Turn the Page It's a reminder I always find useful, beyond New Year's Eve. With art, work, studying, decisions day in and day out - I often find myself overworking something without thinking about how starting anew or starting fresh could save me a lot of time and effort. I tend to be afraid of deadweight loss - letting go of those old...
I came home this semester with a lot of extra tissue paper I never got around to using, so naturally, I looked up some DIY's to make them useful. I found two interesting wall art DIY's and worked off of them. (Linked in the headings below if you're bored at home and have some art supplies lying around...) Here are some shots I...
11-15-15 Mashup from Davis Museum on Vimeo. Music starts at 1:23 This semester I entered a contest hosted by the Davis Museum at Wellesley College called "Mash-Up", where students are asked to create a derivative artwork of any type (performance, visual, written), based on an object from the museum's collection. The chosen work this semester was one of Monet's Waterloo Bridge paintings (below)....
So I intended to vary the medium in my posts day by day and was planning on posting something music related today, but I spent the day in the city with my sister and ended up doing a few sketches in my down time...so here's some more art. Perhaps music will come tomorrow. Speed Sketching I've always wanted to work on sketching fast...
"Floodgates" Grace is one interview away from a pre-med training program, but something is stopping her. In this short film, watch as her nature and the supernatural influence her decisions. Here it goes... my first ever film! This was my final project in my introduction to film production class this past semester, and it was quite an experience figuring out what goes into...
Some Background This is my latest piece, made this past summer, based on a photograph I took in Sedona, Arizona last winter break at one of the stops on the Red Rock Scenic Byway (right). The painting represents an idealistic view, highlighting a simplistic path to a detailed, grand summit. I thought about indicating scale somehow in the painting to properly capture how...
A Blank Canvas Hello... from the other side! (of the semester.) The last time you heard from me, I was traveling in the heat of Jaipur. Now, a season has flown by and I'm in the cold (barely - thanks, El Niño!) northeast winter. As the semester was ending, with job and internship plans falling through, I found myself looking at the blank...
The wedding toast scene from English Vinglish (2012), featuring Shashi (played by Sridevi - who's about 49 at the time!) On the second day in Jaipur, Kumar-ji (our AIIS “Bhagvan” aka “god” - all knowing, all powerful secretary and administrator of everything) brought my roommate and me to check out and decide on a host home. In the taxi, when my roommate started...
Couldn't buy a piano, so I bought the only Uke I could find in Jaipur! Hindi covers coming up :) I bet you’ve forgotten that this blog exists! I’m not too surprised that I haven’t posted anything until 6 weeks into the program, but I’ve also often felt disappointed at myself for it. Every weekend I would realize another week has passed without...
5:30 AM from our hotel room window Am I here yet? I'm finally in India, but still not in India. What felt like earlier today (actually over 24 hours ago), back at the JFK airport, I had entered an ambiguous, isolated, neutral space of "in transit" which I still feel like I'm stuck in. From airports, to airplanes, to cars, to hotels, I...
"Jaipur City Palace" (2014) - a piece I made after my first visit to Jaipur India - Take 3! This summer I will be expanding upon my Hindi studies at the American Institute of Indian Studies (AIIS) in Jaipur, Rajasthan. A huge thanks goes to the Wellesley Mayling Soong Committee and AIIS for making this trip financially possible! I am so, so grateful. This...
"So wow" @ LACMA, January 2015 (June 2015) Welcome to my blog! My name is Grace, and I'm a sophomore at Wellesley College currently interested in Cinema Studies and Anthropology. This blog is still in its experimental stages (as are many aspects of my life), and I invite you to see what becomes of it. Like Me on Facebook Listen to my noises...
