writing...again.

so, here i am, at my desk again...taking a break from writing. soon this thing...this thing i call my thesis...will be over. it should have been done last semester, but due to lack of motivation and all of the other things going on, like my internship and other class work, i just did not put enough time and energy into the darn thing. luckily, i have an amazing adviser who gave me an extension until this coming friday. i just hope, now that i have the drive to finish it, that it gets done on time, and is still up to par! i was struggling with a lack of resources, but decided to just include that dilemma into my paper and offer suggestions as to why there is not much written about nostalgia in works of art. it's slow going, but thus far i have re-vamped my intro, addressed my dilemma and defined characteristics of nostalgia in works of art, and have started on my artistic influence section. this section starts with some of the female photographers back in late 1800s, early 1900s who were creating photographs for artistic purposes, and proving themselves to critics that their work was "High Art" just as painting was. Pictorialism was their sort of genre and a lot of the photographs have a softness to them. nostalgia was not their goal, but their imagery exudes it. i will talk about a few artists in between these early pictorialists and contemporary artists and then discuss my own work and how it is influenced by them and what i am trying to get across to the viewer. i'm about 1/4 done now, but hope to be more like 3/4 done by the end of today.



this image is one of maggie taylor's. i discovered her in my digital imaging class last semester and she will be included in my thesis. i think her work is just lovely. she has done a series on alice and wonderland that is quite beautiful and original to her style as well. you should check her out. seriously.

well, i just needed a moment of procrastination. thanks.