Things have been good. I'm liking my class schedule still. Things are smoothing out with LW and I've been keeping busy.

I watched the Obama speech tonight and I thought it was very impressive to see 80,000 people holding signs that say CHANGE. I hope my mom was watching that. I feel like all these people putting mental energy towards something new will create a collective consciousness of energy and will cause it to occur. It really is that simple. Humans have lost touch with just how psychic we are. 

 I am hoping something revolutionary will happen so I can make propaganda prints and just live in my print shop with whoever I love.

 le sigh. romanticizing.

I am back into printmaking mode. It feels manic and amazing. I have some good ideas I'm getting excited about. My next print will focus on my interpretation of the term"still life". The phase in our existence where we still  physically exist in life, but are no longer living. I'm not only talking about fresh death- I'm talking about those who are helpless- often orphans, elderly and those stuck in poverty due to economic bureaucracy. I am thinking of doing a series hinting on others who are in "still life". Those who are dying due to lack of universal healthcare. Kids in foster care still living shit lives due to financial exploitation...

 ( I have been thinking more about children lately, I guess all the classes I've been taking on art and education and psychology... I am realizing how I am going to be able to pick up on so many things through their behavior and art that I really want to be there for them. I start realizing I was once one of the kids I'll be teaching, and I wonder  how many teachers could pick up on things from my personal life- if I acted oddly or had tendencies... I know sometimes when I get really fucked up I have the tendency to talk about suppressed occurrences, if even as a metaphor)... 

Those with Ahlzheimers, those who are on the death penalty. Of course, some feminist prints. Other minority oppression prints- especially some old school mexican revolution mixed with modern day mexico, both urban and rural. I like the imagery. I want to  place more notice on images of the "enablers" like preachers, govt officials, the rich, etc who will promise you anything you wanna hear so you'll blindly believe you can rely on these forces of "help" and don't have to save your own damn self. Making prints about actively thinking. Ad-like things, collage type things, beautiful imagery, hand drawn rendering mixed with digital copying. I can't believe I get so turned on typing about printmaking passion. 

 My relationship with LW works rather well during the school year since we both disappear and do our own things to get work done. We'll go a couple days without really talking  but we come together and find ourselves in the same sweet situation before we part again.