And it's an ironic enough name y'know? Because Since I started in September I have been doped with euphoria 5 days a week!
From as far back as I can remember art has been my bag, you have sport kids and smart kids and so forth but art was my thing. From designing kites out of carrier bags to fly out my window at night to drawing the retrospectively questionable (but nonetheless well received) comic "Spankman" I've always been making and drawing and crafting crafty crafts (I'm not saying any of this stuff was noteworthy, but you can't fault my consistency!). In secondary school I got on bad terms with my new french teacher because on her first day I drew vines all over her seating plan, every school book I've ever owned is thoroughly tattooed in Biro drawings, I passed out after my craft exam during my leaving cert - I'M JUST THAT INTENSE! My point is, I'm at home when I'm making stuff and that's what first year in LSAD is all about.
This year they shook up the whole first year system, before it was like a portfolio course and they covered all the core areas - colour, texture, 3d and so on, and that's what I was expecting. This year however, they gave us a brief, a general idea and direction and - they let us off. Away. Freedom. Whatever our startled hearts desired. DRUNK WITH POTENTIAL AND HUNGOVER WITH DIZZYING FREEDOM!
The brief - Your relationship with your urban environment.
DING DING DING DING! I was onto a winner. I've lived in Limerick city my whole life, it's not the biggest city in the world but we have all the basics - street justice, yop drinkin knackers, river island, Holland and Barrett... everything! Plus I was big into what I can only describe as the gothy/emo scene from about 15 which involved hanging out in town and slinking around the city at every possible opportunity. So I feel pretty tuned in to the whole concept.
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| My desk, my starfleet command, my dojo |
So at the moment I'm wrasslin' with the idea of urban armour, the things people do to protect themselves in the city, but I'm trying not to focus on things like carrying weapons, more like the clothes people wear or listening to music on their headphones and such. I'm a little bogged down by an absence of technical skill but I'm throwing myself at it like Brucie threw himself at that cake in Matilda (I love a good Brucie reference, he's like my spirit guide!)
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| YOU CAN DO IT BRUUUUCE |
I do this Brucie throwing in studio four, which I share with about 27 other young creators. In all honesty I wanted to change my studio the first week I was there, I thought that maybe a studio with some mature students would be more intimidating and force me to bring my A game - No need, no need. The stuff my studiomates are coming out with is mind blowing - A full scale replica phone booth, Ghost plaster casts, knitted vines, photo real architectural studies, origami motherboard stars... Kanye West Jesus!? (If anyone from s4 is reading this and I haven't mentioned their stuff, I know your stuff, it scares me with its genius!!)Plus we play block rocking music and sometimes the studio smells like weed! And I can't forget the studios resident cloud - Brian. Brian, I love you. Brian is an artist of remarkable skill with the attention span of a chinchilla on speed, some memorable Brian moments so far have been when He said he didn't come to school because he now has 15 TV channels, when he said he didn't like anything unless it was sexy and when he wrote the word desire in white chocolate!
That's all I'll say for now. Art college makes me happy, like the kind of happy where its not too difficult to get up at 7 on an Arctic November morning to go to school, where an hour long lecture flies by and you actually want to hear more and where you walk around smiling for no particular reason. I've never felt like this before in my life, maybe that's why I'm so affected by it, but the reason matters not.
I am happy in LeSAD.
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