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Arlo Babenko's Art Blog (They/He) An artist from Almaty living in Rotterdam, Studying Fine Art in WdKA My work deals with how hard it can be to come to terms with the vulnerable nature of being alive and how dwelling on the past shapes how we live and adapt to the world around us.

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How to Skin a Museum and Take it Home, Digesting Institutions That Don’t Serve The Public Through The Lens of Taxidermy.

There are reasons taxidermizing people isn’t very popular.

Technical,

Ethical,

Moral,

and Legal Reasons.

 Fur preserves better than skin, and there’s so much you can hide behind the fluff[1], stitches and discolored skin, tell-tale signs of a reconstructed body[2]. A body being used beyond its original purposes. It doesn’t mean people haven’t tried to do the same to each other, but an animal hide will always hold better shape and color than fragile human skin. Sometimes it’s still not clear who’s seen as human and who’s recognized as animal.

The renaissance knew how to hide behind it’s beauty, posed white bodies, naked or dressed in extravagant fabrics of questionable origins. But these hoarded pictured don’t hold that background information like contemporary art does. Its all she said he said, proposed histories of why and who and where, which all can be brushed assigned by certain people for the sake of aesthetics.

See for yourself, look at how good the painting looks on your phone!

How good they look on fridge magnets,

                                                                    umbrellas,

                                                                               posters,

                                                                          coffee mugs,

                                                                                      t-shirts.

Small and big and grossly out of context,

 boiled down to souvenirs.  

“Who will gain notoriety and benefit from these images reentering the world in a new context, outside of the subcultures that created them?”[3]

Have you done Christmas shopping yet? Maybe pay closer attention in the gift shop then.

Modern art in a museum looks like a taxidermized human compared to a marbled figure is what I’m trying to saying. You may see the wrinkles and think about how your skin would look like affected by heavy chemicals. I think beyond not taxidermizing people because of aesthetics and newly discovered yet quickly deteriorating 21st morals, we don’t do it to avoid facing mortality. That’s just what I think. But they’ve also taxidermized an African warrior in the 18th century like he was an animal. That wasn’t done to face the white man’s mortality at all.

They put shoe polish on him for upkeep, to make him seem blacker than he was. When they finally returned him home, his shoe polished skin crumbled off his skull. They only what bones even managed to remain. [4]

Certain people taxidermy their pets. I can respect that. But is there a point in restructuring what we talk about and what we look at, just to keep the dead in a conversation that no longer needs to include them? I’m sure your dead cat won’t care if you make a decision that doesn’t include them. I’m sure you realize I’m not actually referring to dead pets.

You still seem uncomfortable talking about taxidermy pets? How so? Okay okay lets switch gears, I’m sure you’d appreciate a painting more.

I stand alone by the painting of Venus, falsely known as the birth of Venus, even though she is not depicted as being born, but that the wind has just brough her to the beach, after being born somewhere off the coast. It’s not the birth of Venus but her arrival.

When I stand in one spot long enough, the crowd around me swells like a river, but when I don’t look in the water, I start hearing. I follow groups of guides, friends pointing out different things to each other, and families reading out articles they found online. If I just keep standing the stream picks me up and caries me along. I go room to room following guided tours I did not pay for. How long can I tag along before they tell me to close my ears and not listen to the information I did not pay for? Or can they take pity on me and see that I’m all by myself?

If I stopped a group and said we could restructure how this whole thing works and turn it on its head, would they join me? [5]

Could I connive a whole museum to join me in collective play?

No

In cowardice I run away to familiar territory, an empty contemporary art museum. Where there’s play in the walls, but none in the space.

Is it so wrong to be Holding onto cameras tighter than each other?[6] To photograph the work more than you look at it?

Own everything you see. Take a picture for good measure. Collectively it feels strange not to.[7] Did you bring a knife? They take it away at the entrance anyways. Doesn’t matter, you can still grab the halls by the neck. Me and you, we can still preserve this museum the way we want to.

 Imagine the marble’s pulse faltering under your palm, sweat collecting in the columns. Imagine it for me, because you could never photograph that feeling of ownership and dominance. You could never, because an institution already has.

Skinning it is a messy business. In reality, you cannot take an institution home because it will degut the soul of your house.

As they say, don’t mix work and pleasure.

 As they say, do as I say, not as I do.

I take institutions home like they’re a one-night stand that won’t remember me, because they won’t. I won’t leave a lasting enough impact. Beautiful women whose time I’m wasting. Evil ones at that.

As they say don’t mix work and pleasure.

As they say do as I say, not as I do.

Afterword:

Quite frantically, I don’t know if this piece makes sense to anyone other than me. I’ve tried to condense and present in a metaphoric way my critiques of museums as institutions, and how easily the general public, especially those not as deep into the art world or it’s criticisms, follows the path that these institutions set out for us. That’s not to say I’m above it all. I write it while being desperately neck deep in it as well, enthralled and pretending not to be confused.

This train of thought was brought on by a trip to The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, being in a museum with beautiful art but physically feeling like I’m in an Ikea due to the large crowd, after which I went to Museu Novecento, a contemporary art museum, which was completely empty. This stark contrast made me upset and I started writing about why and how this phenomenon was happening, and this writing is my literary interpretation of that idea.

This term doing the Fluiding Together Sociology theory course I realized this confusion in theoretical texts is quite normal and widespread. A lot of critical theory is written in ways that is made completely inaccessible to those who don’t have at least a year of art theory below their belt. But this class has reinforced my belief that it doesn’t have to be this way, and we can write in ways that don’t reinforce the contemporary art bubble. We can make theory more accessible, and one way to do that would be through literary stories and poetry. And that’s the lens I’ve attempted to write through this piece.

References

Black, Hannah. "Go Outside ." Olufemi Workshop Readings (2025): 1.

Frank Westerman, external. The man stuffed and displayed like a wild animal. 16 September 2016. News Article . 10 December 2025.

The man stuffed and displayed like a wild animal

Thirty years ago, Frank Westerman was shocked to find an African warrior's body on display in a Spanish museum. Here he tells the story of h

Goldberg, Ariel. "Ovulars." (2019): 1-2.

Winant, Carmen. "Togethering ." This text accompanies Togethering, a video work by Carmen Winant produced as a companion piece to her publication Notes on Fundamental Joy (2020): 1-2.

Yang, Briana. Thinking about colonial institutions through a framework of hoarding . 15 March 2025. 12 December 2025.

