Here is what I have so far for my card.  I am pretty happy with it.  Unfortunately all of the photos I took from my installation on Pearl St. are out of focus, so I set this up in my basement tonight and got some pretty sweet shots.  I used some techniques I learned about Photoshop from Photography class today to kind of blur parts of the photo and super sharpen the pieces I made.  I am pretty excited about it.  I really like the old wall and radiator in the piece.  I had a lot more little figurines in the curio cabinet, but the reflections in the mirror got too confusing, so I went with less.

I put two pieces in the cone 10 this past week.  Here they are glazed.  The owl doesn't look very good.  The glaze has bubbles in it.  I don't think it got hot enough.  I'm thinking I will try scraping off the crappy glaze and refiring it.  I also bisqued  many more little animals and made a mold for a much larger base.  I have kilns reserved this week so I can hopefully get a big animal tree done before my BFA crit next week. 

I have also been working on building my mantle for my BFA show.  I am very happy with the construction of it.  It looks great.  But, I have been working on staining it yesterday and today, which doesn't look how I had hoped.  The wood filler I used to cover my screws and cracks is not staining the same color as the wood, which looks really bad.  It has much lighter splotches all over it.  I stained it again tonight, and it seems to be looking better, though.  I need to see it in the daylight and put the polyurethane finish on.  I think I might need to rough it up a bit after it is finished so it will have an older feel to it. 

I know these pictures are horrible.  These are dark and sideways.

For my BFA crit next week I am going to show a powerpoint with images from my installation at Pearl St, the photo I took for my card, and a shot from my BA show.  In the Spacelab I am going to set up the mantle with stuff sitting on it, a shadow box with figurines in it, and my 2 newest prints displayed with the shelf and ceramic object.  I am also going to have the gold animal tree and the larger one I will complete this week.
Then after that I will keep working on little figurines and stacks, and I need to get together my wallpaper and figure out that situation for the show.  That is the biggest thing I need to work out still.

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I recently spent a lot of time on my BA show.  I made some nice prints.  I am very happy with the way the show turned out.  The opening was Tuesday.

Thursday and Friday I poured some of the new molds I recently purchased.  I need to get a lot of those rolling so I can make some bigger animal trees.  I am thinking if I start making the bases in two pieces then attaching them together post-fire the warping and leaning will be minimized.  I am just worried that they might now attach perfectly.  I made another base to try it out.  I might talk to Brian about that tomorrow.  I still need to go get a big cake stand to make a mold of.  I might do that tomorrow.
A lot of what I am planning on making this semester involved building things for my installation out of wood.  I am planning on hitting up Lowe's this Friday and getting the wood to build the mantle.  I need to make a calendar and plan out some deadlines in preparation for my BFA show.

I have also been working on my Thesis, which is going pretty well.  It is nice to sit and really think critically about my work.  I have also been spending some time working on my Photography project, which has been causing me some serious anxiety.  I feel like I am having a serious creative block, which is really negatively affecting my production of art.  I have been feeling I am in a bit of a rut for the past week or so.

Chris and I did our glaze tests today.