In MFA-world, we called it Post-Partum-Show-Depression, that every time you have an exhibition, you celebrate and then completely crash. The feeling can last anywhere from a day to months. I’m sure we all experience it in different ways–you spend months, years, latelatelate nights churning out this beast, show it off, go on a celebratory bender for however many days you have friends in town, and then you come home in the evening and look at your desk that is no longer covered in horsehair, silk, wax, or paper scraps. “now wut?”
What to do? The dishes that have piled up, not that you’ve had the time to cook a proper meal all month. Sort through your bedroom floor’s mountain of dirty clothes blending into the clean clothes you were too lazy to put away. Scrub that shower curtain. oh, right, and remember what it means to take care of yourself again: cooking (for real though), hot yoga, returning social phone calls, getting more than 3-4 hours of sleep. it’s totally glorious! not spending Friday nights with your creative cohorts at the hardware store? amazing.
This time around, the post-terrain-malaise only lingered for ~48 hours. not bad! It certainly helped that my old studiomate and BFF Mandy came for the festivities, so instead of nursing my headache (and liver) under the covers all day, we had our little nerd-out slumber party and talked shop and offset artist books, gossiped about boys, drank recovery smoothies, and shared food stories. I’m thinking about my next drawings and some upcoming deadlines, but for now it’s nice to be slooooow.
So, you know I have a Tumblr for dumping all things inspirational/cats/sharks/90’s/venn diagrams. I mostly source from other art blogs (BTdubs: biiiiiggggesssstttt tumblr/blogosphere pet peeve: NOT SOURCING THE ARTIST WHEN YOU’RE TRYING TO SHOW OFF SOMETHING COOL. HATE YOU GUYZ. SOURCE THAT SHIT, OKAY) and through the usual sleepy-internet-metaclicking we all do, I found this great art blog by Siong Chin. I like his blog more than the usual Art Dump Blogs (fecalface/boom/ffffffffffffffound/beautiful decay/brightstupidconfetti/etc.) because it’s way narrative and personal, and not just a “oh here is something cool to look at, peace”. It’s easy to wander into Twee-land when you’re doing stuff like this, and he keeps his posts poignant, candid, and sincere.
how about some Hexagon updates for ya:
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