1. Get out of my happy bubble that is Detroit, if only for a little while.
2. Forced to stuff I don't naturally do, like reading a lot, in depth, for research. Make critical artwork that requires risk and forethought.
3. Be able to teach at a University, I tend to like most of the professors that I've met, even if it's a 'bad time to teach'
4. Improve my chances of having access to great opportunities from overseas residencies to funding.
5. Surround myself with a different kind of supportive environment, I've never been to an art school, I've never had to define my 'context' within art, and I've never had a critique so critical that it really made me think about changing everything.
So I've decided to help me make my decision about the Glasgow School of Art I will be flying into Scotland on Sept 20th and returning on the 28th!
I found these nice quotes tonite that I think are pertinent.
Before I travelled my road I was my road. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho
Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly. ~Edward Albee
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber
Alice came to a fork in the road.
"Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat,
"it doesn't matter." ~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. ~Henri Louis Bergson
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau
When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Buddhist Proverb
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