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Smål fox! You’ll see more of it soon…

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Thanks for everyone for following me here! This week has been definitely tough… but not all weeks and all days can be good. However, this morning I woke up feeling a little bit better. And painting and walking in nature helps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . #drawing #sketchbook #illustration #traditionalart #traditionaldrawing #digitalart #digitaldrawing #doodle #taide #kuvittaja #illustrator #イラスト #イラストグラム #イラストレーター #創作イラスト #イラスト好きな人と繋がりたい #illustratorsoninstagram #artistsoninstagram #illustagram #wallpaper #lineart #구림 #鯉 #만화 #painting #design #characterdesign #comic (at Ylöjärvi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CSOlUzzAkuB/?utm_medium=tumblr

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July 21st

It’s Wednesday, which means one more (work) week will be over soon. My second last week at work... And then I’m free for a whole month before starting university. I can’t believe I’m going back to university. I went to celebrate a friends birthday on Saturday, and one of my other friends is also starting uni again. He’s my age. It felt good that I’m not the only “mature” student returning to school.  Before anything else, I feel happy to have some other content in my life that the job at the office. It was a temporary solution, and now that temporary time came to an end. Now life starts. And I hope that life will be full of inspiration and passion. I guess life is never without worries - whenever education, work and social life is in balance, there will arise issues in romantic relationships... Life has to stay in balance I guess. And I want to strive for a happy life, so I’ve started pondering how much strain and frustration should I endure before it’s a good decision to walk away. I’m turning 25 this year, and I guess it is the age where I have to start thinking what are the most important things I want my future to have. Is it a career? Family and children? Travelling? And whatever other options and possibilities there are. Autumn has always been the time of change and new beginnings for me. All the best things have always happened in Autumn, so I’m looking forward to all new beginnings and adventures this Autumn holds for me...

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When people tell me, they wish they could paint and draw too and that they have no talent, I wish I could tell them about the pain and struggle of creating…

It’s never easy. It’s repeating the same things over and over again, until you learn to memorize how to tilt the brush just in the right angle and add the right amount of water and pressure.

I’m not talented naturally. My biggest talent is patience and diligence. Intelligence or talent on it’s own isn’t worth much - it needs nurturing, motivating and growth to bloom. And when it blooms, beautiful things happen.

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14th of July

It’s been a long while. And a lot has happened.  Last time I visited the page was somewhere between February and March. Back then everything was white and numb. I was quite unhappy at my job at the office, and I was planning to escape and apply to a university, and just hope for the best... Half a year has passed since then, and I did apply for a university. And I got in! So starting from next month, I’ll be a student in the University of Helsinki, Language department, and I’ll start with Lithuanian as my main language and Chinese as my side language.  This also means that July is my last month at work. It feels both sad and amazing; I like all my co-workers and the atmosphere is very lovely, but the job itself just isn’t for me. I don’t get to do the things that I enjoy. But I’ve learnt so much at this job. And now, during my last month, I’m training the person who will take over this job after I go. And I’ve learnt that I quite enjoy helping and training people, which I didn’t expect at all! All these small changes also have made me think about my relationship with my boyfriend... He is so drastically different from me, and especially now that my life is going to change a lot, and so does his at the same time, how will it affect us. I’m moving to a student house. He’ll get himself a studio apartment.  When I had a week off from work, I went hiking and adventuring and started craft projects. Hi wanted to stay home and play games with friends. I go to parties, cafes, restaurants and places with my friends. He doesn’t really care to see friends and rather spends time at home or with his family. What’s too different? What’s enough to follow my heart and be selfish? I do not know the answers... But I think life is unexpected enough to reveal the truth and the right path soon.