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/muan.70001

[1] Physical and verbal

[2] Body of knowledge that has been deconstructed and restitched together so much that its origins would no longer be accessible to those to whom the concept is new

[3] Ovulars, Ariel Goldberg

[4] Frank Westerman, The man stuffed and displayed like a wild animal

[5] Hannah Black Go Outside

[6] Ovulars, Ariel Goldberg

[7] Briana Yang, Thinking about colonial institutions through a framework of hoarding

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Research Day 2: Visual Language Remains in Nuclear Spaces 

This day’s Research I wanted to get my hands into the drawing and explore what this visual language could be based upon. I started by looking at graffiti that started to appear in Pripyat, after Chernobyl, but after the radiation level started to go down a little. One style caught my eye, these green silhouettes of people, like radioactive ghosts of the town. The graphitis seem to depict young people playing football or maybe even dancing. It really caught my attention, and reminded me of the stone etchings of people’s shadows in Hiroshima. I also focused on the color, seemingly natural pigment but not quite. Definitely spray paint lol.

I made small studies of these works, trying to capture that blurry effect. Like a whisper of a person being there. 

I then decided to make a small study of one of the drawings in the Cave of Lascaux to see how the two studies could be similar or different. I realized I was using similar techniques to make both of the studies have that smoother blending look, and going in small circles.I found that the green hue around the black parts was a similar green in the graffiti as well. 

Looking at the colors made me think about leaning towards using pigments that have been synthesised and madmade, using it as a way for the nuclear people to demonstrate their superiority over nature, the concurred color, they concurred the atoms. Researching into what colors are synthesized nowadays, I realized it's like all of them at this point. Even synthetic ochres and browns which I’m associating with the past in this particular project. 

SYNTHETIC PIGMENTS OF THE NEW ERA

With the development of chemistry at the beginning of the XVIII century and especially actively in the second half of the XIX century, a wid

Nonetheless I’ve decided to experiment with leaning into using blues and purples since they are the least found in nature as bright colors, and potentially vibrants yellows and reds, those seem to be synthesized more. I’d also think about using white, like zinc white, as that was also developed within the last 300 years or so. Recent enough for me. 

Next I decided to look at Nuclear control panels. The language could be used to show what controls the atom, so showing the control panel seemed like a reasonable place to start. For this project, a lot of the inside workings of References of Nuclear Powerplants will come from the Zwantendort Nuclear Power plant in Austria. It was fully built and ready to be used, and then they asked the people what they wanted. In 1978, before its planned activation, 50.5% of the population voted against activating it. It was never activated, and now it is being used to train engineers, they hold tours, you can rent it to film or shoot something, and sometimes they hold parties there. Pretty cool if you don't think about how much money was used to make this happen. But at least we have a museum of the nuclear dream. 

Anyways I started drawing the panel and realized that most of it is tightly packed squares, incredibly similar to multiple of my previous projects. Squares follow my artistic practice wherever I go, kinda cool. I realized I can utilize drawing this square lattice to illustrate the chain reaction of the nuclear atom, which is something I was thinking of capturing in the language. Also feels like the square, or a perfect square is the farthest we can get from nature. A not so perfect square can be used to illustrate man's attempt to be perfect. Or like caging the circle of an atom into a square. Much to explore and think about. 

Then I decided to draw the inside of the Reactor. I realized most of them use water as a coolant, as well as boiling the water to create energy and I realized water should definity be include somewhere in there. 

Then I started thinking about the cave drawings again. Most demonstrated a lack of care to illustrate the humanoids, and a distinct lack of identifying features of the people portrayed. That got me thinking, would this Nuclear Language be selfless? Would the people include themselves in the work? Or would they be more proud in the work that they’ve created? Would they demand to be remembered on the same level as their work? Would the work they make be more important to them than being remembered individually? Something to definitely explore.

Street Art Around The Abandoned City Of Pripyat

Pripyat City was abandoned in 1986 after the nuclear accident at Chornobyl Nuclear Power Station. Art has appeared on the walls across the c

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Short Term and Long Term Danger: Prehistoric Art and Nuclear Disposal

Initial Idea/Hypothesis/Research Jump off Point:

What would the artistic language be of a city powered entirely by Nuclear Energy?

Even though it would be impossible for a society to discover nuclear energy before they discover fire, I wanted to research into what the artistic language of one society could be in theory. 

Fire demands immediate respect. It yields to be used as a tool if you know how to use it, but if you don't then you get hurt. The immediate pain reminds you of this tool's danger. This property is not observed in nuclear power, yet over the long term it reflects this same property. 

We are only aware of this due to long term research and remembering history. How do we keep that intact for the future generation?

Research Day 1: How to Talk to the Future: Paleolithic Cave Art and Nuclear Power Plants

First day’s Research round up conclusion. Today I laid the rough groundwork for both sides of the research argument/question.

 Reading through articles which details the art of the Paleolithic era revealed to me that most depictions did not warn of the power or danger of fire, like I had originally predicted, but more so of animals that roamed the world 10 thousand years ago. It is a guess by researchers that the depictions’ sole intent was to warn of danger of the large animals. One of the proposed motivations was that the art was humans of the time positioning themselves in the world that they lived in, potentially demonstrating humor and understanding that they are meat just as much as the animals that they eat and hunt. 

Humans were not depicted with much detail, mostly presented as what we now call, stickmen,  and there was more focus on the animals. This is inferred that the humans of the time did not have much care for individualism, and relied heavily on community to live. The community is what would have made being able to complete a cave painting, such as The Lascaux Cave Paintings, possible. The migration patterns of the time tell us that potentially the caves were used to mark where people already have been, and if they had any foresight, to teach and warn others of the area. 

  I have been unable to find if there’s any art work of that period which we have deciphered as showing the passage of time and its effects on the subjects to warn of danger that can happen over time. I believe more research is needed.

On the other side with nuclear power. So far there hasn't been an end conclusion reached on a fool proof way to warn the future generations to stay out of nuclear waste sights. Though there have been steps made to build these sights to be as remote as possible in hopes that it will be avoided. We simply have no way to tell how language or culture will evolve over the next thousand years, much less over 10 thousand years, therefore leaving us unable to use any of our modern tools that we use to convey ideas to each other now. Any and all signs that we may know as universal to signify danger can and probably will become obsolete over the course of the next millennium, especially so if society collapses. 

