What a Week

What an insane week it has been-  mostly internally and mentally. Iv’e reevaluated my entire vision for how I’m going to present my thesis, and it’s been a struggle since Tuesday, but I think I’ve finally come to terms with it. It’s funny how that first idea you fall in love with is so hard to shake. What would have been smarter would be to come up with at least 5 ideasyou love before making a choice, because hearing that even one person thinks there’s a better option is both devastating, confusing and eye-opening.

I did a ton of asking around, gaining advice from helpful classmates, family and semi-strangers, and seeing their opinion on my poster idea, which was either love or hate I found, was a huge turning point in this entire process for me.

I haven’t stopped sketching, even driving home from school in the car, I couldn’t help but have a notepad on my lap, scrawling ideas down at red lights. My biggest struggle and growing pain about having my work up as separate pieces has been that I don’t want people to just think I did some portraits.

I need to be able to show that there’s a bigger picture, that they’re connected, and having my pieces on their own in frames just didn’t cut it for me. I had to have more; I have to be able to let people know, on first glance, that there’s a mystery and that these pieces relate somehow, that they’re a story, and so began the nights and days spent scrawling layout ideas on anything I could find.

I’ve come to a conclusion that I think I’m happy with and it feels good to be here. I’ve come up with those 5 ideas I love now, and have plucked what I think is the best one.

We’ll see how it goes! Below are some photos that are self-explanatory, ahaha.