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Personal development

Found on Pinterest, feel free to answer the questions too! 1. Write three things you like about your appearance. 2. What is your favourite aspect about your personality? 3. What do you think your biggest weakness is? How can you work on improving this? 4. Who are you most grateful for having in your life? 5. Is the something you keep ruminating about that happened a long time ago? 6. How would your best friend describe you? 7. I am the happiest when... 8. What have you achieved that you’re proud of? 9. I feel peaceful when... 10. What makes you unique? 11. What goals are you working towards? 12. What are things you need to stop doing that are making you unhappy? 13. What’s your favourite thing to do to treat yourself? 14. When do you feel the most confident? 15. What does your family love about you? 16. What’s the latest charitable thing you’ve done? What is the next charitable thing you’ll do? 17. What parts of your life are you happy with? 18. How would your life change if you were more confident? 19. Why do you think self worth is important? 20. What do you need to forgive yourself for? 21. What was the happiest time of your life and why? 22. What are traits that you admire in someone? 23. What parts in your life would you want to work on? 24. When was the last time you were kind to a stranger? 25. What habit do you need to stop and what habit do you want to start?

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08.03.2021

Time has passed, and Spring has started making her way to here North. It’s still cold and snowy outside, but the days are longer and the sun is higher on the sky.  With the sun and Spring, my heart has grown more restless too. Every day is a challenge to come to the office, and I count the minutes until I can leave. I live for the weekends; the early, warm mornings when I can go for a morning run and have a longer shower after. Make coffee and cook a hearty breakfast, taking my time. Maybe bake some cookies for the afternoon tea. I miss being able to study for hours in one go, and stop to actually think about what I’m reading. Without any rush. The more I’ve read and learnt about linguistics, especially the language history and language and culture, the more I want to know about them. I feel inspired, motivated and passionate about language. And every Sunday, it kills me inside to know that next morning I have to come to the office. I remind myself hat I’m incredibly lucky to have a stable full-time job in the situation the world is in now. I remind myself, that as long as I keep studying and learning, I can go back to university and study linguistics and that I will get accepted to the program. I’m not that old yet, and I have finally found something that I feel passionate about. I’m on the right track.

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17.02.2021

Opportunity or a threat? Dangerous or just bluffing?  It’s easier to put distance between two people and stay silent than to say you don’t want to hear from them any longer. Silence scares people - I think silence is often more difficult to endure than constant talking and noise. Silence makes people panic - maybe that’s why suddenly I got a text again.  I didn’t want to receive a text. I wanted to take everything that is mine and disappear and become strangers again, but when do things ever go according to the plan. Now I’m back to walking on egg shells... And it hurts. It’s tiring to constantly watch over my shoulder. I think I can do this one more time. After that, no more. After one more I will disappear and walk away. And change my number.

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10.02.2021

It’s sunny outside. I’m looking out of the window, seething with frustration and hoping to be somewhere else.  I’m at the office, and the whole day so far has been people telling me to make things quicker, better, faster, more efficient,... Things, that are completely out of my control. Like delays due to weather conditions in mid-Europe.  So here I am sitting, in my office room, sipping tea and hoping to get another job or to be accepted to university. My supervisor is at lunch, and I think I’ll go soon too. And watch tiktoks to escape the reality that is today and people telling me to become a small god.  But at least the sun is shining. So I can watch out of my window and know, that if I endure my mundane life for about fifty years, I get to enjoy slow walks under that sun. It would be ideal, that the next fifty-ish mundane years would be spent doing something enjoyable, but life’s not always fair nor is it easy, so as long as I make enough to pay the bills, have fun sometimes and be able to provide for at least one person beside myself, that should be enough. Enjoy the sun!

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09.02.2021

I think it’s been about exactly one year since this pandemic started. I started at my current job the 1st of March, 2020, and I worked at a “normal” office environment with all my colleagues for maybe two weeks, before the government ordered everyone who can do their job from home, to stay at home. So, nearly everyone from my office is working remotely and the building is very quiet and peaceful. I have gotten used to it by now, and I enjoy it.

