one of my assignments in ceramics this semester was to make multiples of something without a mold. i had a thing for rats this semester, apparently. i added them into a few paintings as well, haha. sorry for the phone photos!
30 December 2011
29 December 2011
china
for a few weeks in this past may/june, i was EXTREMELY fortunate & travelled to china with several other students from school. for someone like me who had never even been on a plane before, it was quite an experience. it left me hungry for more traveling opportunities, & i am extremely anxious to go back to china.
we visited a few art universities in china & i was so impressed. the caliber of their work & even just their work ethic was both inspiring & embarrassing because it made me realize how much harder i should be working. i think that's where i need to be. my mom has this idea engrained in her head that i should go to graduate school in china, & i have to admit daydreaming about it as well. being there put everything in perspective for me.
ideally, i'd like to be able to go to a university in korea since i've been learning korean for nearly two years & it's my minor, buuuut i'm taking chinese next semester just in case. not that any of this is even realistic, hahah. i realize that. i'd really like it to be a reality, though. i've secretly been saving up my money & (slowly) building up my portfolio. the work that i've been doing REALLY needs to be kicked up about 1000 notches if i have any hope of being accepted.
first day in beijing! i learned i didn't travel well. i was extremely sick & stranded on that tiny boat.. |
i look a little jetlagged... haha. second day in beijing. i loooooved CAFA. my dream school! |
798 gallery district in beijing. i'd KILL to go back there. |
i can say i've actually been on the great wall of china. how cool? |
hanging monasteries! not-so-fun fact: i got food poisoning shortly after leaving this place. great. |
i'm grateful for having been able to visit the chinese countryside. not many foreigners leave cities like beijing. |
the beautiful historical city of pingyao |
local student sculpting |
my absolute favorite photo taken in china |
my professor slipped the guy 10 yuan so everyone could take photos of me on the donkey. thanks, professor cong! |
28 December 2011
dreams of joy
“Seeing something once is better than hearing about it a hundred times. Doing something once is better than seeing it a hundred times.”
-Lisa See, Dreams of Joy
nature is the best artist
i took this photo after one of my massive pet koi died. so beautiful. |
i was looking through some old pictures & i came upon this.. i remember crying tears of frustration while spending many hours trying to make it, haha. i still have it! it sits on top of the fish tank i keep my frogs in.
dollar bill koi |
27 December 2011
details
regretfully, i tend not to photograph my work.. especially when it comes to my paintings. i feel like i have quite a bit of trouble capturing and transferring the feeling/overall aesthetic value of my paintings in photos. anyway, here's a washed out/camera phone quality detail of a painting i did recently. i work in acrylics, as my patience (or lack thereof) doesn't mix well with oil.
hand detail - acrylic |
false bones
i completed this project a semester ago, sometime in april or may. all of the "bones" you see are ceramic, & my sculptural work is almost always this.. organic. there is a unique beauty in death, & i don't think there is anything quite as fascinating as what's left behind when something dies. i promise i'm not trying to be "deep" when i say this, haha. anything along the lines of forensics has been a love of mine since i was very young & it translates in my work. i am not interested in a deeper meaning, or an "i am an ~artist" statement when i make these things. i make them simply as i see them because that's where the beauty lies. lucky for you (perhaps) that my professor required work to be photographed that semester... as i don't even know where this piece ended up, haha.
deer - (acrylic) painted ceramic |
hello again
after several failed attempts at blogging, let's hope this one sticks. my name is kali, and i'm not going to waste a perfectly good post introducing myself. you will hopefully learn more about me gradually through future posts rather than half-assed and all at once now, hahah
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