I am still blown away by the fact that it is 2013 already. Even more blown away that in 100 short days I will have completed my degree at NSCAD. It is so nice coming into 2013 having had a very relaxing break after an incredibly busy and stressful 2012.
Now that everyone has gotten their Christmas presents I can finally post the picture of the earrings that I laser cut at the end of the semester. I did some black acrylic ones as well but I really love how the walnut ones turned out.
I am so excited for all of the possibilities and great things to come this year. This final semester at school is sure to be the best yet. I am finally taking enamelling which I am already in love with. This is the one class that I just couldn't wait to take. I spent my afternoon today doing some fun samples (not the samples I need to do for my homework this week, but samples nonetheless!)
In less than two months I have a show at the Anna Leonowens Gallery which I am not as panicked for as I thought I would be. I will be posting lots of pictures as the work progresses in the following weeks.
As far as school goes I am also in studio this term which I am also excited about but with mixed feelings. It's strange to be in studio level being an interdisciplinary student rather than a jewellery degree student. I get the distinct feeling that not all of the degree students feel that I deserve to be in there with them. That's okay though, I will have fun proving them wrong.
It's unfortunate that interdisciplinary work isn't promoted and encouraged more, I really wish that it was. That's one of the things I loved about Sheridan is that we were in such close quarters with the other studios. In fact I have heard that the students this year are all participating in a big cross disciplinary collaboration project. I am so jealous, I so wish that such a project existed while I was studying there. I don't know if it's just because this type of thing has been on my mind a lot lately but the work of Pia Wüstenberg just came to my attention. She fuses several media together to create these fantastic stacking vessels.
It is hard to say exactly what I am going to be doing when I leave NSCAD. To be honest, I thought I would have a much better idea by now. All I know is that I love working with metal, but I still like glass, I even sort of fell in love with textiles along the way. I do keep coming back to glass as my preferred medium, I think mostly because it's the medium that my personality can relate to the most. But I have always wanted to explore lots of materials and processes, to the point where I can get very easily overwhelmed. Even back at Sheridan I didn't want to be pinned down as just a glass artist, and still now I don't want to be known as just a jeweller because there is so much to explore beyond that. I would so much rather be overwhelmed by possibilities than to purposely limit myself by exclusivity in material.
What will my work look like in 5 years? Who knows. My work is constantly evolving and I love finding inspiration in something new. I spent a good part of this evening obsessing over pictures of quilts. Will this new obsession manifest into something great one day? Perhaps. All I know is that I love that I can explore anything that I want and that would have never happened without an interdisciplinary approach to my work.