My .com recently vanished. I'm not so sure I even understand what happened, but even so, I'm currently trying to get it back. Until then, I have added a small portfolio of my work to this blog, and I imagine I will use this as my .com in the future. I'm starting to see the importance of a blog, I will take advantage of just how much easier it is is to keep up to date as opposed to a website built from scratch. As much as I enjoy the CSS, I'm just not sure I have the discipline to form a regular routine.

I had my first one-to-one with my print tutor yesterday, which left me with a pretty positive outlook for the year. She seemed to pretty much grasp exactly what I was hoping to achieve, so I'm optimistic. I hope for a change from digital, artificial colours to a more natural palette. I want to experiment with transfer processes, film photography (a recent passion for light leaks is a huge inspiration) and photoetching. The buzz is a big one... as I do love this stage.

A Sunday afternoon spent at The Mythical Beast Sweet Shoppe, absorbing the art work/sea air. It is a reminder that I could have perhaps pushed myself harder this summer, and had my own work in the space, but even so, it is a good way to begin a more productive autumn. Maybe it's more of a reminder of what I know can be achieved, which can be a pretty inspiring thing.

September has appeared much quicker than I expected, well, I'm lying really, this summer has crawled! If I admit to that though, I'd have no excuse for why I've not updated my journal, and even worse, why I've not been making art.

I've had a full time office job for the summer to increase my bank balance and to experience the "real world". It's not only left me with very little time to actually make or see any art, it's also stifled my creative head and left me feeling pretty numb to my art in general. Wow, it seems even sadder in writing...

My saving grace of the summer has been my colorsplash, which has at least added a little bit of colour to an otherwise pretty drab summer. I'll share some of my oh-so-juicy favourite shots from the past few months.

My exhibition is up! I wish I could say that it is running smoothly, but I'd hardly walked in the door opening night and I was rushed to my space to fix my video, it turns out that one touch of the touch-sensitive screen could send the whole thing flying. The place was packed so for the rest of the evening it proved to be pretty problematic, to say the least. I couldn't get a good photograph of that room, but I have plenty more to see in the college:

I've had some postcards printed for my upcoming show - excellent! Unfortunately, my website is undergoing some baffling problems which means I can't update it - not so excellent...! The timing is perfect, as I've had this website for over a year now and it has worked perfectly when I haven't had 500 postcards advertising it. I thought of even forwarding the website to this blog, but it won't even allow me to do that. Luckily, I do still have a page, which is preferable over a blank page, I just wish it was an updated page.

For those curious:

JSLucas.com

A study of the flamboyant masculinity of peacocks for a video I'm working on. I'm a real sucker for blurred abstract imagery, the shape and tone and colour works very nicely in video form and the television scan line texture really makes for a trippy experience. When I'm able to, I'll share the uploaded video, images for now.

Along with my drypoint prints I'm pretty sure I'm going to exhibit the scratched plates that made them. A few weeks back I was keen to get them as clean as possible, hoping to get the original shine of the aluminium, like the image I posted earlier. I pretty much realised there was no chance of that happening, and gradually realised that actually, the dirtier the better. As a result they've completely taken on a different atmosphere, of some kind of blood-thirsty zombie stag that creeps me the hell out.

They look too good to clean.