Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Disregard this.

I've decided to write because I'm freakin' out and I need something to calm me down. I'm operating on binary right now: super mellow and crazy frantic. I don't want to be crazy frantic, but super mellow doesn't do anything for me either. There needs to be some middle ground, but in the middle of all these assignments, it's pretty hard to find. I start working, and things get hectic. I take a break, and things come to a standstill. I need some way of doing things until they're done--focusing on one thing at a time, prioritising--all that nice stuff they taught you in high school. But my goodness everything comes at once and I spend too much time enjoying my day to get at it! My wheels are spinning, dudes and ladies. My brain is too fast and my body is too slow. I can't articulate my ideas because there's so much in my head. Good gracious, this isn't helping at all. It's been a long time since I've felt this complete shut-down stress. I think it got completely out of hand with that new sculpture assignment: build something massive with 8-foot planks. I don't know how to build! I've never built anything in my life! The only "training" I got was a half-hour lecture on what to do if your fingers get cut off in the woodshop. I think the problem here is one of demographic. All the other people in my class have had extensive experience in the field of sculpture; they entered this class because they're passionate about sculpting, carving, and building. I, on the other hand, joined because I needed a 3-d class to pass first year and I didn't want to do 3-d fibre. Ahaha! Look where my idea of a :slack class" got me!

4 comments:

Kesineeee said...

man...here's to hoping your fingers don't get cut off. You should make some tea. Tea is calming and stimulating at the same time! Your sculpture will look sweet, I know it. Love youu!!!

Hermit said...

Ergy, poor Nomad. I hope things get better for you stress-wise here topspeed. In the meantime, to assist with time-wasting (but I am telling myself this isn't completely irresponsible because it is art relevant :[) thought you might find this interesting:
http://www.woostercollective.com/2007/10/shit_were_diggin_the_laundry_detergent_p.html
Hermy

Redcard Sanchez said...

Oh my goodness! I couldn't copy and paste the whole thing, but I got to the homepage and it's wonderful. I especially like the "If the water reached this level, we wouldn't need this bridge" one. Thank you hermy!

Hermit said...

Haha yes, that one made me exceptionally happy. The one I was attempting to paste was the fancy laundry detergent paintings that only show up under black light. I think it was before the bridge one so maybe you saw it.
Hermit