tiny art show (pt i)

What follows is an excerpt from my Honors Capstone project, which I'm going to give in parts here. It's an art show on campus; but I'm also required to do a write up. I think it's supposed to be more formal than this, but part of the whole point of doing art is that I'm done with trying to be technical or formal in my collegiate education. Also, it came about in a story. So, I'm going to tell the story.

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Art is a way for me to express what I have a hard time expressing otherwise. I love to write; but it is difficult to find appropriate ways to share raw emotion and truth in words. Art is at once a veil and a conduit for what I want to tell the world.

Given the requirement of an Honors Capstone project, most engineers add to their senior design project. At present, I have little interest in engineering, and less interest in adding to an already full project, although I now know it wouldn't have been difficult. It was an interesting technical project and we didn't fully explore the technicalities.

What excites and intrigues me is making things. Engineering can be art, to be sure, and art can be engineering. They can both be technical, functional, require skill, calculation and precision. A good part of my art tends towards the visceral, an element only seen in glimpses and shadows of finished engineering projects.

The short story is that culture and my wise family told me I should finish my degree, but I wanted to do it my own way because I am tired of engineering classes, so here I am. A tiny art show. The slightly longer version follows.

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9 Semesters, an Honors Capstone art show, will be in the Union Grove Gallery at the University of Alabama in Huntsville from December 2-7, 2018. Watch this space for details about hours and an opening reception.