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My mind has been absolutely whirring for the past week and particularly over the weekend, perversely enough, about my MA. I haven’t even bitten into this last year of my BA yet, and I’m fretting about where to go, where to live, how I’ll manage childcare, and so on. Enough. At least offering this slice of OCD to the public will go some way towards clearing it from my mind and focusing on the task at hand.
The other issue that I’ve been knocking about between my ears is that of the end of year show. I want to bring it up tomorrow morning when we get together with the tutors, but I can foresee a bit of friction. In our group of ten, there are some who are more focused on continuing in the arts than others. While some others I can think of are definitely keen to create as impressive and productive a show as possible, some would probably be happy to make do with whatever the college throws down, as long as they don’t have to actually make any effort. The majority are floating betwixt, I imagine.
Raising the spectacle of the show so early might not make me terribly popular – more like the harbinger of doom – but it’ll be here before we know it, and we saw the last year’s BA group come up against all sorts of pitfalls and we should do our best to avoid them now. There’s the possibility of taking the exhibition off-site, questions around designing and printing the posters and invitations, and of course, fund-raising to pay for the whole thing.
The prospect of a whip-round probably won’t go down well, seeing as it would cut into some students’ budgets more significantly than others. And roll-ups aren’t getting any cheaper these days, so I’m led to believe. Call me a radical, but I’m hoping for something more exciting than another cake sale.
Apart from inciting to revolt, tomorrow I’ll be minding my own business as well, and discussing with the tutors my plans for my own work. I’ve put a few new experiments up on the studio wall to get me in the “making” frame of mind… and just to let ’em all know that I mean business this year…
