#tho i also have intaglio prints :)

[thecatfight2023]

apologies for the delay i didn't want again, i had to hold myself hostage in the ceramics studio thursday night (when I planned to update the bracket and schedule polls) for thesis reasons and didn't end up leaving until 1 30 am so. and then I got drunk last night and also didn't have my computer :) hopefully i'll get them done this weekend but i'm not sure since we're in crunch time for thesis -mod orange

[kim-irl]

i’m taking intaglio, a concrete focused sculpture class, and a digital print class this semester :-) i’m also doing a victorian art history and online anthropology. i have friends in alll my classes luckily. unstable start to the new semester tho. i did get a chain mail necklace from an artist friend, and i got invited to a zine by an instagram mutual which i am excited for. in the free time i am slowly working on a dress up game :-)

[ulubionywuja]

Academy of fine arts and it's quirks

A list of weirdest  things I've experienced or seen as an art student

1. The blood manifesto (obvioustly tw blood)

When I was a junior, my group (graphics students) shared a workshop with the painters. They were asked to paint manifesto paintings that will give professors some idea about the student's goal. One girl had a different idea tho. She collected her blood with a medical syringe and grew collonies of bacteria from said blood for some long ass period of time. Oh and she documented the process and showed these pictures to our professor. The dude was 2 meters tall, bald and buff as fuck so it was interesting watching him almost faint. Yes, the girl passed this assignment.

2. Tea performance

 My academy has two buildings: an old, neo-classical one aka the main building, and a super modern glass building. Both have little art galleries scattered all over them. In one of the bigger galleries, I beleve it’s called “gallery behing the glass”, I saw a dude. Sitting by a tiny Japanese-style table, brewing tea. The table wasn’t there before. All artwors were gone. I shrugged it off, but time passed (we’re talking 8 hours) and he was still brewing tea. Came back the next day. Still brewing. Another day. Yes he was there. It lasted for I believe a week. Later we learned it was some kind of art performance? Don’t ask me I don’t get it either.

3. Dildo plant

This happened in academic drawing class. Our professor didn’t come to work that day, so we only had the assistant to help us - he’s a very nice, polite guy, also deeply christian (but very progressive in general). Assistant guy opened the door to our workshop and what do we see. A dildo. Stuck in a plant pot. Next to a plant. We laughed and didn’t pay much attention - I mean, we draw nude models four times a week, pp isn’t exactly scandalous to us. We all (including the assistant) left the place together. Next time we came there, the dildo dissapeared, even though it was *painfully obvious* that nobody cleaned the workshop in the meantime...

4. Smoke detectors

Artists often smoke. That’s something people know. I don’t, but most of my friends and professors do. Academy was once checked by some health department guys and guess what. Most of the professors amateurly removed smoke detectors in their offices, so they could smoke inside. This entire situation became a meme basically.

5. The Acid Room TM

You think this has some connection to acid the drug? Nope. We literally have an acid room. It’s connected to the Intaglio workshop, it’s full of flat pans filled with nitric acid, we use it to make etching prints. It also has a barrel filled with liquid asphalt and some things to make aquatints with. Basically LOTS of chemicals. If you’re part of the staff, there’s a high chance you’ll spend a lot of time in the acid room, helping younger students, and that can make you a bit high from all the fumes.