I have always been able to concentrate better in a peaceful and quiet environment. I start feeling stressed and worn out if there are too many people and too many things going on around me at the same time. So this remote work time has actually been very enjoyable for me; being by myself at the office, taking care of everything at my own space without too many distractions.

It also makes me a bit apprehensive about how it’ll feel going back to how things were... There will be at least two people sitting in the same room with me, and at least 30 more people at the office. I don’t know how to feel about it... Does anyone else feel the same way? That they’d actually rather work alone or with just one other person? 

I really hope I’ll get into the university program that I’m applying to. It’d start in September, so then I wouldn’t have to continue working an office job, and I think being around people would be more enjoyable if I was doing something that I’m actually passionate about.

But hey, if you are a bit like me let’s connect..! I’m into languages and cultures, hiking and running, art, theatre, fashion, comics, ... And am just generally quite chill.

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All photos are mine

Insta: jessieheh or likki_art

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05.02.2021

Friday! Finally it’s Friday, I have been waiting Friday since last Sunday. Today has been luckily a bit more chill at work. However, my mind is busier than ever. I have thought about making a portfolio. I started putting together a website and an Etsy store to sell prints and paintings, and I think a portfolio would be a nice thing to add onto the website. I’ve actually been browsing some design and graphic job openings and even applied for one, but didn’t get picked. I think one big reason is that I have nothing to showcase my work with. So of course possible employers aren’t going to pick me. A portfolio, maybe a blog with photographs since I take many photos. I can post them here too if people are interested. But yes, either way, I could post updates there whenever I upload my social media. Or when I have something cool I want to share with the world... It would be a bit more sophisticated than these texts; these are just me rambling and ranting about life. Many days I think, what I would do if I didn’t have to worry about money. And this links straight to what I mentioned above. I’d love to focus on drawing and making comics, and putting up my website and store, but working full-time leaves very little time to do that and have a social life. And it’s incredibly frustrating. I draw almost every day, but never draw anything finished. Just lots of roughs and sketches. And millions of ideas that I end up forgetting. This weekend I will go to visit my parents, and we’ll go skiing. Not slopes, but cross-country - the best kind! I know that’ll help me to clear my head, maybe help me come up with a timetable for the Spring. There will be lots of things happening; the biggest one being the entrance examination for university. And I really want to get in! Linguistics... And hopefully graduating as a translator or an interpreter. But we’ll see. First step would be to gather the time and energy to study. If you’re also applying, studying or just interested in linguistics and want to find someone to hype up languages, please contact me through here or any of my social media! Insta: likki_art Twitter: likki_art

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02.02.2021

Remember, that how people act towards others is a reflection of themselves. Most of the time. Sometimes it’s good to take a look in a mirror and think back to how you have acted towards them.  I did that - I looked into the mirror and really pondered if I’m a bad employee and not do things properly. But if I forward his question to the contact, and give him back their reply, and he still asks me to give him a different answer... Is it really my fault or is he just infuriatingly stubborn and can’t accept the answer. Opinions are welcome. But I’d like to think I’ve done my part and can’t make up an answer that’d please him. It’s snowing again. Which is nice. The sky is white, the ground is white,... And I just want to sit in front of a window wrapped in a blanket and stare into the whiteness. I don’t like being here at the office doing tasks for other people and having them get angry at me for the answer the client gave. Talk about shooting the messenger. I want to move to Japan. I really do. I know it wouldn’t be easy and definitely will require a character change (minimum a character check) from me... But I want to go. At the back of my mind, the stress about studying for the entrance exam to get into the “linguistics and Japanese” - program is giving reminders of itself many times a day, but while I’m at the office I have to try and ignore it. Right now, I have an hour and forty minutes left before I can go home. Tonight I will try to go to bed earlier for sure - last night I couldn’t fall asleep. So, today I’ve been a bit sluggish and exhausted. But almost done!

