Sporadic musings of a girl shaped person (zingiber) wrote, @ 2004-03-11 14:04:00

art Speak
I hate the way that artists always refer to everything as a 'space'. Used sparingly, the term is fine...... but when it's applied to hallways and bathrooms it gets a little old.

"This is my bathroom space; I use it to create!"

We have cubicles at uni. We're aloud to do anything we want with them. So, to have a little joke with myself, I've painted "a space" on one of the walls. No one else gets it of course, even if they did, I doubt they'd think it was funny. But that's not the point.

I'm already making digs and I've been there for less than two weeks. Art jargon annoys me, and my art helps me to get over it.


I'm feeling stupid today. Inarticulate. I'm sure it will pass. I'm just not feeling comfortable in my surroundings (yet); all my words are getting stuck somewhere between my brain and my mouth. Right now, if I were compile a 'Dictionary of Gingers Vocabulary' I think it would be about ten small pages long. O.K. Make that eight.

My life is a surrealist painting....
Either that, or Duchamps 'Bride Stripped Bare'.... All the better for having been broken

	Dont despair umas 2004-03-11 04:28 (link)
	Its part of the package. Artists need to get inatriculate at time. Your art should take care of it. Think that you are lucky to feel carefree some of the time. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	giish 2004-03-11 11:09 (link)
	laughing at the bit about the bathroom space. space? I have no space. art room is currently on hold until I can decide if I want to stay there or not... I'm bad for decisions. I think. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Happy Birthday! claudiusmaximus 2004-03-12 09:53 (link)
	I got an email reminder so it must be true! I hope you have cake, cake is groovy. (Reply to this) (Thread)

vertigoslip 2004-03-12 13:32 (link)

"I hate the way that artists always refer to everything as a 'space'. Used sparingly, the term is fine...... but when it's applied to hallways and bathrooms it gets a little old." Lol. How true, how true. I agree also with the last statement completely. Sometimes deconstructing something....y'know, I don't know how to finish this statement without sounding trite or overly influenced by self-help-arama novellas. On an unrealted note, happy birthday! Another in the growing list of March-born people.... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	anorthernsoul 2004-03-12 14:09 (link)
	Happy birthday Ginger! May the cake be with you ;) *hugs* (Reply to this) (Thread)

	asparagus 2004-03-12 19:08 (link)
	*throws assorted streamers* Happy Birthday Ginger! May your day be filled with dancing abstract Cossacks a la Kandinsky, and bright sunflowers like a Van Gogh. Okay that was just a little bit silly of me :) And eat all the fairy bread you can stomach. Oh yes :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

	before_dawn 2004-04-18 14:03 (link)
	Ginger, How the hell did I delete you from my Friends list? Just shoot me please!! If you don't mind, is it ok to add you back???Sorry about that!!! Must have been a moment of delusion or something. *mm (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: zingiber 2004-04-18 19:40 (link)
	8) No problem! I thought you must have done it due to my lack of updates (which is entirely understandable). I think I'm ready to start updating again. 8) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: before_dawn 2004-04-19 00:40 (link)
	Huh? No it must have been a big boo boo!! Like a big mistake. Apologies again. Welcome back too!! And I have no idea about "Space" I'm the type of person who's always "Lost in Space" an airhead but I think it's just 'cause I'm overthinking or overcreative in my head. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: zingiber 2004-04-19 01:17 (link)
	Lost in space? ;) I can totally identify. I had been thinking that I was stupid..... But maybe not. I'm intelligent, just not intellectual. I don't know if that's a good thing or not. If I was more intelletual, I might be more articulate... Oh well. You're not an airhead! There seems to be all sorts of stuff going on up there! you might be a 'matterhead'. ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: before_dawn 2004-04-19 01:27 (link)
	I love the coin you termed. A Matterhead. is it do you think like a Matterhorn? maybe I can have a matterhorn to go with the matterhead!! or a madhatterhead!! LOL ohhh fun with words (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: zingiber 2004-04-19 01:42 (link)
	A madhatterhead! That's the best! 8) How does a matterhorn think I wonder? Thinking like a mountain....... Slow and wise. I don't think that's me somehow! Well, maybe the former... ;) (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: before_dawn 2004-04-19 07:17 (link)
	'ohhh well the matterhorn at disneyland is fast & furious with a big saskwatch yelling bear roar it's a rollercoaster with a big splash of water at the bottom so it doesn't have to be slow & wise it can be for the young (at heart) and racey!! now does that fit you better? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)