of work I have accumulated over the years and now need a way to exhibit these to complete the cycle including an audience. until now much of my work has stayed hidden from public view perhaps due to my own timid insecurities about exposing my self in these works, no excuse I know. another great art mag is called High Fructose -mostly illustartive but very cutting edge and outside of the mainstream. Speaking of journals i've got acollection of those too. Perhaps I will scan some pages and do a seperate littelblog on journaling. hmm. One instance that really gave creditabilty to journaling was an exhibit i saw in NYC of Peter Beards phots and journals and artifacts from his years shooting fashion in Africa.
mostly my work can be descibed as photography mixed media. I also incorporate painting and use of resins to encase objects and photos. i guess audience for me is a big issue nad I really need to spend some time searching out gallery spaces and other non-traditional places that i can exhibit my work i am coming to realize that the cycle begun with the inspiration is not complete until the work is viewd by people. I do believe that this incompletion can manifest in the artist(myself) as depression and anxiety. Two things I would like to avoid.