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Oh man, Janterms are the best. Last year I went to Ghost Ranch and made a bunch of silver jewelry...which I still need to sell. This year I'm staying on campus and (hopefully!) learning how to print black and white photographs. I'm planning on doing a portraiture course where I take photos of people who identify as some variant of male or female, or agendered or off the binary or whatever. Then I'll show the photos at the end of the year in a show that challenges the gender binary and sort of continues my recent thoughts on gender. I have a few friends who've already volunteered to help me out, and I'm planning on asking a couple of other fr

Ah this semester, why were you not as successful as last? Well, I know the answers to that question, but I'm not wholly satisfied with them. I did get some really nice pieces done, though not as many as I would have liked. I got to work with the fabulous Katherine Taylor. She is both a potter and a sculptural ceramicist as well as a wonderful teacher and very patient lady. Here's her site: http://www.frontroomclay.com/ I learned how to fire kilns with her, and make glazes and clay. She also helped me re-think my theme for my next show, narrow down my ideas, and think more about the materials I've been using and would like to use in the futur

Naturally, my job was much more time-intensive than I thought it was going to be. So naturally, I got almost zero dragons done. So, in keeping with my artistic ADD, I'm making a shaman staff instead. Mostly because I'm playing a druid for a D&D campaign and I want a gorram staff to go with the character. I'm gonna try and sell it after I finish it though. I've got some rabbit bones I'm bleaching, a cool staff that looks a bit like a deer leg, snail shells, weird twisty pieces of vine, cicadas, and I'm thinking of using sculpey to make beads. Or wood. Though I'd have to carve the wood and doing that with a pocket knife sucks. I'm looking at u