i know i have been slacking off with my normal flow of posting.

i apologize.

i suppose i apologize to myself because i don't think anyone else would or should care.

so i am completely enthralled with my classes.

my studio professor definitely inspires me to think in a different manner, and i have been happier. my mind has been so busy that i have had little time to think about the awful things i always seem to drift toward.

anyways, i wanted to post about some of the things i have been learning.

during one of our pin-ups/discussions, sal tried to convince us that vertical and horizontal lines were the epitome of structure and that everything in the physical world was constructed of these two types of lines and those alone. he put it so beautifully; i was convinced. he explained that everything, though it may appear to be formless or organically shaped is indeed composed of horizontal/vertical lines. the trees, he stated, were simply horizontal lines infused with nature. water, although it may appear to conform to any shape, always forms a horizontal surface. it can be filling a lake or a cup, but the surface will always form a distinct, even horizontal line. and gravity-- gravity always draws objects to the center of the earth, always down in a perfectly vertical line.

i had never realized these things.

well, i had, but i had never realized the truth in them.

i can't believe i have been alive this long and not opened my eyes.

people have always said that college is the time when you learn the true ways of the world, when you become who you truly want to be. i never really bought into that, but now i am beginning to see how blind i was. i can't imagine going back.