when i was a senior in college almost ten years ago, i was asked if i had submitted anything to the year-end show. now as i was taking an obscene number of hours and living under a rock, i found out about the year-end show at the end of that sentence. the deadline was in 12 hours.
looking back, the qualifications for actually getting accepted into the show were 1) submitted on time, 2) exists physically, and 3) isn't embarrassing for the department. the bar was on the floor, and i had 12 hours.
63 is almost exactly what the title suggests. it's 63 pictures of the sky that i took during the course of my college career overlaid at about 2% opacity apiece. they combined to make- shocker- one blurry amalgam that actually reads as a landscape. i wrote a blurb about the sky, the place i lived, and how there's consistency in variety and even abstraction. or something. anything to make it feel planned.
i also printed it 4 feet wide. they put it up
moral of the story? go for it. it doesn't have to be jaw-dropping. at the very least it has to exist. the masterpiece i could've submitted but didn't feel confident making sure wasn't in there
and did i win anything? absolutely not, but i was in the show, babey