so... now that thanksgiving break is over... i'm back to making as little work as possible as it always seems. i worked quite hard over break to come up with very little in the end. i still can't get the cyanotypes on glass to work (though i am trying a new thing tonight...) and i wasted a whole $90 bottle of liquid light trying to do more fabric peices but none of the worked out. i got the images that i expose through the fabric to work... but no fabric peices. i think i may need to check the expiration date on the liquid light though... but i doubt i could get a refund now that it's gone, anyways. bleah. at least i got some portraits taken.

well one way or the other very little is going to get done until christmas break. it's amazing how much school gets in the way of your education. i also have to have a comittee meeting soon.... and i just don't want it. it's not that i don't want feedback... i think it is that i have been getting too much. I went to the SPE conference and had 2 portfolio reviews, then the week before break i had to give a presentation on my work in the grad seminar class, and then recieve about 20 people's written responses which are still filtering in one by one. plus it seems when i get so bogged down with critiques i stop working... and that would be aweful right now. i have a show in a few months, that has to be good and i don't have much to draw from right now. so i think i am going to go into it with the "i really don't care what you think, and i'm just going to do what i do" kind of attitude, mostly as defense for myself, for my ability to continue working well over break, and for my own personal stress level... which has been far too high. it may seem like an aweful strategy, but it's all i got right now. i just need to make it to the end of this semester.

*sigh* sorry that was a bit long, but that's what's going down for me. i will hopefully be posting things soon though!