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Summertime: A Much Needed Break

So we're about a month and a half into our summer vacation and I hope everyone is enjoying it. For some, it's a great time to kick back, drink a beer, listen to some CCR, meet up with friends and family, go to shows, go somewhere far far away from the photo basement. For others, like myself, it's somewhat of a halt. Considering that most of the seniors from last year are graduating in January, there is undoubtedly a sense of a want to finish up and move on. This is how I've felt of recent weeks (living in my dad's basement, one can understand), however, realizing that only one semester (two for others) stands between you and graduation, it is essential to ease into a much needed break from academia.

I'm not saying shutting off your brain completely is the conclusive element, but rather taking comfort in knowing you got 2 more months before things start heating up again. We're so wound on school and finances that sometimes we forget about the recreational moments that we most wholeheartedly enjoy. So yeah, take a day to sit on your ass, go to the zoo, visit a friend abroad, take a walk with a family member, get to know others. Do something now because honestly it may be a long time before vacation time awaits us in the "real world".

xo George

I know it has been awhile

How does the summer get more crazy then school year? Whew, well it is good to be back on the blog, I hope all of your summers are going well, all the internships, the job hunts, the endless search for meaning!
I would love to give you a word for word description on all the fabulous art I've been making, but let's be honest... it has sadly gotten pushed to the side. It is painful for me to say it, but for those of you in the same boat-- feel no shame! That can happen in school. The rush of the deadlines and crits inevitably ends with a burned out artist. However, what I like to focus on is that creating and thinking are intertwined in every aspect of life.
Maybe my art is taking the form of a conversation, an outfit, sidewalk chalk drawings, or painting my butt wiped-haggard-transportation-device I like to call a car. It is everywhere my friends, it is in our blood. No matter what form you are taking at this point in your life-year-summer-day-hour you are carrying your perspective with you. Your life-lense does not just disappear. But that being said,
do something with it.
Take notes.
Write.
Tag a Do Not Enter Sign (but don't vandalize, it is against the law you know)
Read a book.
Watch people.
Watch yourself.
And then you take it all in, you carry it around and let it grow on you, this changing that we will always be going through. Look and see how you change.
Then show someone, not "reality", everyone knows that is a lie. Show us your own version of truth, because that is what I want to see, be genuine, the world will know. Or at least someone will.
Yours Always,
xoxo
Charlie