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Yes! Yes! Yes! Thanks to MICA they made the most flattering comment about my art and me in general at the most recent National Portfolio Day at DC. So basically for each school we wanted to meet with we all stood in line for hours on end to have portfolio reviews with admissions of each school.

With MICA ! it was amazing! It was something that more of giving you more inspiration and less actually only praising or shooting you down. Like some schools MICA is very progressive so they don’t see kids as just kids, they see them as individual voices so their theory is that you can personalize your schooling to fit your need. Since now and days jobs aren’t looking for your title anymore, they are looking at your work. So really they  were really out there to help you out.

What they said about me was first very informative and really eye opening! I haven’t really truly realized how my art is really displayed or photographed. Really they MICA guy was telling me how in my older work, it was very static,romantic,beautified…but what else about you comes through the pieces? They said, there is an clear evidences that you are technically skilled but how can you used that to navigate through to your personal voice? With the more current work like the rooms that i have going right now he can see the more creative,risky side of me. Its less of the “ooo…its beautiful and that’s just an amazingly detailed” to “why is this put there?” it just raises more questions that the viewers can respond more to. Also he made me think more with really me as an artist using my rooms as a subject piece like in photography. He said make photographs showing the narrative like how a viewer would see it….basically really interact with it.

BUT my most favorite piece he told me is how he describe me piece as it has a sense of nostalgia, Baroque, Victorian…. he basically references to my outfit and how playful yet formal it was and how that playful outgoingness should be more evident in my work. Which I completely agree with that statement. So far I felt that I’m just doing things that I know I can do well since our class is graded on how many completed pieces so sadly this stops me from trying risky things sometimes but for MICA opening that option i would love to do that now! Hopefully one day I will be blessed to go there and really experiences what he is telling me but for how..more high school.