“Faces”

faces
This week we found ourselves at a gallery opening called faces inside the Tempe Center for the arts. Our assignment was to go through the exhibit and choose one of the faces that we felt was the most accurate depiction of ourselves for the semester. I chose the following picture above. Below are a few highlighted reasons of why choose this particular piece.


Gears are turning. (lots of ideals lots of creativity)

Being back in college as a student for the first time in over 10 years feels great. Every day I’m feeling more creative alive and inspired than I have in quite some time. It seems like just being in a creative environment and being around other creative people makes me feel more. Creative.

Pressure of dealines and amount of work is quite overwelming.

I also choose this piece for the fact that the subject seems to be falling apart. This new found creativity also comes with the heavy price tag of stress, frustration and overwhelmed since unpreparedness. This is a journey that I have chosen to take! There were times during the semester when, just like this painting, I felt like I was going to crack.

As I start to establish systems I’m getting better at dealing with this new workload.

But even under this immense amount of pressure I begun to establish systems and methods that make what seems like a ridiculous amount of work manageable. Towards the end of the semester my brain seems to be running on autopilot.

Frame work that everthing needs to work in.

Even the fact that this feature is framed could be symbolic of the “framework” that all of the pieces for my masters project needs to fit in. This overall balancing act of creativity stress deadlines and process most accurately sums up this semester. Hopefully by the end of next semester all of these things will work together like a well constructed machine.

I guess even creativity has a certain level of responsibility. The funny thing is, without these unusual demands on my time, I honestly wonder if i would be productive with my time. At the end of the day, just like in this piece, there may be apparent stress but everything right now in my life seems to fit together.