A group of researchers, artists, journalists and scientists have assembled the Nuclear Culture Research Group, which to this day proposes different ways that Nuclear Culture could be preserved in order to pass on the dangers of nuclear waste to the future.

The Finish believe this is all pointless and that we should have more hope that the people of the future will be smart enough to recognize the sights of nuclear waste. 

There are a lot more functioning nuclear power plants than I thought. Currently they all work through Nuclear Fission, meaning the nucleus of the atom splits into two. Nuclear Fusion is still being researched. A refresh on atoms and a thorough reread on how nuclear fission works is needed on my end. I believe this is crucial in order to see how to develop the visual artistic language that could be used to portray danger. 

My biggest question right now is understanding the full extent of the long term danger of Ionic Radiation in order to properly portray its danger in the artistic language that I want to propose. After finding this, I believe it would be good to look back again at prehistoric art and see if there’s anything that was used to try to carry the message of potential danger, and then progress through the ages to see how it has evolved and how it can keep evolving. 

Next vein of research: Effects of Radiation on the human body, case studies of areas near nuclear sites, Semipolatisk. Art that depicts the passage of time. Further dive into the work done by the Nuclear Culture Research Group. Refresh of how Atoms Work. Further research into how Nuclear Reactors work and how they fail. Further Documentation of how exactly nuclear waste is dealt with.

Articles used:

‘Humans were not centre stage’: how ancient cave art puts us in our place

The long read: In our self-obsessed age, the anonymous, mysterious cave art of our ancient ancestors is exhilarating

How to build a nuclear warning for 10,000 years’ time

The nuclear waste buried far beneath the earth will be toxic for thousands of years. How do you build a warning now that can be understood i

Nuclear Culture

A network who share their work and opportunities around nuclear culture to develop new research partnerships.

What is Nuclear Energy? The Science of Nuclear Power

Nuclear energy is a form of energy released from the nucleus, the core of atoms, made up of protons and neutrons.

The Lascaux Cave is famous for its Palaeolithic cave paintings, found in a complex of caves in southwestern France, because of the exception

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Plus Week 2, Year 2, Summer

Dear Paint Closet Tumblr Blog,

This week I reevaluated and recalibrated myself.

Sunday (Part Two)

After writing last weeks post I headed to tinker away in the studio.

I did a warm up sketch based on one of my paintings 'Emerging", I used oil on canvas paper.

Also Finally put up all of my mind map bits for the forest project

I continued the painting I started last time. I started doing it in acrylic and continued in oil paint, but I havent oil painted in quite a while, but i remembered that its easier to paint if you just have all the paint colors premixed. So I premixed way too much paint for the little painting that I was painting. In this way I felt obligated to use up all the paint that I mixed.

I decided based on the color pallatte to paint more people. I didnt have any good refrences but the night before I watched The Doom Generation with Otto and Ollie and I liked the smearing and coloring in the threesome scene at the end so I was like fuck it im paitning that.

I started painting without a sketch so the porportions are a bit wacky but the color and lighting anded up greattttt so im actually happy.

That day, by trapping myself with too much paint, I spent about 7 hours in there. Cant say I'd want to do that again actually. If I was, I need to plan a variety of activities to do, because after a few hours of just painting I literally got up and did jumping jacks and ran around. I was losing my mind a little by the end ngl.

Monday

I was, Surprise, really tired after spending so much time in the studio, so I didnt want to make anything this day!!!

My ikea order finally arrived that day and I started assembling a few of the smaller things. I had to carry up the closet in 5 parts up the stairs and oh my god I had to lay down afterwards.

So I took it chill the rest of the day. In the evening I hund out with Otto and Ollie and we worked on our own projects together. Otto was sewing their book, Ollie was painting for their zine, I was trying my hardest to make a portfolio to submit to Aryq Fest. The deadline for it is the 30th of June.

I was going to start entirely from scratch, which is very intimidating, when Ollie suggested to just edit the portfolio I already have. Tbh, would not have though of that on my own. Remaking that portfolio kinda feels like degutting myself in a way, I had made it with so much care two years ago when I was applying to art schools. It's also intresting to reread and look through the portfolio and see that Im still toying with the same themes. Like I've written on a page with self portraits: "Are my features me or am I my features? What do I say by separating them from each other or portraying myself from a different angle?" like Im basically exploring a very close by concept in my project "Who's Body is it Anyways?". Really intresting to see consistencies in your own work.

Also making a portfolio or anything adjacent to that makes me realize I should have a work archive by now, it would make things soooo much easier man...

Tuesday

On Tuesday, in the morning I continued working on my portfolio.

In the evening, Otto and Ollie came over, Otto came to help assemble furniture, and Ollie came to work on his work and moral support lol.

We assembled the fuck out of that closet. It took us like 3 whole hours but we freaking did it. I think we make a great furnite building team!

Wednesday

Today is Wednesday, Im finishing writing this at my computer. In the morning I finally finished unpacking my kitchen, and continued to put stuff in my newly built closet.

In the afternoon I met with Otto to finish up plus weeks wrap ups. They finished theirs, I havent yet. I was alternating between writing this blog post and editing my portfolio and managed to finish neither of them in that time. We discussed plans, we'll be doing stick and pokes on Friday, and our own Prom on Saturday. Since Otto isnt here for wrap up and Ollie is in a different major, I though we do our own wrap up thing, dress up all formal, show eachother our work, wander around town and get drunk.

The human brain aches for rituals as markers for the passage of time, it's why we celebrate birthdays, hold funerals, have anniverseries, and sometimes do your own proms. It makes accepting the passage of time bearable.

I think this is something really nice to do while both Otto and Ollie are still here.

I've been hanging out with these two freaks almost everyday these last two weeks, thanks to plus weeks, and very soon they'll be moving back home. It's still hard to believe I won't be able to see them every other day, I enjoy how much I've gotten used to them being in my life. I know they're not dying or anything! And I'll definitly get to see them eventually, I'm already making plans to visit during the out period! They keep trying to convince me to do an exchange at maas art now haha, i'm still thinking about it :) I know I'll see them again, but it just hurts so much knowing they wont be coming back after we're all back from summer break.

