School Art School

Today I had class at 9:00. Then I went home and took a nap!

Then I met up with Nicholl at the swedish candy store to go to the 19th arrondissement to the art class that I'm auditing that I haven't been to in 3-4 weeks (Opera, sick, then I had a field trip to a movie last week). Today we made portrait collages.

Nicholl told me that the area we live in is where all the hip youngin's (artists, musicians) are trying to live now. They call it SoPi because it's south of Pigalle. They like it because all the old legendary musicians and artists lived there.

Teacher's (Marie Lepetit) art studio

My collage
Teacher let them smoke in the studio


She has a beautiful siamese cat named Ombre- which translates to shadow.

You can't really see that well, but part of the head of the man in my collage is purple, and it says "dans" which means in- which was done purposely as the theme which is "inside the head".. most of it is psychological imagery, and the "dans" draws attention to the fact there's a symbolic intent behind most of it. also if you look closely i cut out 2 windows in the upper left hand corner and there is a head peaking through one of them and 2 people kissing in the other window. there's tree symbolism for inner growth, a man with an exploded head of objects- meaning chaos in the mind, some optical illusions, rorschach blot, as well as 3d stuff (i made the man's eyes look as if they're behind 3d glasses) i guess it has to do with perception and the internal aspects of it, how meaning is made.

tomorrow morning i'm going to the Musée Delacroix.