February 22, 2023

Hi,

It’s been a minute! I’m almost mid way through my 2nd semester at UIC’s art school. I’m now in their BFA program and it has been keeping me busy. I’ve also had the great opportunity to work in the Moving Image and Photography Labs.

I’m in the “burnout stage” of my education and spent took the morning off to work on projects and homework at home. It has been a nice break but I’ll head out for my photo class in about 50 minutes. There’s never enough time in the day.

Currently I’m working on some personal projects in animation, photo, and film production. Not much to update right now but I am investing all working hours to making art and duplicating cassettes without days off. This is the busiest schedule I’ve ever had but I am enjoying it even if my body hurts, and I don’t get enough sleep some nights, it feels like I’m a machine that just keeps working. Yesterday. I spent about 6 hours of frame by frame digital animation and while my shoulder hurt by the end of the night I feel like I made something I can be proud of.

Anyway, here’s a phone photo of one of a couple of my darkroom prints from this semester. Laterssss.