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01.02.2021

It's the first of February today. Monday. Monday equals tired, at least in my books. I'm sitting at my office chair for eight hours for the next five days to come, then have two off, and it all starts again. And again. And again... The lockdown and the whole covid-19 situation has been going on for about one year now. It's become quite normal by now, and I don't really miss the "old" life anymore. After all, one year ago I was still at university. living in Cardiff in my horrible student apartment. With Mike though, which was amazing. I miss him. I think he's the only thing/person I miss in the UK. Oh, and London too. Other than Mike and London, I hated my life in the UK. People tend to think UK is somehow this amazing and wealthy place, but having seen the reality, it's one of the last places on Earth where I'd spend my days. Except London. London is a magical place, but only if you're rich. I think one year ago, I was visiting Finland for my interview for this job. How funny... It seemed so important and like a dream come true back them. Now, I would very much like to move forward. This is a nice job and I'm very comfortable, but that just makes it even more dangerous... Because I’m comfortable, I’m not actively trying to change anything. Meaning, I’m not in a hurry trying to find another job or study for entrance exams for university. Speaking of which, the entrance exam period starts next month, in March. It’s making me stressful, slightly, because I really would like to get in and study Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Maori,... Linguistics, cultures and so on. But I don’t want to write essays. As long as it’s this kind of chaotic writing, I enjoy it, but essays... I’m not very good at structuring text and my writing. Sigh... We’ll see. I’ll try to study more from now on. And get my life together. If you’re someone who’s still under 20 years old, stop worrying. I’m turning 25 this year and honestly, I still haven’t figured out life. I have very few dreams and wishes too. So being lost is maybe more of a way of life, than a situation. Someone smart said once “not all those who wander are lost”. I want to believe those words. I’m a wanderer, not lost. So we’ll see where life takes me next. 

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The last words about client studies module

I definitely grew both as a professional and as a person. I feel like I got to learn many things that will help me on my professional illustrator career. Some biggest things to mention here would be: setting boundaries and expectations, asking questions and expressing concerns. I think the two biggest things that I struggled with were time management and saying, that I can't do something. These things I will try to practice for the remaining of my time at my university, and I hope to see progress on these aspects.

I haven't mentioned this before, but I was supposed to complete three work placements over the summer, but as you've noticed, I have only written about two. I wanted to save this experience last, because I think it has an important lesson to be learnt from it:

I have a friend in South Korea, who has an industrial design company. He's very passionate about fine arts and illustration, but has seldom a chance to work with other artists. We had been talking about collaborating ever since we met, but have never gotten around to do it and now that I needed to find work placement places, I immediately thought of him and sent him a message. He was working on a new lighting line, and was elated when I offered to make illustrations and package designs for him, free of charge. He sent me images of the products and some of his inspirations and what he would hope the illustrations to look like, and I was already sketching ideas. However, things were too good to be true indeed, and he ran into some patent troubles with bigger companies. He sent me a long email where he apologised, and asked if this affects my grades. I was able to tell him no, luckily I had done other placements over the past months, and I said I completely understand. These things do happen. I also told him to contact me, if there's any progress on the project or if there's other projects he needs illustrations for. We're still in touch and working together on other projects. So, even if something doesn't work out as you hope, don't throw away the contacts and be hopeful for the future, because there might be other opportunities coming your way!

Another thing I wanted to talk about before finalising writing about this module is the Dippy the dinosaur exhibition. The exhibition opened in Cardiff in early November, and of course I went to see it as soon as I got the chance.  As I stepped inside of the smaller room for the fast fashion exhibition, I instantly saw big, A3 size prints of my dinosaur portraits! This made me incredibly happy, as I imagined them as A5 and definitely not straight at the entrance.

They also had my tote bag with my logo design on the wall. For the slogans, they had used M’s illustrations instead of mine, and they had taken both of our silhouettes.

