Here is some of my work at the time of my crit. I made an apple dispenser and ate lots of apples and resolved the tall house-like structure, it's not done yet but at a point of resolution.





I made it through my first semester of grad school. The thought of that sounds crazy to me because I feel like I only started yesterday. However, if I think of everything that I have learned and made it seems a lot longer. At first I was completely overwhelmed by all the intellectual people at the school and the fact that we were being forced by default to analyze and then verbalize what we were making. Now, it may still be overwhelming sometimes but I realized that I wasn't letting my process go free and that was why I was struggling so much. Every piece of successful art I have ever made is because I let my intuition run the process and my work becomes what it is because of what happens intuitively when I'm making it. So, I need to combine the intuition and free process with being a little more deliberate about why I choose the materials I use, what I make etc. but not allow myself to feel too controlled. This is the challenge.

I'm off the the mountains for a month...can't wait! Happy Holidays to anyone who reads this!