P.S. – had to add this little tidbit before HP + bedtime. I had the BEST night tonight. Actually the best DAY! I woke up at 8am and went for a 45 minutes run with peter. We ran the whole hike from Sunday to the point of the mountain that I took my panoramic picture of:
When I got back I had enough time to do all of my daily things and catch up on all my art history reading, outside in a hammock in the open air mountains of Tuscany! Love my life. I’m actually doing all my homework here because it’s cool to read about the things I’m getting to witness first hand, and it’s also awesome to read laying out in the Italian sunshine or in a hammock like today. In class I bound my first book! It took 2 hours but it’s precious and such a hand-crafted beauty in my eyes J I’m so proud of it.
Graphics crit went really well and afterwards I went back to the book arts studio and bound a second little sample of Coptic binding. With an hour before dinner I started watching Under the Tuscan Sun. Best movie I’ve seen since the plane ride up, haha…but really it’s soo good. It’s a-typical in the plot line, so even the master of calling all movies (me) wasn’t able to get a grip on it. It was a “real life” kind of movie that dealt with heartache, love, reality, and life being cyclical and always moving on. But the most magical parts were that it is staged completely in Cortona and in other places of Italy that I’ve been. If you want to see the town I’m living in, plus parts of Rome that I’ve visited, just pop it in. Every scene, my roomies and I would gasp because we go to these places every day: Snoopy’s, our gelato place is in it, the Pizza that I sit in with the birds every day – in it. The bank – in it. The main house that I run by every day – in it. The restaurant I ate at when we were all fancy – first scene in Cortona. The market where I shop for produce – in it. It was crazy! We’d spot things and yell them out. We had to pause the movie half way to go down to Tonninos’ (which is in the background when she’s on the pay phone) and it was unreal walking outside and seeing the exact landscape and views that we’d been watching on a motion picture. We were like, wait, is this real life? It was such a nice reminder that we are in IT-TA-LY! Also, crazy about the movie – the man who’s quote I was assigned for my graphics project, is in the movie! My quote for my poster is “There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.” – Federico Fellini, but midway through the movie when they mention his name, I made the connection and had already written a quote of him that was mentioned –
“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.” So, on top of being staged in the city I’m living in, the class project I’m working on was also randomly integrated into this movie at this exact cosmic, random moment in time."
I swear my whole summer is about “integration”. Lisa, my book arts teacher, is constantly teaching us about artists books and ways of using paper and books sculpturally, and also combining graphics and print making with the things we do. How to use books unconventionally and also to use them in collision with other mediums of art like hand typography and photography and sketching or painting. It’s basically all the things I’m really passionate about, tied into one thing. Then, I march on up stairs where Spivey is encouraging us to get out in the city of Cortona and use our photographic images in our projects with her. She loves books and the folds we’re learning, so most of our posters have turned into some sort of paper fold – a box or a hidden flap, or for man accordion book that I learned in my book arts class. Then, there’s the integration with art history, as the things I’m seeing day-to-day are the artifacts I learn about in lecture. And the Italian language I’m immersed in, and the culture I’m encouraged to accept as my own for now, is the one that is constantly found in these pieces of art and the history. Speaking of history, you have the integration of Christianity (as a vital part of art back then) with all the cathedrals I’m constantly surrounded by as well as the biblical background I get each morning in my bible study. I feel like each aspect of my day is constantly overlapping. It’s just one big ball of passion and inspiration. I’m so inspired to learn here. I want to learn everything! How to be an Italian chef, how to speak the language, all the things in my classes, how to practice photography and how to practice integration itself, how to apply Jesus to my art and how to interpret religious art based on my background of Christianity. It’s such a beautiful picture!! But back to my night (I go on the worst tangents sometimes…mi dispache (my apologies)) We had our second professor speeches tonight. Julie Spivey + Lisa Switalski. Best combo ever. I’m TOTALLY inspired right now, if you can’t tell, and this didn’t help at all! Typography baller and the most patient paper-maker, artist book and book designer, makes me want to pull an all nighter and do a ton of graphics and book research and basically make tons of stuff. Lisa not only makes sculptures out of paper but she has worked on so many beautiful book projects and she is a fabulous writer that draws inspiration from landscapes and photographs. She’s also really interested in maps, like I am, which is pretty cool. I can’t wait to get back to Athens and talk to Moon about all this stuff, because I feel like its so right up her alley way. I’m finally appreciating all her abstract books and maps and graphics that have won so many world-wide awards. After the artist speeches I just wanted to get to work, but Netflix was running out so we finished the movie, and now I’m going to sketch out my map project, which I think is going to be an abstracted map through time – my child hood, and I’m going to make a crazy complicated fold book and have the pages fold and turn and unfold but connected by string that’s sewn throughout so that you have to follow the strings path but you’re turning the structure around and at odd angles. It’s going to be abstract but maybe have a color key and be really simple, or maybe have text or some sort of symbol of a girl growing, I’m not sure. Lisa wants it to be metaphorical, and include something like how our thoughts have matured over time and we think differently about things now as we did when we were younger – how our point of view and perspective have evolved over time. I’d love to play around with that and also with a family tree, because I saw this picture at the book archives in Sienna….