The posters me and M had done in collaboration were much smaller than originally planned. I don’t know, whether there had been formatting issues or maybe issues with printing, but it was nice seeing both of the posters up. I also spotted some of my donated clothes on the sculptures:

One thing that I did notice, was that there were no credits put on any of the illustrations... This had been something that we had been promised would happen, so seeing them not put our names anywhere to be found really angered me; I would have imagined an institution this big and trusted would remember to credit their artists! However, after the initial feelings I understood, that they too were only people I worked with, and people forget and make errors. They might have simply forgotten about it, but it would have been nice to see our names up there by our work. Especially, since there were children and groups visiting the exhibition, so it would have been a very good opportunity to be found.  I want to end this post with a positive note though: right when I was walking out from the exhibition room, there was a small corner, where people could give feedback and leave drawings. I was glancing over at them, and then I saw this...

A small fan art of one of my dinosaur portraits! I remember I started laughing out loud, it made me so happy. This was enough of a payback and these moments are the most rewarding to me as an illustrator. I wish I could have given the child a big hug; this made my day. I left the museum skipping happily towards my next adventures!

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PORTAL - the art expo

Stress... Anxiety... Rush... These were the things I was feeling while trying to draw my piece for the exhibition. My brain felt like a empty plastic bag filled with slime, and it was impossible trying to catch a thread from one thought or another. Portal... What comes to my mind? A room of a teenager? A song that takes you away from where you are? Yes. Something like this. I also tried a little bit more direct approach and sketched a mushroom gatherer, who finds an ancient portal. I really liked the sketch, but the idea seemed... shallow. It needed more work, and I struggled to settle on an idea. I was also getting feedback from my teachers, that my ideas are superficial and there’s no feeling in them. I had to agree, which only annoyed me more. But I had learnt to take in constructive feedback over the summer, so now I was able to let it fuel me.

Now that we had found a venue, the curation team needed to do some shopping... There were many things that needed to be decided, one vital one being how we would hang the work.

On one Tuesday, I was the only person present from my team. I could hear my ears ringing as I realised that I would be the one speaking for the whole team...! I felt pressure building in my head... I can do this, I told myself. Just breath. Confidence. Thank god we have the most amazing person as a lecturer on this module, and she was very supportive. I told everyone, that the size would have to be changed from A4 to A3, as the exhibition space was so large. I took notes on things that still needed to be done, and sent updates to our curation chat. C promised to start looking for frames and other ways to hang the work, and R and H said they’d search for decorations for the space. We had gotten the permission to use tables and sofas from the Jacob’s market, so we didn’t need to worry about those. People from our class were also able to bring in cameras and speakers, so those could be considered done too. I talked about budget from our university, and my lecturer promised to look into it, and help with covering the printing costs. This was amazing news, and I felt elated. She also mentioned, that one person from each group should attend a vinyl cutting workshop held by our university, and naturally since I was the only curation team member there, I put my name down. We would be able to have a smaller exhibition, kind of as a tribute I guess, in the space outside of the classrooms. This would give attention to our actual exhibition happening elsewhere, and it would also bring the artists visibility within our university. Me and a few other people from my class took some measurements of the space, and designed what could go where, and what would need to be moved.

The following week was busy. The location team was buying food and drinks for the opening night, and the curation team was finding decorations and mounting equipment. Then came troubles... I tried contacting the man from the Jacob’s market, but he didn’t reply to any of my emails. I had sent a few, and it had been a few days so I was getting desperate, but thanks to my amazing teammates, we were able to reach then by phone and we settled everything. Then... We had the first big fight. This was regarding the food and drink side of the exhibition, as this girl I have told about before was unhappy with the food and drink arrangements the people who were assigned to it had done. In my opinion, they had done alright, but there had definitely been conversations, that I hadn’t heard of. I didn’t really had anything to say to this except that the bossy girl has to learn to let other people to take responsibility, and she has to learn to let other people decide. I found it unfair she took their job and they were left with nothing to do. Well, on the drawing side, I had made some progress. I wasn’t happy I had done this again: I have a tendency to not listen to others and I’m too stubborn when it comes to certain things. As I wrote in the last post, I was struggling to find a good idea. Well, now I had found it, and it was completely different than what I was going for before, but because I was running out of time I just went with it without even telling about the idea to my lecturers. I know this is a very stupid way to work, but I felt too much stress from being so behind with the drawing process, that it felt like the fastest way forward. I had also learnt to trust myself slightly more during the summer, so I convinced myself, that this was the right way to go.

