midterm madness!!!

i am feverishly working on editing my video, and have realized two things: that i have way too much footage, and that it isnt lit very well. so i have reshot video, and simplified the whole thing a great deal. my goal is to have it down to approximately 3 mins as opposed to the previous 30... my other main concern is that it might be too literal or obvious, which is a recurring issue in alot of my work. so i hope to remedy the problem by chopping clips up more, rearranging them in not such a linear or narrative fashion, and by omitting some parts all together. in my other work, im focusing on juxtaposing images to suggest ideas other than what you can literally see, and so i hope to accomplish the same in this video. in the meantime, im stressing out about my piece for luminaria. i hope i can get that successfully done by friday! its a painting layered on two sheets of plexiglas that are mounted together. its fairly large, and i dont have much more time, so i have to keep it simple as well.... printmaking crit last week was good, and i have many new ideas for prints :) painting/drawing crits have started, luckily mine is after spring break so i can get my head together and work on my drawings! my stalker situation has ceased to exist, and so i have much more freedom to think and focus now, the only thing in my way now is that some of my work is addressing how much i drink, and i drink when im making it.... so as a result im not at my studio too much, and i sometimes end up trashed and not getting things done as fast as i had planned. i definitely need to cut that out asap if im going to make it through grad school. (!!!) even though my mind is in a MUCH better place and im taking way better care of myself, (save the bottles and bottles of wine....) i find my work is very much revolving around that time in my life. maybe thats why im still drinking, (even though it is substantially less....) i feel like this work will help me deal with it all so i can let it go. and as a bonus, maybe it will speak to other people too. SO much to do!!! cheers!! (just kidding!! :)