Forgive my indulgence....

My niece.

I'm in the final week of my last break before my last term of grad school.
In this last term we have no more classes. The first three weeks we are left to perfect and prepare for a public presentation of our best work throughout the year. The last 4-5 weeks is devoted to working on our final projects which are shown in the last two weeks of school.

Without being too dramatic (which is difficult for a performer), it is the end.

I am thoroughly excited. I'm excited to focus on creating work, honing it, playing with it. Essentially I am excited to work at what I've been training in for the past two years. I am also completely buzzing about plotting what to do next. I have my plans in Portugal till October and then hopefully ("grant"-willing) I'll have plans to the end of the year.

*Deep happy healthy creative silly sounding Sign*

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

My friend Erin, reminded me of a wonderful artist here in London. His name is Banksy. He does graffiti on public walls, you can't live in London without seeing some of his work. He truly is, for me, oneof the most impactful artists I have experienced. He makes stencils and then runs around tagging unused walls and sidewalks of london.








I have included some images of his stuff:

This is from Erin's blog regarding the video below.... (by the way, my US friends, fyi. TESCO is a chain supermarket in the UK, like Safeway or Albertsons)
"Here is some street art that I am enjoying at the moment:
I see this Banksy each morning as I go to work. From the website: "What we find to be most important about the video is the diversity of the people who stopped, noticed, and most importantly - appreciated - the work. The video is a terrific testament to the "value" of street art."