Comments | missdischord: they make you stand real still in a real small space while they chart up your insides

missdischord

they make you stand real still in a real small space while they chart up your insides

Oct 18, 2005 22:24

i had the worst critique of my life last night. worst. i went second of seven, which meant i had to hold my composure for two more hours cause fucked if i'll cry in front of the faculty and all the while every prof was coming up to me asking if we "could talk more one on one later?". and i'm like WHAT ELSE COULD YOU POSSIBLE HAVE TO SAY, ESPECIALLY ( Read more... )

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churchie October 19 2005, 05:46:35 UTC

boo. boooo them. you're fucking gorgeous. fuck them.

it's always amazing to me how devastating and masochistic it can seem to be working in the arts. getting a c on a paper is NOTHING like being told that something intensely personal to you which you put your heart and soul into, like art or music or some sort of performance or whatever is not nearly as great as you thought it was. i don't say that to be depressing, i'm just saying that you're not overreacting. it's much more difficult to be criticized on the manifestation of your creative genius than perhaps on anything else. i'm sorry about the shit day though. cheer up:) you're statistically certain to do something phenomenally brilliant at some point in your young life. i can feel it. the statistical certainty. mmmm.

deirdre84 October 19 2005, 08:54:39 UTC

I love you.

lizz612 October 19 2005, 11:24:10 UTC

I love you, too.

milkyrosie October 19 2005, 11:43:53 UTC

In case enough people haven't already stated the obvious, here it is: You are beautiful and talented and too good for them to handle. We will get them back. Next time make fire coral that will eat their hands. Try finding that in the bath section of Target.

churchie October 19 2005, 18:42:02 UTC

lol rosie you have an absolutely thrilling vicious side to you and i love it:)

missdischord October 23 2005, 18:14:10 UTC

the next incarnation of the coral will most definitely be hostile.

creedo_p October 19 2005, 15:16:53 UTC

As Henry Rollins says, "It'll destroy you if you try to make it mean anything to anyone but yourself."

I've been exactly where you are, and it stings. I realized that the faculty is extremely biased at SMC, and all my peers loved my work and that's what mattered to me. The faculty kept wanting me to work BIG, paint, comment on some stupid worldly problem, etc etc. I said FUCK YOU, I went down my own road, and it takes a lot of hard work but you'll find your place eventually, trust me. If you ever need some some good ol' fashioned solidarity or advice on your artwork, hit me up - I'm here for you.

Besides, you're way more industrious and enthusiastic than I was my senior year and even I'm still kickin.