She is a girl, and when she puts on  the headphones, the music takes her to another world. She’s here, but isn’t. This is my portal.

Beside this, I had prepared some prints to be sold at the exhibition opening night. This was a way to make some extra cash, and I love stalls; meeting people, seeing them buy my art, seeing how it connects us in some unexplained way when it makes them feel something... I didn’t want to turn down the opportunity. 

It was also time to send the exhibition pieces to print in a few days, and a huge load was lifted from my shoulders, when my amazing lecturers told us that they would take care of that for us. I was so happy, as I still had quite a bit to do with the exhibition piece itself. 

The next few days passed in a blur: sending my finished piece for printing, coming up with a name for it, designing placards to go by the artwork for the exhibition, cleaning the exhibition space,... There was so much. I had gotten ill a few days before this all, so I honestly pushed through these events with the power of paracetamol. I don’t have many feelings about it all, because I worked like a robot, from task to another, as quickly as I could with as little rest as possible. There was also problems with promoting, or actually, the lack of it. There wasn’t much publicity and the social media handles were quiet. It was only a few days before the opening night, so we needed more action. Everyone in the class posted the event on Facebook; this way we were hoping to gain more publicity to it. The problem with me is that all of my family and friends live in other countries, so me sharing the event wasn’t much help... But at work, I tried to talk about it with as many people as possible; it was a free event in the end, and if they didn’t have anything to do, they could come see it! It was now two nights to the opening night, and the curation team started prepping the space. This included cleaning the venue, arranging sofas, chairs and tables, decorating the space and testing the mounting technique. I had been shown magnets on ebay by one of my lecturers, and he suggested we could use the magnets and small nails to hang the work. It sounded like a good idea at the time, but when the magnets arrives, they were way too weak to hang the A3 artwork. So, a few of us quickly ran to the nearest artstore and brought plenty of masking tape, which is very strong, but leaves no marks on the walls after peeling it off. This, we tested too. Just in case, because the owner had told us not to damage the walls.

In just two days, everything was ready for the exhibition to open the doors. My fever was running high, and I felt weak and sick, but the pride from having out together something this amazing overrode the nasty feelings. The prints had arrived the previous day, and together with the whole curation team we had hanged them on the walls; colour coded. It was all ready for people to see. It was ours for the weekend; that’s what the old man had told me when I had paid for renting the venue for three days. His friendly smile still made me feel, like this was our space. For three days.

And so came the opening night... And when you looked through my portal with Artvive app, the silence would turn into music and transport you into another universe...

It was over. So much work had gone into just three days of exhibiting art, but it had all been worth it. The experience taught me, how important it is to establish clear roles and a schedule for everyone, and most important thing of all is to be patient, talk to one another and learn to listen. This also showed me, that I still need lots of practise on my time management skills... Working for eight hours straight to finish animating my piece made me shed tears, and the fever didn’t help anything. I think I might have even gotten ill from all the stress I was feeling trying to get everything done and hold it all together. I also had gotten better in communicating what need to be done, if one compares me to the person I was in the summer. The work placements had made me grow thicker skin, and I could better put a border between me as a person and myself, and me as an illustrator and as a worker. All in all, I loved being a part of the Portal exhibition class, and I felt so proud of us all as a class, but also the curation team; we had all done amazing job, and even though I was left on my own a few times, I could still count on my team to have my back. They had done most of the shopping, and I had gathered information and made lists of the things that needed to be taken care of, so it all worked out together. I couldn’t have asked for better team members.

