Just made this film last night. Spent two hours painting over an old Cingular network map. I have no idea why I was so detailed with it, because it’s not entirely necessary. It was kind of soothing and at least now it’ll be really convincing. Anyway, the print is for an exchange called Love + Misplacement. It’s about long distance relationships and is tentatively called “It’s All Downhill From Here” (haha, I crack myself up). There are five more layers (three text layers, background, an image in gloss). I’m really excited to print this, but I don’t know when I’m going to. I’m really glad that process is so calming to me.

A page from a book that I’m making for Letterpress. The assignment is actually a xerox book (a way for us to focus more on concept rather than technique), so I’m spending more time considering all of the pages rather than running around trying to print them on time. This is only two pages out of 64 (sixty-four!). I’m about half-way done right now. I’m working with the idea of discomfort and how much information I choose to reveal about myself. I am creating maps of what is revealed versus what is covered up – perhaps an abstract method of calculating my discomfort? I’ve written so many pages about this and yet I don’t feel like I completely explain it. Scatterbrained.

From the sketchbook, collage sketches. Thinking about the xerox book.

Two sketchbooks for two separate projects. Inevitably, I will come up with ideas for a completely different project than the one I’m brainstorming for. Keeps it organized this way.

My desk, which is very small.

There aren’t very many weeks left in the semester, which seems so strange because it still feels like we’re just beginning. Next thing I know, I’ll have graduated and I won’t know what to do with myself! It always works out in the end, but this transition period is pretty awful.