October 7, 2008

12:25 AM


s p a c e o u t

Today could qualify as my most spaced-out day ever. Final/last-minute preparations for the final art interview was done over the last few weeks. Very notable choingings happened all in the space of last week.


Preparing the Candidate Research Booklet (CRB) all in 1 day [plus studio work].. was in school from around 8am - 10pm, but somehow in the end I got it completed.
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Preparation for the exhibition on friday wasn't as rushed, but it was still really draining. Even after setting everything up from the morning, we had stay through the whole exhibition, which ran till 8. Went out for supper, reached home at around 10+. I wanted to start work on another piece straight away, but Mr. Sleepy got the better of me. (Note that me being sleepy is quite a serious thing, considering the times I sleep at..)
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So, that left saturday and sunday to complete whatever I had left to do. Saturday saw me waking up in the afternoon as usual, stoning around a heck lot, then getting to work on the pieces straight after dinner. Worked all the way to 4.30am, completing 2 pieces of work. Pencil drawings. Theoretically that would equate to around 4 hours a piece, but I had a feeling I was stoning around a bit here and there(again), so it might be around 2.5-3 hours each. Either way, they turned out really well. Proud of them. =) That left me 3 pieces left to do.
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Woke up on Sunday at 1.30pm. Stoned around. Left the house at 3.30pm to get some supplies for my piece. Ended up walking around a bit, because the hardware store that was meant to be there WASN'T there. Luckily/Coincidentally, the shop relocated across the street, and it was pure luck/fate that noticed the shop's name on the signboard, or else I'd have wasted another hour looking for another shop.
Went home after that, got my stuff, headed out the house again to school. I was planning to complete 2 pieces on that day, while either leaving the last piece out or rushing it out the next day(though it felt near impossible). Somehow, one of my pieces ended up triplifying, so instead of 1 cardboard man, I now had to make 3. (They not as easy to make as it sounds) Time whizzed on.. 6pm.. 7pm.. 8pm.. 9pm. Went up to the gallery from the art room to continue working. (The school is freaking dark without the lights on)
I had originally planned on getting the work done by 10pm. 11pm at latest. But at that rate, it couldn't be done. At 11pm I was kind of panicking. All that was on my mind was just going home. Sounds illogical, but that was my state of mind at that time. Twisted from all that stress. After finishing the paintjob on my cardboard army, I had to find a way of getting them to stand. That took more time off the clock. And I had to repair one of my pieces that was literally falling apart. Everything was FINALLY done at 1am. No more, no less. Getting that cab and heading home was really a relieving moment for me. Thinking back, I can still remember it. But thats probably because it was just 1 day ago. But I digress.
Ok, so not EVERYTHING was done. Note that the 1 more piece I had wanted to do still wasn't complete yet. DOOMDOOOMDOOM. So I got home at around 1.30am, with my parents worrying as heck(sorry guys!). My dad was nice enough to go buy me some dinner. I went on to complete that piece-that-I-wanted-to-complete-by-today-but-didn't-get-to-do-so, finishing at around 4am. Although I'm not entirely sure, I had a feeling that the reason my dad stayed all the way up till 3am 'watching tv' was to keep me company. Warm feeling ftw.
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Art interview day
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I shall do this up tomorrowjust leave it as it is, but this is just a summary:
Woke up at normal school-day time
Took all my art stuff with me to school
Set up stuff till 8
Went home, reached home at 8.30
Slept from 8.30-10.30
Completed final piece from 10.30 to 12.10
Took cab to school
Printed out final piece
Waited outside the art gallery for impending doom
Time came, had interview, was really awesome, opposite of above said doom
Hanged around in school for a bit to clean up art room space
Went home satisfied