It's come to the crunch

Talk about leaving it to the last minute! Friday was the deadline for making our choice of subjects for next term, and handing in the forms. We've been told we'll get our first choice, but might not get our second choice. Everyone does the core subjects ("contextual studies" aka art history) either on a Tuesday or Friday, 10-5. Then it's painting on Monday, ceramics, graphics, or textiles on Wednesday, sculpture or printmaking on Thursday, digital/video on Friday. So you can't always take the combination you reallyreally want.

I agonised over a ceramics-printmaking combination (lots of technical stuff, new processes, good facilities) or a sculpture-graphics combination (can't give logical reasons for wanting to do those) and finally went with sculpture as first choice, then ceramics, with painting as a surprise 3rd choice - but so many people are choosing painting, it's likely to be full up. How they'll juggle the class sizes etc is a mystery.

Part of the agony of the choice was that any of the subjects would have been fine - the course is more about the process of learning to work/think like an artist than it is about the actual product. In my opinion, anyway. Perhaps the people who are very focused on getting into art school, or have a passion for painting, have a different view.

This is now the last week of classes. Gosh, there'll be two months to do ... what? ... till classes start again in mid-September.