Nason April 13th

HEY GUYS!

at this point, i wasnt quite sure which photos to add because i am at a half way point, and dont want to post photos of the project i am working on just yet. I am posting photos from the specola again, but this time specifically ones that relate to the body as a point of possible entry/exit and contact. Though both of my projects for our two studios seem pretty far apart (for Sketchbook i am making drawings of snakes and the body, using the body as a metaphor for entry and exit of lessons learned, emotions...what have you. actually not having anything to do with sex despite how sexual i guess you could make it seem. for Body and Architecture I am essentially making a cloth phone booth that relates to communication/dealing with Obsessive Compulsive-ness in general, from which i kind of suffer if you cant already tell. well, maybe its not obvious, but chatty Cathy over here feels like sometimes it is), they are very related as i have found.

i was inspired to center my projects on major changes that have taken place here in me, and while immediately looking at my projects might not show this exactly, they are both ways for me to work out what i have figured out here. What have i figured out? I feel now, kind of simply put i guess ---because otherwise you're in for a long, boring talk on my mental / emotional states, both of which i am constantly overanalyzing---more clearly than ever the importance of knowing and trusting oneself as their own source of advice, their own authority. I am tired of looking to other people to tell me what to do...and its still taking me time to work through whatever insecurities constantly find me asking other people's approval.

This may seem like a distant connection, but it all comes back, to me, to the human body, and respecting my own (your guys' own, too, for you, respectfully) as my home for the next howevermany years.

I am going to get overwhelmingly corny, but this explains the pictures ive added, perhaps.
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