This is the end. That was Portal. Thank you for taking your time to read, and if you will, message me if there’s something you were left puzzled about, or jus tto leave any comments on my writing. Lots of love, Likki

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PORTAL - the art expo

The chat of our class was on fire. There was lots and lots of conversation, and especially on the days I was working it was hard trying to catch up, which made me feel guilty and stressed. I always prefer to stay on top of things and know what’s going on, but now I had to try to let some things go on their own weight forward. I also knew everyone in my class and who bothered to talk and express their opinions on the chat is trustworthy, and I could count on them to make the best exhibition, so missing on a few hours wasn’t a catastrophe. It was the weekend before the Monday and the Tuesday when all the voting would be done, but we managed to agree on the chat, that as a fundraiser for the exhibition we would put together a drink and draw event. We would need lots of money for printing and for the venue, so gathering funds was a necessity. People on the promotion team were also contacting different companies and stores to be possible sponsors for our exhibition, and to our delight, a few said yes. People from our class offered to donate some artwork for the drink and draw prices too, so everything was going very well. The design team had prepared some logo sketches and designs, and sent them to the group chat. They were looking to narrow down a desired style that most of us would prefer so they would be able to make more designs for the upcoming Tuesday. I thought it would be a good idea to have a vote on the chat, so they would be more confident and have a better understanding of the consensus of the group’s opinion for a logo, but again, the one girl from the class was telling everyone that voting on the chat is a stupid idea. This angered me to no end. Firstly, because even though not everyone was active on the chat, there were people too who didn’t turn up for classes. Secondly, because the quicker we got the ball rolling and the design team would get even a hint of which direction to go with the logo, they would be able to finish this part of the job faster. Her negative attitude towards everything got on my nerves, but I tried to swallow it down and let the majority decide the best course of action. The most important thing was to pace ourselves right after all.

Next, the promotion team started to post artist bios on the social media handles of our exhibition. I had a profile image I had used on my social media for a long time, but decided to redo it for this. And that was a mistake, because the new image turned out terrible... I wasn’t happy at all with it, but didn’t have time to change it anymore.

On Monday the 30th of September, we sat down with the curation team to talk through our timetable and to write down the brief that would be handed out on the following day.

I had made out a list of the things I wanted us to discuss as a group, and what I felt like we needed to be answered tomorrow. I think our team worked well together: everyone listened to one another and we were able to find compromises easily. We asked each other’s opinions and suggested changes or different approaches, and before I even knew it, we had written a brief:

On the Tuesday, we had the logo designs as well as a poster ideas for the drink and draw. We voted on these, and in my opinion, the once chosen were extremely successful (purple and teal). 

We also had updates on the venue! It was now decided, that we would have our exhibition in the Jacob’s antique market. The curation team would pay a visit there to see and measure the space, and we also handed out the brief we had printed off for everyone. It was all going smoothly and without any fights or major disagreements, which I was very happy to take notice of. I hate conflict and always prefer to talk things out, so the arranging something this massive with this many different personalities scared me at first, but I was so proud of all of us; everyone had put so much effort into everything going well, and we had made huge progress in only one week!

After the days lecture, we gathered with the curation team to pay a visit to the venue. We met the owner’s son, who talked through everything with us; the do’s and don’ts and all the other necessities. We swapped emails so we could stay in contact and ask any questions, and they seemed very helpful and friendly, although a bit nonchalant towards our exhibition, but that didn’t bother me; I actually preferred this approach better than someone, who would be stalking on my every move. I volunteered to go pay the deposit money the following day, and arranged everything with the management team.

So far, things had gone smoothly and although I felt a huge responsibility on managing everything and stress from it all, I felt content. I had started also sketching my own exhibition piece, but found myself struggling with the theme, which was hilarious in a twisted way; I was one of the people deciding it in the end...

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