I finished “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” and started “No Exit.”  I like them but don’t know if I will use them in my essay because the sources I’m already using fit the theme of the paper more explicitly.

I worked on 7 paintings simultaneously.  I worked for 9 hours straight listening to the “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” audiobook on youtube.  1 of the paintings was just a surface I prepped and it didn’t dry in time. It was a folding plastic letter holder that looks like a small laptop, I don’t know what I will paint on it yet, forgot to take a picture of it.

Heidi said my work might be “too kitschy,” but I don’t think she really knows what kitsch is.  It seems to be something she’s insecure about, because she also stated that she was afraid of her own work being “too kitschy.”  So I see that as a completely arbitrary criticism.

After critique, I think I need to make the big painting tie the rest of the pieces together somehow?  Or maybe I don’t need to do that.

I’m at home now and found an old painting of our solar system I did in 2003, when I was 6.  I think it’s funny how much my current work has in common with it.  A lot of primary color usage.  Heavy red and blue.  Gold paint over the red and silver paint over the blue.  I wasn’t even thinking about this painting, but it’s like I picked up where I left off or something and my current work is some kind of sequel to this.

I’ll take more pictures in better lighting later.

I don’t think the art critique was too helpful this week.  But the writing workshop was very helpful, it actually gave me a sense of what I was doing right and what to do next with the paper.  Like slimming down the preamble and cutting out distracting sources.  Just focusing in.  Also, beefing up my essentialism research if I want to use that.

Shaun gave a good name suggestion based on a theory I mentioned about “If we live in a simulation then we should still try in life because our 4-dimensional selves might be paying good money for their subscriptions and would be disappointed if we gave up or killed ourselves.”  His name suggestion was “How to make your 4-d self proud.”  So I’ll use that title in a future work probably unless if for some reason I incorporate more of my own imaginative brooding into this essay.

On Wednesday I made a zine with the comic club using Hypnagogia as a theme: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4iku7nZU6uvM001MWNTaXFDZW9NZEVRb1kwRE9ZRFVDMWpR/view?usp=sharing

Christina Bothwell (American, born 1960) , While You Were Sleeping , 2007 .

Gotham Games, Disney Interactive Studios and Doki Denki Studio, Piglet’s Big Game, February 2, 2003

(Damn, I just found that Winnie the Pooh gif, and I got flashbacks to playing the game as a kid when I saw it, I assumed that game wasn’t real until now)