It's the last three weeks of finals month, and spirit is running thin at my apartment. After I apologize for posting a day late (no, two days late, I am so sorry), I'll leave ya'll with a bunch of visuals. 

As you may know, I'm pursuing a writing minor to compliment my photography BA; writing is always something I have loved and seemed to have an aptitude for, so it only seemed logical. That, and it seemed like something that could possibly give me more career opportunities. Anyway, I am working on my writing minor, but I am also deeply involved in MIAD's writing club, ThirdWord. For this semester, our club thought up an imaginary town to develop through writing and visual artwork: Anondale, IL, population 52,000, possible alien invasions in the 50's, carries all the quirks of a 'small town' (I use the term loosely. Milwaukee seems like a small town to Chicago, but few people I've run into can fathom that a town of 1500 people, like Tarkio, can exist). 

After brainstorming up the basics, we offered our creation up to the world and have been accepting submissions in order to create a publication. We picked our winners, so to speak, and are in-process of composing a zine-ish book to go along with a reading party. One, and possibly a second, of my stories was accepted, and I was asked to include some filler artwork to break up all of the texts. The photos above are filler, and some were also used to make posters earlier in the semester. 

Hopefully, I'll eventually figure out how to upload samples of my writing or fu

Where does aesthetically wonderful and conceptually rich meet? Is there a place?  How does one go about making work that is so visually engaging that the audience feels compelled to spend a considerable amount of time in front of it, but still reaches really important issues or creates good discussion? 

I just paid my last installation for my Ireland Study Abroad trip.


I'm gonna photograph the bejezus out of Ireland.