Studying Art (20) – some loose thoughts…

Being ‘graduate’… I mean, how ridiculous it feels…
Being ‘graduate’ in Fine Art… I mean, one cannot get it more absurd… There is no ‘graduating’ from art, unless one can ‘graduate’ in ‘being a human being’…
Having first show, first chat with a journalist, first reviews from the public – at once one’s is able to see [...]

Studying Art (18) – Getting over it…

What a year it was… I mean – not easy one… In fact – bl…y difficult…
Studying art is a bit like diving in Le Grand Bleu… further down, the less light and more dense matter… Waters around get less inviting, more frightening and yet – strangely captivating, with that pulsating, magnetic force, which commands you [...]

Studying Art (15)- A Fire Runs Through It…

A Fire Runs Through It.
Originally uploaded by ms4jah
I’m becoming obsessed by the fire…
The primordial force of no earthy origin.
Of captivating beauty, forever sublime, even in its ashes and fumes…
The spiritual depth, the emotional fever, the power of human and nature’s genius…
The most mesmerizing epitome of the liminal and the paradoxical – consuming and supporting [...]

Studying Art – Diary (13) – What now?

Perhaps it’s the more popular question to be asked by an artist than one can imagine – What now? I have got, indeed, a creative, exciting period of discoveries and found solutions – but – what now? I have been praised and supported, despite my oddities – but -  what now? I have been pushing [...]

Studying Art (10)- The Crisis

Crisis (Oxford Dictionary 2008):
a time of intense difficulty, trouble, or danger : the current economic crisis | a family in crisis
• a time when a difficult or important decision must be made : [as adj. ] a crisis point of history.
• the turning point of a disease when an important change takes place, indicating either [...]

Crawford College of Art Graduates’ Exhibition (2008)

There is one special week in the whole year, when my college (Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland – see photo below) changes beyond any recognition. Cluttered studios are being cleared, stained in all colours of a rainbow (and mud) walls are painted in a laboratory white, all sorts of artistic experiments don’t obstruct corridors [...]

Studying Art – Diary (7)

First year of a truly personal work (and 2nd of BA Fine Art degree) has just finished – I mean, in an ‘official’ meaning of the word, since anyone lucky enough and doomed enough, who is even mildly familiar with art studying, accepts as a matter of fact the perpetual, omnipresent nature of it. [...]

Studying art – Diary (6)

Second term of the second year is no more… it’s ceased to be, passed away and gave up its ghost. We – majority of students – are emerging from it like from a tough, inequitable battle, some with bruises and scratches only, some with deep wounds, nobody unaffected. The truth is that nothing could [...]