Final documentation for (re)Mapping project!
I finally finished my remap project last night. I waited until this morning to get a good picture of it with natural daylight. With the end of this journey comes the end to my junior year here at Michigan and first year at Stamps. Once I upload everything for this class, I’ll officially be a senior and the thought of that is so wild to me. While this painting was supposed to represent my journey throughout the class, it also represents my first two years in college before making the change to art. Even though I still feel extremely underqualified and suffer from imposter syndrome, not to mention this time next year I will be hurled into the real world to fend for myself, I don’t regret any of the decisions I made.
The beginning of the semester had been rocky for me, still trying to adjust and traverse the art student life. I also had to try and adjust to waking up for 8:30s on north everyday. I hadn’t had the best impression of the class yet and didn’t really know what was going on and felt quite overwhelmed.
As we moved onto the sequence project, I still felt quite lost, not having a solid understanding of what we were doing or why. As we got closer to the end though I felt more confident and could see the light at the end, as though I were exiting a forest.
For the body extension project, I felt incredibly confident in the process. I knew what I was going to do and how I was going to do it. I had finished it quite early and it felt like smooth sailing and like there were no obstacles, similar to a plain. I could see the end.
Then corona hit and everyone was forced to go home and stay in quarantine. It was like bring pushed off a cliff into a firey death, everything was suddenly super awful and schoolwork was hard to get done. Everything that had been going right was suddenly wrong. Times are still tough, but they’ll get better.