Here I am, at my computer finishing this post, sobbing quite hard to be quite honest with you. Im still not done with my portfolio, but I am almost done with this post. And when I am done with this post, I will be done with plus weeks, which means my friends will be leaving quite soon. It feels as if, maybe if I dont finish writing this, things would stay as they are? But I know they won't. My two dear friends have lives of their own back home, friends and family that miss them just as much as I will once they're gone.

All I wish is that I could keep these memories like a snowglobe. I can shake it gently and remember our time together. I can watch the current move the pieces that once used to be solid ground underneath our feet. I can watch without crying like I am now. I promise myself to look back in joy and not in sorrow.

Even as I continue to ramble on, I don't think my words are capble of capturing all that I feel. It's similar to when I moved for university;

it hurts to anticipate change, it hurts to see change, to feel change. It hurts to change. But the pain of it all does not make change a bad thing.

My two dear friends taught me I don't have to fear change, not in myself and not in others.

Otto and Ollie, if you guys for some reason read this whole thing, thank you. I've said it a million times already and I'll say it a million times again, thank you for being my friends, for anwsers a milion questions that I had about being on T, how it feels, how things change. Thank you for all the incomprehensive conversations we've had, all the stupid bits and jokes. You two weirdos really changed my life. I'm less afraid of being myself.

I love you guys.

Thank you for everything <3

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Plus Weeks, Week 1, Summer Y2

Dear Paint Closet Tumblr Blog,

This week I would say I was very succesfull at hanging out with my friends as much as possible. This week I though a lot about a lot of things.

Wednseday

On Wednesday we had the kick off, and I reformulated my plus plan and shadowed Otto and Ollie in the fabric station while they worked on the looms.

We did a group trip to the art store, I bough the cheapest canvas frames they had to start learning how to streatch canvases.

In the evening I came over to where Otto and Ollie live, which is actually the same building that I lived first year here! Otto is living in the same exact apartment I used to live in. It felt a little strange the first few times I came over cus it was like woah! I used to live here! But then I got over it because it felt like it really became associated as their place.

Otto has befriended 6 cats in that area, and that evening I met 3 of them. They're doing a project on them which I think is pretty cool. Otto also named all of them, Pallet (white and dark gray), Tuft (brown) and Jerry (orange) are the ones I got to meet. He said Jerry is his favorite. Pallet drooled all over our hands when we were trying to feed him treats. On this day it was also discovered that Pallet and Tuft are good friends :D

After meeting the cats we walked all the way to Noordereiland to go on a big slide. On that walk I stateg thinking about how fleeting everything is. How I didnt know these two people just a few months ago, and now I cant imagine never meeting them. This feeling, I've been trying to observe and potentially catch this week, to put down on paper.

Thursday

I FINALLY went to my studio for the first time. I vlogged it, god knows when I'll edit that but I did film it.

That day in the studio I did some very general cleaning and rearranging so that I can start working. As a warm up, I drew Otto with Jerry, when I felt like I couldnt recognize Otto in the pencil sketch I moved on to a different task.

I strechted a canvas for the first time! Entirely guided by basic things that I remember and slight help from a youtube tutorial. Then I primed it bright green and started laying out a sketch for the painting based on a sketch from my sketchbook. I did a light wash of skin colors on it with acrylic. I want to do this piece in oil but I was getting tired and hungry at that point so I just wanted to do a quick wash and go home.

Friday

Friday didnt go as planned and it kinda threw me off my loop. Ive been going to bed late and waking up late. The biggest problem with that is every other evening we make plans to hang out with Ollie and Otto. So if I need something done, it needs to be done in the morning. In the morning when i'm not awake yet. On friday I wanted to go to the studio before we went to the cinema. Since I only started paitning a little the day before, I really wanted to start painting FR FR on friday. The issue with that is I dont like going to the studio for just 1-2 hours, I find it the most useful if im able to be there for 4-6 hours, in that time frame I can work in a relaxed matter that feels the most productive.

I had also been putting off bringing a piece of wood that was part of my ikea shelf to cut down. I thought Id have enough time to cut down that piece AND go to the studio. But I didnt!

Here's me with my wood tho. At school I ran into an aquiantace from 3rd year of photography and he made me remember I should start making my out period plan... Something to start writing about next week.

After coming home from school with the wood I realized I definitly dont have enough time for the studio. So i went and bought a watermelon and invited over Ollie and Otto to eat some before we went to watch the live action of How To Train Your Dragon.

Friday made me start think about priorities. I really want to work but I dont seem to prioritize it and therefore I end up not doing it. Why is that?

Saturday

Saturday we planed to go to the Brienord Lake. Otto did an elective that was basically entirely done on that island and he wanted to take us to the Lake there.

The thing is, turns out my studio is really close to this lake, so I though, oh yes I can go work before I meet them at the lake! And thats how my second day of wanting to go to the studio and not going, went.. It felt like my biggest enemy was not waking up early.

But alas. I realized yeah, im up too late. So i got up and had breakfast near Nordplein market, by the water. I realized I like this city a lot more after moving, I fit right in the North. I was sitting by the water thinking how I didnt feel like I want to leave anymore. In less that a month I was capable of turning my life around with my own two hands, to the point that I didnt feel the need to look forward to moving back home. The feeling of wanting to leave turned into wanting to show my friends how I'm living now.

This is a weird feeling that I dont know how to name. I felt like by re-arranging a rug in the present to suit me better now, I have pulled it out underneath the feet of future me. I've sabotaged myself out of having a quick escape after graduation. I'm starting to feel like this could be home. It could be home if I'm willing to go through the pain of making it one.

I put this feeling aside and headed to the lake to meet my friends.

We basically spent all day there, swiming, tanning, talking, drinking.

I started remembering Otto is leaving in about a week from now, and Ollie will follow a week after that. Even though our time is limited, I'm incredibly gratful to have met these two. I don't think I can pin down everything I feel into words right now and I don't feel the need to.

This is where I come back to the fleeting nature of things. This limitation of time made me appreciate my new friends more, which by extention has also made appriciate my old friends more as well. In reality, all of our time together is incredibly fleeting, you just never realize it because it's not often that you have a specifically imposed time fram on you, like an exchange period, like the last half year of highschool, like summer break, like a weekend getaway, like a few spared hours together, like a 20 minute phone call.

Sunday

Today is Sunday. Today I'm sitting at my laptop, writing this post. I'm remembering all the things i've done and thought about this week. I'm planning to go to my studio soon, I've got no plans for the eveing so I can stay there until late.

