I just passed 7 Days of artistic hammer-time, finishing the last 15, i think (if you really want to know the number count them in the overhead photo) readings. Thus I have to start typing my proposal for my thesis, which hopefully will be done next week.
This might seem boring (and pseudo-intellectual) to the average sane person, but i find it interesting to the point where it is about to affect my emotional stability. For whoever is wondering, I presume at this point (more or less) that I'm using my thesis as an excuse to give my very biased opinion on the state of type within a post-structuralist context in contemporary culture (2009 onwards) after post-modernism/deconstruction.
+5 points to my image as an art intellectual / appearing relevant within a pretty useless field.
On the practical, and probably more relevant side, I finished all 18 (originally 20) pages of my 52cm x 52 cm self- deprecating collection of poems Liewe Schalk Venter, Groete Schalk Venter
I’m going to start the printing probably next week some time.
If anyone want me to make them a screen print by hand (of any of the seven big ones below) on El Toro 200g paper (52cmx52), just drop me a line on Facebook or email, and I'll be happy to do an art trade (even for a sketch). If anyone wants one whose not an artist, you can just give me the monies for the paper and ink, which is probably R8 / R10 in total.
I'm going to print several on newsprint to be distributed with the Papergirl Project in Jan/Feb as well.
