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$1644.75 That would be the bill for my new camera. Months of work. a Canon EOS 20d. It sexes me like nothing else (except of course the darkroom). My AP Art class is...improving? Who knows. I feel a little less smothered (with scathing looks and comments) and a little more...free?  It all kinda started when I created this terrible piece in acrylics and pine wood (I've been experimenting in new media and, well, I suck). It was SUPPOSED to be the culmination of what had become a very theraputic study in minimalism.  My perspective was somewhat jarred by the experience of having to present a "work" (if you could call it that) that I really h

I have recently met a great deal of static from various art instructors at my high school, but it has only motivated me to show them that I will not roll over and die, Art is in my blood, and I can circumvent them. So the Zulu project was a quick answer to their apprehensions that I may be a do-nothing, and I think it was effective. I'm learning a lot and growing by leaps and bounds, I feel...but I'm still shitting myself about Herron. I don't know if I can survive in so rigorously utopic (to me) an environment as art school. We shall see, won't we... Anyway, I hope you enjoy the Zulus and the silhouettes of Chris. He's one of the most expr

Here I am with a new account and a new lease on Art. Previously under my former alias, I found myself dissatisfied and restless with my own creative energy--one such restlessness that always begets metamorphosis--and took a sabbatical from the art world, putting all photographic endeavors on hold and contemplating other media once more.  Upon slow and deliberate contemplation, I have come to believe I have been far too hopeful, too presumptuous, too pretentious in the past, and have fully realized my novicedom... I hope to grow as an artist as I have grown as a person these passing months:  with striking momentum; humbled; and as I become m