School has started here in Brussels, and so far I’m really enjoying it!
Luca, like any school one is new at, is very labyrinthic and cahotic. I still haven't figured out how everything works, but at this point I at least know how to print photocopies and get books from the library! Small steps.
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The classes have been interesting: I have two afternoons of studio practise (for model drawing and making zines), two theoretical subjects (Critical Theory and Artistic Research), one class where we work on our main graduate project and a workshop were we team up with people from other faculties and create a performance.
Two of these classes I mentioned are elective, meaning, I chose them from a list of possible subjects. To help the new students know what to pick there was a big session on the first day where each elective teacher presented their class. I don’t know if this is common in other universities, but I found it very funny to have the teachers standing there trying to sell their classes to us.
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I also got this daruma doll from my new classmate Ming. I had to make a wish and paint the left eye. I will paint the right eye when it comes true! (I'm wishing I'll finish my master thesis!)
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Workwise, I have good news! My book is out! Miau! Miau!
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It's a (mostly) silent comic book, about a day in the life of two cats and a child.
This book came about because of CLAN, a project studying the relationship between children and their pets, invited me to make a book inspired by their research.
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Although the main characters are also very much inspired on my two boys:
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I just realized I had written to you last year about how I would like to make a book about my pets. It was way before CLAN contacted me, but maybe there's something to learn from it — voicing one's dreams in newsletter format works. ahah
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Two nice things I saw this month:
I finally watched the film Turning Red. I know I'm late to the party, it came out last year, but if you are like me and haven't see it yet, I'm here to tell you you should. Specially if you were a teenager in the 2000's, this was tailor made for my generation.
I went to see a performance of this play. It was a tiny stage, built like those for puppet shows, and he would show the story in a quick sucession of images printed on paper, paired with music and the actors' recorded voices. Everytime a print left the "screen" it would fly out to the floor, so at the end all the "movie stills" were everywhere. I'm not sure how to explain it better than this. I had never seen anything like it. It was very funny, and here's a picture.
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