This semester has been fantastically busy. I'm overwhelmed. I stopped for a moment to photo log the current state of my studio. I am finishing up large format graphite drawing number three; one more to finish in studio before I move downtown to finish the largest of the drawings. I have started draft five of my thesis paper and I'm currently ( Read more... )

• Tue, 02:19: burned 407 calories doing 35 minutes of "Running (jogging), 6 mph (10 min mile)" #myfitnesspal

• Wed, 17:21: burned 76 calories doing 20 minutes of "Walking, 3.0 mph, mod. pace, walking dog" #myfitnesspal

• Tue, 18:49: burned 407 calories doing 35 minutes of "Running (jogging), 6 mph (10 min mile)" #myfitnesspal

• Wed, 12:39: burned 468 calories doing 40 minutes of "Running (jogging), 6 mph (10 min mile)" #myfitnesspal

• Tue, 02:23: burned 337 calories doing 32 minutes of "Running (jogging), 5.2 mph (11.5 min mile)" #myfitnesspal

   Last March, I read Caroline Knapp's Appetites: Why Women Want. Thus began the paring down of my large-scale drawings to my thesis theme. The revamped Goddess is a pop-culture icon and the movement that I equate with freedom via constraint and ritualistic obsession. A war within oneself to create the socially apropos version of a body. ( Read more... )

• Sat, 20:33: burned 483 calories doing 40 minutes of "Elliptical Trainer" #myfitnesspal
• Sat, 20:33: lost 1 pound since her last weigh-in! She's lost 3 pounds so far. #myfitnesspal

   The digital images have progressed to digital sequences in my mind. I want a narrative and I've altered the images in the first series to fit into a better saturation sequence. This has become about the bleeding in of color and saturation--the internal chaos of the female character being symbolically realized externally. There's one extreme ( Read more... )

   The first draft of my thesis proposal is complete and I'm anticipating at least one or two revisions over the next few days. The only parameters of the proposal are a title, descriptions of the intended work, the methods to achieve such, the relevance of this work to my development and one page in length. At the moment, I feel like the ( Read more... )