The photo above represents how I have spent my day of preparing portfolio sheets.
It has been a tough day and I'd like to shatter some of these massive flaws in a poor understanding of being an art student.
1 - Art is not always fun. I have spent about 4 hours so far today measuring things with different rulers and cutting tape to the right size to mount prints.
2 - Art doesn't always "just happen" - I still have to finish this sheet and mount another one. That's an hour, maybe two, with all the measuring.
3 - Art isn't always cheap. Prints cost me the best part of £40 last month, and that's only the ones I did professionally. I print a lot from home, for a reduced price and quality.
4 - Art is not always rewarding. I measured something wrong today and so all my measuring has gone to waste for that one wonky line.
I'm being slightly tongue in cheek (what a shocker, eh?) because there are harder things I could have been doing today - like saving lives, saving the global economy, saving damsels in distress, etc.
Yes, I have been able to watch entertaining TV re-runs in this time, such as Charlie Brooker's 2011 Wipe which I completely recommend.
Art is not a "doss subject". I'm in no place, as an art student, to start shooting other subjects down as "doss subjects" (even if I'd love to.) But please, before you start making petty and rude generalisations, ask yourself how much time you'd like to have spent on your knees measuring and sticking shit down, motherfucker. Then go back to your "useful" and "rewarding" job, or raising your equally ignorant children, I'm sure it's sooooooo much fun.
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