Today I'm thinking about priorities. I'm thinking about how I need to reevaluate my priorities in order to get where I want to be. Right now I know I'm prioritizing time with friends but I would like to shift around the time I use to also spent time working on my art. I need more time on it because I havent had the time to prioritize my making in the last month due to moving. I want to make more, not because I feel guitly that I havent, but because I feel like I'm gonna pop like a cork from a champagne bottle soon if I dont let it out gently. May this shifting doesn't happen next week, maybe it happens later, that's okay. I just know it's something that needs to happen.

Everytime I'm in my studio I get excited again and again to make. It makes me remember why I study what I study, why I do what I do. Because I genuinly enjoy it and it brings me great fulfilment to do so.

This coming week, I'd like to continue hanging out with my friends, but I'd also like to reshift and reprioritize my making. How do i make that happen? Fuck if I know, I'll just play it by ear.

See you next week,

Arlo

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Plus Plan, Year 2 Summer, Refining

I felt like my original plan was a tad unproffesional and lacking detail. Can you blame me? I've been in a summer mood since May! But some refining was due anyways.

1. Hang out with friends as much as possible! (Otto and Ollie) (because they are leaving soon and I will miss them very much!) 2. Go to Ikea with my neighbor

In order to be a happy thriving artist, I need to first be a thriving happy person. A big part of that for me is living in a space that I like. Moving from a tiny studio apartment with loud neighbors to a slightly bigger studio with significantly quieter neighbors has already been an upgrade and has made me a lot happier. The move had also made it possible to hang out with friends a lot more often, which also makes me much happier. Most, if not all, of my friends do art in some capacity, so it's also always nice bouncing ideas off them as well, and now I can do that a lot more often as well. While hanging out I want to draw my friend while theyre doing their own thing.

I realize that in general I also do a lot of cleaning. Very often I feel held back from doing something because something needs to be cleaned before I do the thing. Like feeling like I need to clean the art studio top to bottom to actully be able to work, which is obviusly not true.

I often record timelapses of myself cleaning in the studio to put in my vlogs, and I think it would be intersting to reflect upon how that changes how I work and what I do, and if it does at all. Maybe I'll just journal about it. Im not sure, I have a very complicated relationship with cleaning to be honest.

Get back into My Studio Practice

Speaking of studio!!! I havent had the time or energy to go to my art studio for over a month now due to moving!!! So in reality what I want to spend most of my plus weeks doing is reestablishing my studio practice. Mostly just the fact of going, establishing the routine of getting up maybe a little earlier (or not,we'll see!), making myself food to eat in the studio. To me currently, what I even make in the studio is almost irelevant. My main concern is just being there more often.

In reality, I actually also have a project I'd like to start working on during these two weeks. "We don't talk about it/Side by Side". Ive been working on the visuals and concept since last winter, and have made a milion sketches for it but could never decide how exactly to execute it. Ill make another post outlining that project seperatly.

In hindsight, Id like to do this project well, and in order to do that I need to learn a few skills, mostly canvas stretching. I think it would be nice to start practicing on small canvases and the scaling up.

So basically we'll see what I end up doing in the studio, the point is just want to be there.

But ya thats kinda it, very chill plan, see you on the other side!

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Personal Reader, Term 2.2, Studio Conversations

In this term we were tasked with formulation mental studios with our classmates we thought we would work best with. Through conversation, studio GRIP was formed, which includes Charlie, Chearin, Jennifer and me. We were united over the fact that in our works we all work with bodies, their portrayal and their ties to self identity.

Establishing a studio practice and Personal reflection

These past few months have been good for my professional life. Alas not everything has been brought to its full potential, I am very happy with where I stand now. As you probably have heard, I now have a physical studio. And honestly just having that space has brought a lot of welcomed changes to what I do and how I work. I can finally do those big paintings I've been dreaming of continuing to do.

This term was interesting to me, the parallels between starting to be in physical studio whilst also having a term about making studios, felt a little like I was going to work and then coming home to play pretend my day job. I can't say that our studio group work impacted me in any overhauling ways. 

The group forming we had to do actually made me reflect upon the fact that what the studio exercise is supposed to be, is something that I already have in my life. The bonds I have formed with my friends and classmates already fulfilled the niche that the studio exercise wanted to build. Its like what we were trying to make was a synthetic replica of what already exists. Whilst that doesn't make one better than the other, it made me realize what I already have in my life. Its like getting another stamp of approval on the bonds I have with my friends and classmates. lol

Reflection on final project outcomes

Artist statement:

WHO’S BODY IS IT ANYWAYS?!

As the title implies, there's a standoffish attitude that I display when I paint myself. There's  a line that I often cross, that makes it seem like the subject is no longer me, but an amorphous vessel for my ideas. My face begins to disappear, my scars and tattoos fade away.  This isn't a new idea to me, something that I organically started doing in my work since high school.  The paintings on display today are my first attempts to start fully leaning into this concept, to see how much I can bend and break it. How much of myself should really remain in the work? How far can I detach from my own body by working in this way?

Not even gonna lie I reinforced my own point about this during the presentation and it suddenly hit me, oh shit were not just talking about my paintings, were by proxy also discussing my body! Oops!

I presented 3 paintings, which I deem unfinished, and I didn't push myself to finish them to full completion because I know it would drain me and they wouldn't end up that good anyways due to working under pressure.

Overall, I'm happy with the work I've completed independently, and finishing the group work wishing we did a little more together as a group. But that's okay. I'm very happy with how thematically our presentation tied in together nicely and organically.

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Wolf's class feedback

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Week 2 Plus Weeks

On Monday I went to the Zuidplein Library for the first time to study. I covered Neutral adn Charged objects, charge interaction, and Newtons third law. That law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. That night I drempt of opposite charges attracting and Newtons third law.

Later that day I went to Karin's studio visit. One of the studios we got to visit was Inge Aanstoot's painting studio. I LOVEEEEEEd her work. Literally how I picture my art studio to look one day hopefully.

Her work is very detailed which is very up my alley. I was very intrested in her process because the paintings themselves seemed to be very rich in information and research which I was correct about

This is a pieace of her painting "Nature, nurture, faults & culture" which we got to see and she a explained the reaserch behind it. I though it was really intresting, because she said that even though her work, especially this one, has a lot of background research, its not important for the audience to pick up on all the information pictured, but it is important for the creation of the piece. Also super cool to learn that she doesnt sketch out the work on paper first, but instead takes a lot of notes for it. This is really resonating with me currently since most of what Ive been doing id research and notes.

