Owls....never again!

Conceptual piece. This was basically about the symbols of my ancestry. The symbol of the town Bouf, where my grandmother is from in Macedonia is the owl. I wanted to show the qualities of an owl through the strong image of the female. Owls are solitary, strong, and wise creatures. They also are known to be 'old souls' (which is something a 'psychic' lady once told me I was) so they are very curious little creatures.  I also wanted to give the girl/owl an spirit-y kind of look, as she is a mythical creature after all :) 


Also I read this quote which inspired me a little before I started these - 


"When philosophy paints it's gloomy picture, then a form of life has grown old. It cannot be rejuvenated by the gloomy picture, only understood.  Only when the dusk starts to fall does the owl of Minerva spread its wings and fly."


It's quite hard to understand, I don't even quite understand it. Basically the owl was seen as a symbol is wisdom, and the quote basically says that philosophy cannot be determined before something has happened, but only after, in hindsight. This is only one of three owl/girls also. 

Today felt like 3 days.

Evaluation is coming up...as I may have mentioned. And I've been stressing on a graphics assigment only to learn it wont be marked....*facepalm*

But it's okay, I'm really happy with the end result. I'll post it on here soon.

So tomorrow is my last official day of my course. I have evaluation next Wednesday and that is it. It has gone so fast. 

So I love this new Goyte song. To be honest I have literally never listened to him before, and I heard this song on the radio and I love it (despite James hating it)

So...last week of tafe. It's gone so quickly. Uni applications are all out, and I already have one interview time...I hate waiting for the others, I am way too impatient. 

Trying to complete tafe work this week. Also, instead of an end of year exhibtion, tafe teachers have told us we'll be having a book launch instead, which is pretty cool. They're publishing a book for us, with a double page spread for each of us. Should be good. 

a reintroduction

My name is Alex, and basically I just wanted to reintroduce myself for documentations sake. Currently I am studying a Certificate IV in Arts and Contemporary Crafts.

At the beginning of the year my main intention was to continue on after this year, studying fine art and some form of institute. I was so set on being an artist, and was basing my whole folio on that notion.

Over the year, after taking part in a graphic design elective, I found myself more and more 'into' graphics, and more able to use my drawing and hand skills to create design pieces. As well as this I found I was able to include my love of typography in graphics, more so then I could in my other more fine art-y subjects.

And thus I have now decided my main preferences will be design courses. Hopefully this will work for me, and I'm sure it will. I fell much more comfortable being in a design course whilst doing a fine art subject, rather then being in a fine art course and being restricted to only one design subject.

I feel, for me, the structure of a design course will work better for me, just for the reason that I am not so good at self directed work....I am so bad with 'starting off'. I would much rather that I be given a brief and be told exactly what I am to design - whilst bringing my own artistic flair and hand-skills into my designs.

Story of my life, changing my mind all the time. But hopefully it will work for me....I think it will.