In Charlotte...

Hello Hello! So, after a super rough month of end of the semester projects, stress, no sleep, and so on... also in the midst of all of this I had a group show and open studios which resulted in some not to nice comments from the people i live with (more in a second) and then two days later my uncle died, the only one left in my family on that side other than my dad and little sister... Then i drove his jeep all the way down to north carolina a good 10 hours without any music by myself not knowing if im in a death trap or not! haha... but i made it safe and sound and i'm here with my girlfriend, which is the best part!
So... Finals are finaly over and its made me realize just how much of my life is dedicated to grad school studies... all of it. And now i am on break but it doesnt feel like it becuase i still have so much to do... and even more emotional repairs and cares to take on now that i have time! but all that said... it comes with the territory and its great... just overwhelming. It also made me realize how this blog has become more about the school stuff than what it used to be... which i dont really like... so i'm going to try to shy away from that...
So, to start - my work has always been and probably will always be the type of work that is considered racy by some... there is a lot of nudity and so on that reoccurs throughout my work... but it is in no sense classless or tasteless or ill considered. And i guess living in the art bubble that i do with all of my fellow artists i never really get any negative feedback in that area, its all just kinda accepted without too much thought. Nudity has been in art for centuries, actualy since the beggining of art history, which is accredted most often to the Venus of Willendorf - a nude female most popularly thought to be a sign of fertility. So, it should come as no surpise that thousands of years later we still have nudity in art.
All of that said, in the show/open studios that is a part of my program, two pieces of work were chosen from my most recent series which shows my girlfriend nude and one of my lower torso and legs and her nude in bed. The two pieces were chosen by a commite of people to be a part of the show and i didnt have any say really. Anyhow, i was going to display them in my studio anyhow, so they were to be shown.
I invited everyone i knew in NY (not too many people) including the family that i live with. Only one of them was able to make it, the 22 year old daughter, and she reported back to her mom who completely blew everything out of proportion and got really upset with me. I do not need to go into any details here but it was very upseting... I just couldnt understand how a 22 year old could be so immature but more importantly how her liberal mom would be so offended by simple nudity.
anyhow, it made me reconsider how work is seen and interpreted and it really makes me confused for the most part...
so thats that.... i'm going to try to update the blog more often now that i have some spare time...
i hope everyones hollidays are what they desire.