tabs for tacking other papers in that I collect or like.
coptic bound, and good for mapping my summer's journeys. I want to find little push-pin sticker, or maybe I'll paint them on :-)
Graphics crit went really well and afterwards I went back to the book arts studio and bound a second little sample of Coptic binding. With an hour before dinner I started watching Under the Tuscan Sun. Best movie I’ve seen since the plane ride up, haha…but really it’s soo good. It’s a-typical in the plot line, so even the master of calling all movies (me) wasn’t able to get a grip on it. It was a “real life” kind of movie that dealt with heartache, love, reality, and life being cyclical and always moving on. But the most magical parts were that it is staged completely in Cortona and in other places of Italy that I’ve been. If you want to see the town I’m living in, plus parts of Rome that I’ve visited, just pop it in. Every scene, my roomies and I would gasp because we go to these places every day: Snoopy’s, our gelato place is in it, the Pizza that I sit in with the birds every day – in it. The bank – in it. The main house that I run by every day – in it. The restaurant I ate at when we were all fancy – first scene in Cortona. The market where I shop for produce – in it. It was crazy! We’d spot things and yell them out. We had to pause the movie half way to go down to Tonninos’ (which is in the background when she’s on the pay phone) and it was unreal walking outside and seeing the exact landscape and views that we’d been watching on a motion picture. We were like, wait, is this real life? It was such a nice reminder that we are in IT-TA-LY! Also, crazy about the movie – the man who’s quote I was assigned for my graphics project, is in the movie! My quote for my poster is “There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.” – Federico Fellini, but midway through the movie when they mention his name, I made the connection and had already written a quote of him that was mentioned –
“You have to live spherically - in many directions. Never lose your childish enthusiasm - and things will come your way.” So, on top of being staged in the city I’m living in, the class project I’m working on was also randomly integrated into this movie at this exact cosmic, random moment in time."
I swear my whole summer is about “integration”. Lisa, my book arts teacher, is constantly teaching us about artists books and ways of using paper and books sculpturally, and also combining graphics and print making with the things we do. How to use books unconventionally and also to use them in collision with other mediums of art like hand typography and photography and sketching or painting. It’s basically all the things I’m really passionate about, tied into one thing. Then, I march on up stairs where Spivey is encouraging us to get out in the city of Cortona and use our photographic images in our projects with her. She loves books and the folds we’re learning, so most of our posters have turned into some sort of paper fold – a box or a hidden flap, or for man accordion book that I learned in my book arts class. Then, there’s the integration with art history, as the things I’m seeing day-to-day are the artifacts I learn about in lecture. And the Italian language I’m immersed in, and the culture I’m encouraged to accept as my own for now, is the one that is constantly found in these pieces of art and the history. Speaking of history, you have the integration of Christianity (as a vital part of art back then) with all the cathedrals I’m constantly surrounded by as well as the biblical background I get each morning in my bible study. I feel like each aspect of my day is constantly overlapping. It’s just one big ball of passion and inspiration. I’m so inspired to learn here. I want to learn everything! How to be an Italian chef, how to speak the language, all the things in my classes, how to practice photography and how to practice integration itself, how to apply Jesus to my art and how to interpret religious art based on my background of Christianity. It’s such a beautiful picture!! But back to my night (I go on the worst tangents sometimes…mi dispache (my apologies)) We had our second professor speeches tonight. Julie Spivey + Lisa Switalski. Best combo ever. I’m TOTALLY inspired right now, if you can’t tell, and this didn’t help at all! Typography baller and the most patient paper-maker, artist book and book designer, makes me want to pull an all nighter and do a ton of graphics and book research and basically make tons of stuff. Lisa not only makes sculptures out of paper but she has worked on so many beautiful book projects and she is a fabulous writer that draws inspiration from landscapes and photographs. She’s also really interested in maps, like I am, which is pretty cool. I can’t wait to get back to Athens and talk to Moon about all this stuff, because I feel like its so right up her alley way. I’m finally appreciating all her abstract books and maps and graphics that have won so many world-wide awards. After the artist speeches I just wanted to get to work, but Netflix was running out so we finished the movie, and now I’m going to sketch out my map project, which I think is going to be an abstracted map through time – my child hood, and I’m going to make a crazy complicated fold book and have the pages fold and turn and unfold but connected by string that’s sewn throughout so that you have to follow the strings path but you’re turning the structure around and at odd angles. It’s going to be abstract but maybe have a color key and be really simple, or maybe have text or some sort of symbol of a girl growing, I’m not sure. Lisa wants it to be metaphorical, and include something like how our thoughts have matured over time and we think differently about things now as we did when we were younger – how our point of view and perspective have evolved over time. I’d love to play around with that and also with a family tree, because I saw this picture at the book archives in Sienna….
We’ll see J
K, night for real this time! MUAH!
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