Ireland – the Odyssey
It has been said that the Irish landscape is the one factor that molds the Irish people, and through them, the arts that have emerged from the Emerald Isle. On the bus trip from Dublin to Achill Island we’ve passed … Continued
Candidacy Review
Today I had the much awaited candidacy review, an important critique with a group of faculty from different departments in the School of Visual Arts. The candidacy is the test one must pass before one can call herself an MFA … Continued
New Prints
I tried out the laser printer at school yesterday. Every run of the laser produced a little tiny flame and a lot of smoke, but the wooden plate that got engraved came out really well, smelling like the outdoors. After … Continued
Making of – 6
The sixth module of the Making of an Idea series is finished. I used a very different kind of paper for this one: oil paper, or paper treated especially to withstand oil painting without having to be primed. It’s very … Continued
Bastard Child
This drawing was created as the first in the Consciousness project series, the first in the spring before I started graduate school, so of course, the school will not accept this drawing as part of my work, and I can’t … Continued
New Website
I was unpleasantly surprised to find that when I entrusted “experts” to transfer my website to a different host, they had lost the entire content of my previous website in the process. So basically I had nothing after they did … Continued