This project is a yearlong online written and visual document of my voyage towards completion of my MFA at School of the Art Institute of Chicago in May 2011.

RYTHM33, April 8th, 2010

RYTHM33, April 8th, 2010
photo:Miao Jiaxin

Saturday, July 24, 2010

TWENTY ONE: Reality TV reality//Empty Heart


nyc. photo Katya Grokhovsky

Usually. Coffee pot of Illy. espresso. Black with one teaspoon of white crystal sugar. A large cup. Some skim milk. Sunday. sunny outside. Air conditioned bedroom. Mess. A glass of pomegranate juice. Multigrain slice of bread. Avocado and tomato. salted. In bed with Hulu website. Reality TV? Reality. If I can Dream. So you think you can dance. true Beauty. Work of Art. addiction established. why? The present like no other. Unattainable. Where? Reality seems like a long-lost-forgotten concept. we watch it.Unrealistically -realistically inclined. Looking out the window. Is that reality? My body, awake and curious, is that reality? Time frame stretched.read my palm. whatever it holds. Forgive poetic lyrical.

So I feel like I have settled back into it. Blueberry happiness to be here, Chicago, SAIC. home soft blanket cashmere feelings and overwhelmed with some kind of lemon + honey juice love for it all. Rustic Sun helping, grouped feelings divide, let it be for now. ready forever? Standing upright.Ready Always. Run for it wisely. Incredibly attached desire to create it, now. specifically begin. Start at the end. sometimes running steadily on empty. reading much. conscious of time lost and gained due to intervals, time as a tool. waste it. wasting it. Slowly, lazily, awakening broadly. Eyes wide opened to morning. Let's go!

who will make it there first and what will you do and how. who do you know who can you learn to know. race against your clock. fill every hour with things. your career. fame? taking it to the limit of those dreams. what are they made of. be careful what you wish for. being here. feel alive. like it can all happen. too many people in this world would die for this opportunity? do you want this or ...who would die? die? die trying get it drive want it get it die for it go after it...true beauty comes from within, looking good and fake it. make it. success depends on you and hard work. determination, going for what you want, believe in you....pfffft. reality TV words buzzing in the room and in the orbit of my mind. American and achieve. whenever I land here, I feel as if I am at the threshold , knees bent, at the line. Ready to jump...

refresh. restart. Power...... pausing.

Attended: Booze and Bacon @Slow
Attended: Closing @ Sullivan Galleries
Summer Stone Theory Institute public lectures

Attending Coming up:

summer studio event@ Sullivan Galleries
MCA Here Not There opening

Doing:
Conversation @Still Action, Summer Studio, Sullivan Galleries, SAIC
11.30 am 1st August

1st August, EmptyHeart, one night event in the empty lounge room of My Apartment
7pm-12am
Drawing Lab and Fictional Future Palm reading and Sub-conscious Storytelling