Tell me to Get it Together

I am not sure how I can start to talk about the experience of my Senior year. It seemed flying by fast but also a long year full with growth, struggles, stress, and accomplishment. It was a wonderful year thanks to all of the peers and faculty. From working on resume, public talk to branching out in medium to creating something for the show to opening to artist talk last week, I have learned so much from all of you and also myself. As I mentioned in the talk, the biggest lesson I learned this quarter was about how to create something simple. It was something hard for me to give and gain. Because of the breakthrough, it is my main direction after the show. Like I said, I am going to focus on the figure until I can't deal with her anymore. I am trying to make her the best of best, and I think there is a lot of potential for that. 

About the feedback from this quarter, I want to start with the positive. I really appreciate all the visiting artists and critiques. It has been a wonderful balance between hearing back from strangers and faculty. I also really enjoyed the individual faculty meeting this quarter. It was helpful to hear different feedback through a deeper personal conversation. For possible improvement, I think the miscommunication between the studio and the gallery was disappointing. It is obvious that both are professional and have reasonable concerns, but the communication was not as professional as I hoped. Maybe next year there should be several meetings with everyone together involved in the show. It just seemed that communicating in person would be the best way to go because it was bringing misunderstandings through emails and our words were misunderstood. 

Talking about what have we been doing since the opening of Composite, I have been working figuring out life and by that, I meant I have been searching jobs/internships. It has been a stressful a few weeks trying to understand myself: where I want to be next year and what I want to do there. It is starting to get exciting as an ending is coming fast. (Holy! next week!) The website and the resume are all updated and the cover letter is in progress. I have also branching out doing some marketing commission piece for business. As far as studio works go, I am experimenting more in mixed media (of course I am experimenting). 

Last but not least, I want to again thank you all for helping and growing with us. It has been a crazy process to look back on. I am not very good at wording, but the fact that I have been emotional thinking about 4 years of growing from non-art major to full-time BFA said how much I care about being here and how proud I am to be a BFA. It will be a difficult goodbye for sure, so please tell me to get it together if you see me crying. Here is an unlimited amount of hugs from me.