"I AM HERE"

                Exiting this course I am entering into a new space in my mind.  In our first assignment of the artist statement I spoke of how much of a novice I was. Relatively I still am but I have come so far and learned so much this semester. I now have the confidence of an artist . This course has triggered things within me that I wish I had but wasn’t sure I did. I have never been the creative type but this class has allowed me to take ideas out of my head and expressed them through different forms of media. The Photoshop assignments were difficult but rewarding. They both took hours of tedious work but I felt I came up with something that was creative with my potato and something funny and introspective with the stamp. The photo assignment wasn’t my thing but I gave it a shot, and I did get my mantra from it. That being said my highlights of the semester was the trip to Museum of Moving images where I fell in love at first sight with the production studio.  Being introduced to it enabled me to think that maybe I can do that someday. Maybe! A job that I could possibly enjoy, something I thought didn’t exist for me. Highlight two was the complete film making process. Our first film assignment of traffic kind of didn’t come out the way I envisioned but coupled with our second film assignment I learned the value of planning out the process which has a tangible effect on the work. Creating a story in my mind putting it down on a story board, casing locations, filming, editing and showing the film in lecture next to some really great work made my journey a bit more accomplished. I realize I’m still at the beginning but I have learned some of the qualities and hard work that it takes, while forming ideas of what I would actually want to do some day. I remember in class during artist statement critiques, someone said i should give my statement a name instead of the generic "artist statement."  I felt as if I didnt earn it so I never changed, but on this exiting statement im naming it "i am here" ....... I enjoyed this class on many levels, I give it an A hopefully it will give me one as well. (or something close)