A new post!

Sorry about the delay in the posts. We are in the last week of class and, well think of it as finals week with a studio class we’ve been busy. We should be able to finish all the projects by the time they are due and I think we have both produced some really good work. More importantly, I have discovered a new process that I am in love with. We have been working with solarplates making prints in a printmaking shop. I really like this process. Because I tend to be really anal and perfectionist when I am able to, I am drawn to processes that have built in variances. I was able to work with the plates and the ink and get some really interesting prints. Ya’ll will see them when we get back.

Everything else is going well. The group dynamics have definitely changed and we are all getting a little tired of each other. Not to be mean but walking through a museum today, one of the group asked who Mary Magdalene was. Normally I would be totally willing to overlook it, not everyone knows who she was. However, we watched the Da Vinci Code the other day and well, if you know it then anyone who sat through that pile of crap should know who the hell Mary Magdalene was. Her case was also not helped by the fact that one room earlier she asked who this Madonna person was.

Today we walked through the Uffizi museum, our last museum in Florence. We are both suffering from a bit of Renaissance art fatigue. In fact, I think we are going to save the Louvre until the end of our stay in Paris so we can actually enjoy it. I think that we will breeze through most of the Renaissance portion of the museum and focus on the ancient and other arts, I am dying for some African art at this point. Then in London, I really want to focus most of our trip to the British Museum to the Egyptian collection. If we were art history students, this would all be great but, we aren’t so we are a little burnt out on Renaissance art.

I am not sure how many more posts will come from Italy but below you can read about our adventures in Pisa and Rome. We’ll be home in a little more than a week and hopefully details have come to you about my birthday party, if not, then let me know and I’ll get them to you.

Ciao,

Shaych