Question 2’s Most Impassioned Answer
My photoshop students design their own final project. It’s a chance for them to pursue expertise in an area of interest, find their own tutorials, and explore the joyous business side of artistic pursuit: the articulation of a proposal, schedule and deliverables.
One of the questions they must answer is: Why and how is this work important to you personally and artistically?
And this semester’s most impassioned answer, from a student creating a self-portrait web page animation, is:
This semester has been indescribably rough, filled with tragedy and depression, which has led me anxiously astray. I urgently need the artistic therapy of the self-portraiture journey from self-expression to self-realization. An artistic drought has left me crawling the desert, mouth of disintegrating sandpaper, useless and desperately seeking to quench the thirst. For sanity’s sake, I vehemently crave this outlet.
All true and part B.S. at the same time. Who cares? The student took the time to craft a richly storied answer. If that’s not lying to tell the truth I don’t know what is. I’ll take it.