Tuesday was more physics research, now at school. Went through the books in the library just trying to see what we have on electronics, physics and musics. Couldn't spot a section on music which I found strange but I did find quite a few things on physics and electronics! Didn't start reading due to knowing I need to learn more about the basics before diving into the details

Wednesday I went to Gelijkstroom studio viewing. Hella cold but relatively close to me. I went over with my dad whether its a viable option to join the vereniging, and after clarifying some details about the contract and set up, Im in :D ! The countract starts february first, which also when we first pay rent and start setting up so Im exhited to finally have a painting studio.

Thursday I got to school and realized I left my research notebook at home. I was getting a bit bored of simply following the physics curriculum so I didn't really mind. Instead I decided to sit down and write a think piece about academia from everything I had been thinking about while getting more involved in learning outside a class curriculum.

Starting to get more invested into academia has been making me more disappointed in my highschool education. While I may wish to point finge

Then I started thinking about how to make my research into something physical based off the conversation I had with Desiree.

I was thinking of the experiments associated with demonstrating physics in classroom. The one on the right is the Van de Graff generator, which is a static ball. The one on the left is a demonstration of Newton's Third Law.

Then we went to Melly with Farah to see the Patterns of Exploitation/Strings of life exhibition

This was my favorite piece called "Love Letter to People and Places" by Ottavia Natoli. Teared up a little ngl

Friday I stayed home and decided to make the sketch I made earlier in the week into a digital painting. I used a technic I had previously done in high school of drawing with a mouse. I originally did it when the touchscreen on my previous laptop had stopped working and I wanted to see if I could still digitally paint with a mouse. I find this method a lot more intuiative than drawing on a touchscreen to be honest. Just feels like Im layering paint. Its like digital pointilism and lets me give up a certain level of control that I have when painting, making it less stress free. Might render more in the future

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Highschool killed the cat, but curiosity after graduation brought it back as an academic critical thinker

Starting to get more invested into academia has been making me more disappointed in my highschool education. While I may wish to point fingers at specific teachers I may have not liked in high school, in the end it is not the fault of the individual, but the fault of the system underneath which they teach. The rigid system is built to teach what is on the exam, and how to pass it. The curriculum is built upon remembering and not fundamentally understanding to be at its core. This system selects the people that may not always be equipped to be an educator. Many times selecting teachers that will only go through material, and not formulate personal classroom structures to make sure each student gets something personal out of the subject.

This leads to many students left unfulfilled by the subjects they are taught, which leads most students to give up on their studies to be something that can be enjoyable, potentially even fun, and seen more as a chore of life that you must go through. 

I never took physics beyond 9th grade, and before that my knowledge of it was also limited. I didn't care for it for most of my life. But during the plus weeks I started research that started with a question in electronics and music which led me down the path of teaching myself basic physics. Whilst going through practically the entire high school curriculum that would on average take 4 years, is not possible within 3 weeks for 2 hours on average every other day, I have still been attempting to cover as much as I am capable of. 

This is not a subject I ever assumed I'd be interested in researching myself due to the way stem subjects were taught to me. To start with the basics of physics you must first understand the basics of chemistry as well, a subject that I did take two years in highschool, but something I was also never terribly good at in school. I finished my final chemistry exam about half an hour early due to not knowing half the answers, and doodled five nights at freddy's characters on the back of the exam, right over the periodic table, until they let me out of the exam hall.

My highschool education has terribly failed me. This is a statement I make not to say it was all a waste of time, or that all of my teachers are terrible. My last two years I did A levels, meaning I only focused on 3 subjects that I genuinely cared about. They’re not hard to guess, Art, English Literature and Psychology. My psychology teacher was one of the best at actively acknowledging the pitfalls of the structure that we follow. He stressed how unfortunate it was that after we went through the content, all we could do was memorize and mechanically do past papers until the structure of the exam questions, and not exactly the knowledge, was memorized. That was the only exam subject I ever seriously revised and prepared for. I got a C on my final exam. I wanted to do very violent things after hearing the news of that. 

English Literature was taught by great people who also acknowledge the ridiculousness of our final exams. But I only learned how to write as much as possible for the final exam, semi-structurally. I had to learn how to properly write an academic essay my first year of university. A great way that curiosity was encouraged in the class was reading between the lines and making informed statements that we could back up. If you argue that it's true and you have evidence, the world's your oyster. 

My art classes taught me what I use most often now, almost subconsciously, which would make the most sense since I study Art. I know the certain structure that I can lean into when doing projects, such as initial sketches, documentation of the work project, final steps ect. 

But my art class was not academia based. 

I graduated school thinking I'd never pick up an interest for anything math or science related, because I thought the study of such subjects was done through agony of drilling the knowledge that is half explained until certain principles are memorized, but not actually understood.

Of Course I cannot ignore that this was partially because I was never given a good reason to be interested in math, physics or chemistry. Gate Kept behind teachers that don't know how to teach, and quite frantically make fun of you for asking questions, why would I? 

High School students, in my experience, are not given any good reasons to cultivate curiosity in their school subjects. They only study to pass an exam to get into a good university. What comes next? Then you're in university where you might have as crazy amount of freedom like I do, and you think, what the fuck now?! And if not in university, you gain that when you graduate. And yet again you start to think. What the fuck now?

You're out on your own. The wind whistles intimidatingly through your ears. You fail to hear that that's the sound of freedom, because no one taught you what it was or how to listen to it. 

Jan 2025

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Week 1 Plus Weeks

This week was relatively chill. We had the kick of and made peer groups. We were originally going to make them at random but I suggested that we do it by theme and group it by what we're doing. It made no sense to me to do it at random if we already know what everyone's doing, or planning on doing.

This week one of my major achievements was biking to school fully without the metro since moving to the south. This weather made it quite magical and I'm starting to enjoy it. Instead of taking public transport I've been getting used to the suroundings in the South. Along with concouring the eramsus bridge by bike, I have also concorude the maastunnel. Pretty cool!

