This past week seemed to be a pretty normal week by Halle standards, but to Audry and I it was very exciting. Mostly our week consisted of working INCREDIBLY hard in the studio. No funny business at all.
Haha. Just kidding.
In all seriousness we have been working very hard and getting a lot done. It has been difficult for me to think about my work in the past week because I am still trying to figure out exactly what my concepts are. I am working with the idea of infection and how the body responds to the infection. I am thinking about interior vs. exterior space and also presentation. There are so many things to be thinking about!!! It was nice to get some feedback from Tim on Sunday because I was beginning to struggle a bit. It is strange to be in a studio environment where your peers aren’t discussing your work with you, and I think that is mainly what I have been having trouble with. But now I have some new questions to ask myself and I think this next week will be a productive one.
The studio here is so cool. There are five rooms that are shared among the students, each student getting their own section to work in. In the main room there is sort of a make shift kitchen that they call the tea room. On the other side of the tea room is where the first year students have their studio space. That is also where the wheels are located. Paula is a first year student at the Burg. She is very sweet and is always so welcoming to Audry and me.
On Friday night Audry and I ended up at Objekt 5, a little pub around the corner from the Burg that plays live music almost every night. We caught the last song of a French Gypsie band, but got to stay for some dancing afterwards. We ended up meeting a few new friends from France. We danced the night away and had a few German beers to cool us off. It was a pretty fun night.
On Saturday Audry and I headed down to the Burg for the Renaissance Festival, it was kind of funny having the Renaissance Festival at a castle, I felt it was quite appropriate. We walked around the festival that had delicious food, very cool clothing and a really interesting band playing on a stage in the back. We forgot to get money before we went and realized that they didn’t accept credit cards during the Renaissance, so we left to go to an ATM. On our way out of the gate we ran into one of the Burg students, Mirium. She is a 2nd year student at the Burg and she shares a studio with Audry. She told us that she was going to Lydia’s (another student from the Burg) flat. She invited us to come meet up with them later so we graciously accepted. We went to the ATM, went back to the festival so Audry could buy a scarf, walked all the way back to our flats, changed, bought a beer at the gas station, and finally did the 25 minute walk to the Burg (again). We met up with Mirium and she took us to Lydia and Bert’s (Lydia’s boyfriend) apartment. We hung out there for a few hours, just talking, drinking wine, and eating sushi and BBQ potato chips (YES, they do have BBQ chips in Germany, I was pretty pumped). They asked us questions about the US, and we asked them questions about Germany. Lydia is originally from Russia and was trying to explain to us the typical foods they eat in Russia. She and Bert invited us back in the morning to have a Russian breakfast with them so we could experience it for ourselves. It was a great way to spend Sunday morning. We had Turkish coffee, crepes and all kinds of things to fill them with. It was great!
Audry and I spent the rest of the day in the studio, taking a short break to make another quick trip to the Renaissance festival. While on our second trip to the festival, we thought it would be cool to see what they had at the top of the Burg. After we climbed the stairs to the top of the wall, we found the children’s section of the festival. They had face painting, and games, but the best part was the jester. He was juggling and BREATHING fire! It was soo cool. He kind of looked a little like Mahlon, so we got his business card. We just thought in case the whole ceramics things doesn’t work out for Mahlon he can learn to breathe fire! ☺
That’s all for this week. Stay classy USA.
6 comments:
You're ceramics are cool! And thanks for all the great pictures of Audry, even if you didn't take them specifically for me.
Glad to see you found a computer!
Wow, the texture of your pieces are beautiful!You should look at the work of WANGECHI MUTU
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/wangechi_mutu.htm
Many of her pieces are about sickness and how the mind and body deal with it...and she uses a lot of mixed media on paper to add tons of texture to the page.
Good Luck!
Melissa
i loooovvveee your pieces! And that boy totally looks like Mahlon!
Thanks for giving a good discription of the studio...that's something I keep forgetting to do!
Thats awesome that you are getting some work done, it looks like its getting really interesting. Fetstivals are cool too, did you do find any other cool crafts other than scarves, maybe pots?
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