4 years trough art academy

instead of a personal blog I will use this blog for my studies at the art academy St. Joost in 's Hertogenbosch. I will start with my notes on a project which focusses on triggering your senses.

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proces

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de verbeterde versie van de vervuilde natuur beleving. filmpje volgt hierna

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1ste opzet voor onze zintuigelijke beleving na brainstormen over wat we gingen doen. Hier zie je een ruimte bestaand uit losse wanden. Er staan kliko’s voor de stank en je kijkt naar een filmpje van de natuur en je hoort natuur. Maar het stinkt enorm. Dit om de vervuiling te verbeelden van de natuur, dat het er mooi uit ziet maar eigenlijk is de natuur helemaal vervuild

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afbeeldingen gemaakt ter onderzoek v gebouw

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Opdr 1 groepsverband

Onderzoek doen door de school heen waarmee we zintuigen zouden kunnen prikkelen. veel fotos gemaakt en bedacht wat we er mee zouden kunnen. Ook al nagedacht over welke richting we uit willen gaan, namelijk de richting van natuur en vervuiling e.d.

aantekeningen: - tegenstelling - Het beeld vervagen door gezicht belemmering. Je kant het vervagen door het licht of door het beeld op een niet helder materiaal te plaatsen. - Foto’s of beeld verkleinen

Licht herhaling door het beeld te herhalen en zo ook licht

Lucht door airco Gang met wind

Afval op de grond

Puur geluid door je eigen beweging

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As promised (and very delayed, sorry!!) the pictures of Vienna.

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I quit

Sooo been a long time again since I have blogged. Had a tough time in figuring out what I want to do with my education, quit or just continue? My parents were pretty much pressuring me in making a decision. 

I was thinking about quitting the education I was following but my parents were all about how that was a waste of money and that i would be a bad idea because what was i going to do after i quit. Well that didn’t really help and I felt pretty shit for a week, I mean if I want to quit this education because it is not what I want, then that’s my decision to make! 

After a talk with my mentor at school she gave me the advise to write a letter to my parents. So I did and wrote down everything I wanted to do and how I felt so bad about the discussion we had. And a couple of days later they received the letter and responded very well. They apologized and said they never wanted to hurt my feelings and pressure me in to a decision. 

Instant relieve after their response, felt so much better. The decision has been made, I am quitting and I am going to take a sabbatical year to find out what I really want to do. Also thinking about traveling for a couple of months, see the world for a bit. Then I’ll be ready to continue my education. (If anyone has any tips for travel spots or countries where to go to, let me now!)

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Vienna

So in two weeks I have my second exam week.. Still in doubt if this is the education I want so I’m having a hard time to keep myself motivated.

I did came to rest after the christmas holidays! I celebrated christmas mostly with my family in law and celebrated new year in Vienna with my parents and sister.

If you are an architecture lover or history lover then you really need to go there! We went to visit a flea market near our appartment and there was so much old stuff to buy. You could buy coins out of the roman age, newspapers and letters made and sent during WWII. And they were very cheap, I spent around 7 Euro’s for 3 letters and a newspaper. 

The thing I loved most about Vienna is the architecture and history. You can see that Austria was, and still is, a traditional and wealthy country. The architecture screams wealth, and the architecture goes from Jugendstil, to the 19th century glass and steel, and of course the Baroque style of buildings for the Kaisers (emperors). 

The baroque style palaces for the Kaisers and Kaiserinnen are the most representative for the tradition in Austria. If you look around near the palace, museums and shopping centre you almost feel like everything is too expensive and above your status. But i guess that was the purpose when they were build. 

And the last thing that wondered me was the adoration of Kaiser and Kaiserin  Franz and Sissi. I am going to assume they don’t need an explanation. Otherwise you should look it up and watch at least one of the three movies! Anyway, we visited the royal tombs and in front of their coffins there were candles, cards, flowers. All to proclaim their adoration and love for them. Everyone visited those tombs mostly for Sissi (and Franz of course but Sissi was more loved than him). To think that even today people still care so much about them. And personally I think that that adoration really shows how deep the Austrian history of tradition roots in society. 

I will post pictures later!

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The start of my story

It took me a long time trying to figure out how my blog was going to be named and what I will be posting. Recently I have been trough some big changes in my life and I decided I wanted to post about those events. I also happen to like drawing and sketching, so I also will be posting things I made. 

With this first post I want to share some struggles i am experiencing while starting my new education. I advance, apologies for the long post, but I hope you will read it and share you thoughts about it. Maybe give some tips if you’d like.

At the start of this school year I started following a 4 year long bachelor program about cultural heritage. It took me long enough to find this course in the first place, since I had no clue what to study next after my course media design. I didn’t want to work after that education. I hate working behind a pc all day from 9am till 5pm. I really liked art history though, but there was no bachelor program just for arts history.. So that wasn’t really an option. 

eventually after some time discussing this with my teachers during that education, and of course my parents, I came to the conclusion that I also liked museums and thinking about how to come up with- and create an exhibition. 

With that information I came out at the bachelor I am following now. Cultural heritage. After a few weeks I already noticed that it wasn’t really what i had expected. I thought there would be taught a lot of art history, and how to create an exhibition. But instead it was more cultural history (big difference), more technical stuff about exhibitions and housekeeping of collections in depots.

Sure it was and still is interesting, and I really like my workgroup. We laugh really hard about the dumbest jokes and often go out for drinks together. 

After these couple of months I am starting to notice that I really have a hard time motivating myself to do my homework and read the literature. I still go to every class and participate actively in them, but I feel a lot of doubt about it.

That doubt is really bothering me, and I don’t know how to act against it. I don’t want to quit my education because I don’t want to do nothing for half a year. And if i continue and finish the first year i have all my studypoints and I wil be able to follow any bachelor or college education I want.

During a talk with my study counselor about this issue, she said that if i don’t like this education, that it will be damn hard to keep motivating myself to finish my first year. So I really have to think hard about this if I will be able to keep on motivating my self to study, without exhausting myself. 

Now what am I going to do?? Or I push myself to finish this year, with risking exhaustion because I have to put to much effort in to it. Or I quit, and I wouldn’t have any idea what to do for the rest of the year. Plus I don’t have any idea about what kind of bachelor I would sign in for after that half year. I am going to have to make a decision though.. but what I don’t know yet.

Thank you for reading my story. I think that probably a lot of you also struggle with choosing an education. And If you also have struggles like this, I would like to invite you to share those with me (or with anyone else!). Share it in a repost or in a private message, whatever suits you. 

Because after typing this whole post I already feel relieved to have this story of my chest, and I hope maybe you too. :)

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experimenting with small animations, made this cutie