On Thursday we went to tilburg

We went to the textile museum which was super intresting. I got really invested into the machinery they had, modern and old. Id love to bring my mom here when she comes visiting because she loved knitting and sewing. Also good to know that the textile museum takes internships and takes in artists to work on projects directly in the space. Would like to edit together the clips of the steam machine together eventually because I got reallyyyy into filming it

De Pont didnt impress me with the main exhibition it had on and I was too tired to see the rest of the things they had. Not a big fan of seeing two museums in one day. But I just dont think the exhibtiton was ment for me. "Beatriz González, War and Peace: A Poetics of Gesture" was the exhibition. I understand that I'm an artist that likes to polish and put in the detail into things so her rough edges of the paintings really prevented me from fully connecting with the pieces. But I can appreciate the color usage and themes explored.

Id like to go back to De Pond in the future to see more of their permanent exhibition

On Friday I got my teeth into researching.

I started by going through what I was starting to learn about basic music theory for like and hour and then I got bored so I started digging into learning about electricity noise.

Can You Hear Electricity?

Why does electricity make a humming noise? | Live Science

The sound we typically associate with electricity is called the "mains hum" and is due to the way electricity is produced. I wont go into detail to not bore you but its mainly because of the electric transformer incide devices, which is responsible for decreseing the voltage of electricity that comes from power plants so your device to get the energy but not explodes from the high voltage. It has a magnetic element inside which vibratesand creates the hum. SO the hum we associate with electricity is not electricity, but the effect (vibration) that it has on the objects around it.

After reading that I started following the bread crumb trail to understand whats what better.

How do electricity transformers work? - Explain that Stuff

What is a transformer and how does it work | Maddox Transformer

Starter reading this, realized I dont knwo how currents work, and well basically that led me to going back all the way to the basics, which is Static electricity

Physics Tutorial: Static Electricity

The Physics Classroom Tutorial: Electric Circuits

Physics Tutorial: Electric Current

So yeah I just started Learning physics from the very begigning

Also spent the week playing more on my guitar and toughening my fingers hahahahhahah

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Plus Plan 2, Electricity Doesn't Make Noise

I realized recently I actually enjoy learning new things. I like thinking and exploring concepts if they intrest me. And I like researching. I started realizing this when writing the assignment for theory about the post soviet influence of Kazakhstan's contemporary art, but due to the limited word count, I didn't have enough space to spread my theoretical writing wings.

On my first flight to make it back to Rotterdam, I started rewatching Evangelion, yes the anime, and remembered how much I like the mysticism of seemingly advanced technology. Same reason for why I liked Akira's aesthetic. When you don't know how a computer works, or in this case a futuristic mecha flesh robot, it may as well be magic. The lines blur when you don't know enough to understand.

Rewatching Evangelion reminded me of the playlist I made years ago, "Shinji's mental breakdown in the cockpit", which is mostly house/electronic music. Music which I associate with feverish tech, unstable electronics as well as with technological mysticism. Not knowing how it work but still going along with it. Very similar to the main character, Shinji, just going along with piloting the giant mecha robot because it's easier to along with what you're told to do. The anime also explores themes of human connection, how we yearn for it yet avoid it out of fear of pain, the hedgehog theory ect.

But where I'm going with this tangent, is that the digital music made me think of visuals that I associate with the sounds that I hear.

None of the following statements are backed up by science that I know of.

Most things make sound. Natural (vs Manmade) objects have sounds that they are predisposition to make certain noise this can be evaluated/ calculated with a visual analysis. Sound doesn't equal Visual, but when you see a piano, you associate it with the sound it makes. You can knock on a table and predict the sound it makes. Physical music can be quite intuitive to make and play and i think also listen to.

But what about digital sound? Digital instruments and digital songs? And how do these unnatural sounds become associated with certain visuals? I feel a certain level of uncertainty when staring into FL Studio, and this feeling has been following since I first got it when I was 13. What do all the commands mean and buttons do? There's no intuition that can help you in a lawless technological mind field.

So I decided for plus weeks I just want to continue researching, thinking, learning and writing about the connections between digital sounds, their associations with visuals. I'm starting from roughly learning about music theory. I played the piano for 7 years and never learned how to it works lol so that would be a nice gap in my knowledge to fill. I will be following the following course:

Understanding Basic Music Theory | Open Textbooks for Hong Kong

It also covers the physics aspects of why music musics which I'm also interested in, and I think it will help me know which aspects to further research to answer my questions. I like learning about physics, i just never had any good teachers to get me interested or teach me anything about it. Fuck you middle school and high school physics teachers!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe I would have been an astrophysicist if not for your dumb fucking asses that don't know how to teach!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a very deep and personal grudge towards physics teachers.

Oh yeah I'm also being motivated to do more music related things because I got my first guitar that mine and mine only!! And it's a silent guitar! Which is an electric guitar that you can still play without an amp or headphones and hear it very lightly

I don't know how electric guitars works but I wanna know more cus I love how they sound and I love my new guitar

I don't really know where all of this investigation will lead me but it's something that's grasping my attention and curiosity so I just want to roll with it and see where the research will take me !

physics

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A false prophet comes to town

Initial garment sketches

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Plus Plan, January 2025

Plus Plan: Go in a different direction than my usual practices

Shoot short film: “A False Prophet comes to town”

During the first week I am to learn to pattern and use the sewing machines at school as well as finishing a draft of what exactly will be in the short film. By second week I am to have a white, priest-like garment ready for shooting the video. I will ask Charlie to help shoot and probably a couple more of my friends. Third week will be left for editing. 

The outline of the short film would be that the false prophet drags through town, streets, markets, ect. And as the video goes on, the white garments become dirtier and filthier. The prophet cannot save anyone, no matter how much it may have seemed in the beginning, as the prophet cant even keep itself clean. I think shooting this will be a great test of my character. 

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Event Work

The original idea for this work came from thinking about how to display work with limited wall space but still wanting to work on a large format.

What I had come up with is diplaying a lot of little pictures on the floor, and then having to get up on a lader and looking down on the piece to view it properly.

This set up is inspired by a secret project that I can only talk about briefly for the sake of context. The project involves polaroids, and the way i would set them up and look at them as one was in this grid pattern. That project is partially inspired by Emma Bee Bernstein, EXQUISITE FUCKING BOREDOM

It's a collection of polaroids of her and her friends, exploring coming-of-age adulthood, and the theatrics, pretend, and self-consciousness of it all. This work was introduced to me by my university application advisor when I was working on one of the WdKA home assignments, Selfies specifically. I still think about her work often.

I also got the idea from layouts of calendars. I sent this particular photo to the group chat I have with my friends, to demonstrate how many people and for how long will be staying with me in November.

