One of the best parts of going to a art show is not only the art hanging on the walls but the people around them. The other week we went to the pcac gallery and saw the bfa exhibit and even though I really enjoyed the show it was the girl running the front dest that left the strongest impression on me. She was sitting at her dest littered with piles of magazine clippings and assorted junk along with a glue stick, some scissors and a simple leather bound journal. She was putting together a journal not for some class or to get into grad school but just because she wanted to. It seems like all to often we do work to get by. We take the path that is allotted for us by the school, our parents, and our friends. Even though she is forced to sit at a desk she found something productive, more importantly, something that keeps her sane. Below in my artist statement I wrote "Id rather be taking photos right now" and this partakes to this frustration. Not only that Im assigned to take finite math and restricted to three photo classes but that in my free time I seek little to no productive steps towards becoming a photographer. Classes have conditioned my brain to seeing these works as homework when they should be my alternative to checking facebook. And that even as I write this I will almost just a quickly forget my new aspirations and go to click around addictingames.com
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