2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 8,400 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 14 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

thank you x a million!

This is long overdue, but THANK YOU to everyone who helped me with my show, offered to help me with my show, gave any input on my work at any point, walked past the gallery and glanced over for 0.2 seconds, read one of my postcards, or did anything else that could remotely be connected to the production of my senior thesis.

I deinstalled last Friday and just finished reading through the sign-in book and let me tell you – it was like reading a high school yearbook filled with notes and hearts and friends and people I don’t quite remember, only 9834285 times better. So many overly-nice things and words of encouragement that made my debacles with drawing and painting the walls and ESPECIALLY framing totally worth it.

My photos of the show are atrocious, but hopefully a combination of Photoshop and finding pictures taken by the gallery staff can amend that.

Thank you again to everyone!

Med school’s sure going to have a hard time trying to top this.

 

crunch time.

My show opens tomorrow!

Just finished installing about 91% of it, but I don’t love the spacing so I will probably redo some or all of it tonight after work.

After a ridiculous and stressful fiasco involving buying frames, realizing they were cheap and worthless, being in denial and using them anyway, looking for new ones, not finding new ones, buying frameless clips, realizing the clips did not fit, and improvising with several yards of mailing tape, I CANNOT wait for everything to [hopefully] fall in place.

At least I’m serving chocolate at my opening reception. That’s one thing I know will be a success.

 

updated website!

Check out my updated website – (most) senior thesis pics are up!

http://wix.com/nanzhu/art

It actually still needs a ton of work (at least two more drawings for my senior thesis show, new artist statements, etc.) but it’s getting there. I figured I’d post this since I am currently on a temporary hiatus from art as I tackle two exams in the next five days. Art will commence next Wednesday, which is exactly one week before I need to install my show. I have a TON left to do and this puts me on a pretty tight deadline, but as much as I want to put together a great exhibition, I also want to not fail my other three classes.

Counting down until crunch time. Anxious but excited. But mostly anxious.