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When starting to think of the logistics and dynamics of this idea, I also remembered work that I previously saw on instagram by Trey Abdella, the idea of transparency andsee-throughh objects behind the original painting if paid close attention. I also really like the idea of incorperating a portrait as something more than just a portrait.

From that point, I started thinking and developing the idea for the piece "Time well spent/I hope this hurts". The idea was to capture the feeling I often feel when I have friends and loved ones visiting me here. I hurts when they leave no matter how much or how often it happens. I remember the first time my dad visited me here and I walked him to the tram stop to send him on the way, when I came back to my room I felt like an abandoned child, even though we had a great few days together and I'd be seeing him soon anyways. I sobbed that day on the inflatable mattress that he was staying on. I couldn't bear to deflate it for a couple of days.

Last evening I accompanied my friend all the way to Rotterdam Central from my place so she would not get lost and started crying saying good bye to her, even though we will see each other very soon in December anyways.

That's my reasoning for the title, "Time well spent/I hope this hurts". To me, if it hurts so much for me when someone leaves, it means they're important enough for my body to mourn over them. It's almost like I don't have object permanence, and in my head every time someone leaves they die again in my eyes. Basically I'm like a dog with seperation anxiety.

I started playing with composition in my notebook. I thought about filling the squares with photos/memories that I made that day with my friends, and to have those memories make up the portrait of me.

Trying to demonstrate that with color. Also trying to think how to logistically execute it.

Color overlap

Technical experimentation. There's a big buts and ifs for me about how big the squares really should be and which layer the portrain should be and which layer the people memories should be on. And how to actually show and execute the people memories.

I wish we had just one teacher who would help with logistical execution. Every time I try to talk to a teacher about it I hear the same advice "Well it sounds like you've thought it through already, I think you should just start!" No. That's not how I function or operate. So a lot of this project is just me thinking about how to execute it. Also, next time I hear that advice I will start committing unspeakable evil. I'm seriously at my fucking limit. If you're reading this and you've given me this advice reconsider your life choices. You're being vague and unhelpful.

Talking about it with friends tho i came up with a couple ideas. I was thinking of painting the portrait on a piece of paper that goes behind and then cut squares into a canvas. Charlie brought up the fact that cutting squares, depending on the size and distance from eachother, may weaken the structure of the canvas to no longer hold. But by using the canvas, I would be able to cut a corner and make the work more presentable looking without much effort. Say what you want but a painting with just painted edges already can look quite finished.

But now I'm thinking of going back just to paper. Using paper, and different kinds of it, can give a fragile sense to the painting which would aid in the illustration of the delicate feeling I'm trying to put in the painting.

Testing potential size and closesness and overlap.

Now that I, more or less know what to do with the portrait since I've painted a test one, I had to start thinkign how to actually capture my friends in the painting. I didnt want to paint individual memory frames anymore. Seemed kinda boring, I dont have enough pictures or patience for it. But thinking about how to incorperate parts of everyone to make a larger sum. The same way Im basically a museum of all the things I like about my friends. I though about potentially having a call back to "Vert Hands", which is a series of painings done in ink using refrences of my friend's hands.

But now I'm leaning more towards the idea of using text on this outer square layer. I'm trying to write a text about how my friends are my organs and when they're gone I can feel that something integral about me is missing. But I think it kinda sounds like shit. I don't know. Sounds cliche and stupid.

"My loved ones are my organs. When you look at me you may not see how they help me live and breath. My kidneys and lungs. When you're not here I can feel the empty space inside me where you belong. I know I won't bleed out but I can feel hole inside me when I move. I can't help it. I know I can live without you like I can live without my spleen but dear God do I miss you when you're not here. I miss you. Thank you for being here when you are"

I am now trying to assemble the first piece of the puzzle, the portrait, my portrait. Doute is the only thing I feel about it. I think now the composition looks overdone and cliche. I cant muster up the courage to take the leap and keep going. I dont know what to do with myself.

Due to my Curatorial position for the event and my micromanaging mechanism, I've also taken an organizational role. My personal work has taken a backseat, even though its involvement with the event is important, it no longer feels so. My work doesn't belong in a community center, which is something I've stated over and over again. I had a maddening conversation about it with Jack. He kept saying that it's a good way to see what you want and don't want from your career. Is this not then a waste of time if I already know it's not something I want to do? This isn't a challenge for me to rise to, this is the mental equivalent of running my body against a giant cheese grater. I can run organization even if i don't personally want to be too involved just fine, but the second I have to put my work in it, It's torture. I don't want to make work for this event. I don't want my work at this event. I don't see a point. I'll do it nonetheless. Everything I do now is done mostly through forcing myself to do it. If i don't do it, who will?

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Figure drawing class

Size about A2, Ink and oil pastels

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Pop Culture 3, Quarters Project

I started doing this for fun just for the sake of it. The format is pretty clear. I try to post semi daily, 4 photos that I have all taken the day I post them. They vagely interact in one way or another, wether thematiclaly or color wise. Sometimes they dont. It has to be an image that I took, and I keep faces and full figure people out of it. And there is always a song to go along with it. It either interacts thematically with what is in the photos, or it's a song that I was listening to over and over again that day. The music icon has to be in the middle of the 4 images, almost like the uniting thing between all of them. I've been doing this since september 5th with no intention of stopping

It started when one day I had a few photos of 4 mechanical looking things, so i posted them to a song called mechanical something and then I just decided to keep going.

To be honest this started because I listen to a lot of music and I wanted to be able to capture that in a format that is easy to do daily. Low effort, high satisfaction.

I think it's intersting to use instagram stories as my medium. The project has a lot of potential to be hit or miss. Some people pay attention to what other people post on their stories, content and music wise. Some people scroll mindlessly. I'm the first type of person, clearly since I'm doing this project. For now I'm not sure how this affects the project but I want to acknowledge the dynamic

All of the stories to date can be seen on my instagram page, under the highlight "Quarters"

https://www.instagram.com/errorinspace/

Here's a full video of all the quarters, with the music played in full, up to the current date, 19th of October 2024.

I'm intrested to see where it goes or how I continue this project or how it evolves. I didnt start it with an intention of making it a big thing, but it jsut felt natural to do so. I also never intended to show this as a class project since it felt like it was just for my own enjoyment, but I've been trying to cut more corners and take less pressure off myself to work