Back to Rio

It has been awhile since I have posted so I thought I better start again since I finally have a little bit of free time for the next week. Since I've last wrote on this blog things have been pretty busy and good. I worked on an artist site for my mentor and friend Ledelle Moe and I recently just had a show in Columbus, Ohio at ROY G BIV Gallery and will be giving an artist talk THIS Saturday followed by the de-installation process, which is always fun. I am in fact heading to Brazil very soon. In a few weeks in fact and wanted to be sure that I started writing again so I would continue on my trip as well.

So awhile back, my good friend Rachel introduced me to a search engine called StumbleUpon and in the last few days I decided for fun to search images and websites related to Rio. I found a few good sites with some photographs I love. Here are a small bit of the many I found. Needless to say, lots of images to come!

The first set of images I found are all older photographs of Rio from the 60s and 70s. I picked these images because each one of them have somethings to do with my last trip there. They spark a memories from different occasions and encounters I had. What is it about black and white photography that I am always intrigued by? I loved to see the progression and change that happens over years of time as well as the minute changes sometimes overlook.

Time Flies..

I mentioned in my last post that I was going to be leaving Baltimore, and heading back to Columbus. It turns out I haven't made it home yet. I am still in Baltimore and working on getting started on a few temp projects that will keep me here for at least another month. It feels nice to finally be busy and back to my normal routine but also frustrating because I lost a lot of my free time for things such as this blog so I am going to try really really hard to start updating again. It just might not be as frequently for awhile.

I started working downtown at the Maryland Science Center for this cell exhibit. It is going to last for three weeks. It is nice to be actually working on a job that is related to my field. Today we used saws and angle grinders and shaped styrofoam all day. Kind of fun but really messy. It sticks to your clothes really bad. I am excited though to learn some new materials and techniques. It will be good for me. I also am freelance for my professor and friend Ledelle Moe and maybe working another job on the side. Busy busy busy! I hope I am not over doing it...I need to figure out how to balance my time between everything so I can enjoy it and not stress so much.

Last week, in the middle of all my job searching... I started looking into courses at JHU to learn Portuguese. I think it would be a lot of fun and really good for me. I want to learn Portuguese well and feel comfortable with it. I also started looking into the Fulbright and know the ones from Brazil want you to be more fluent in the language. It is really important to me so I know I will put the time into it. I also found someone on Craiglist, who lives in Baltimore and is willing to tutor me for a pretty reasonable price so I think we will start meeting soon.

Things are really looking up!! I just now need to figure out where I might be living for the next several months. Currently I am camping out at my friend's space. She lives in an old warehouse in the city called the Copycat. Kind of a neat space. I like it. A little dirty though but really large so it allows people to have a studio inside their apartment. Pretty sweet. Here is a few pics of the place.