In case you missed the attempts at resurrection with accompanying explanation: somebody hacked the blog and replaced it with one of those wanky little graffiti pages bragging about how much the hacker roolz. I reinstalled several times, but every time I uploaded a backup (all from pre-hacking, I’m not that stoopit) I’d get locked out again. Tedious as all get out. FINALLY got it to work by editing the hell out of the SQL, and then when I went to upload all the image files I had (I THOUGHT!) downloaded ,discovered I only had some of them. I do not know why. I can only assume that the download was interrupted without me noticing. So, at the moment there are only a bunch of images from 2006, and you’ll have to bear with me while I find & upload the missing pics and then edit the links to them. It doesn’t bear thinking about, how long that’ll take. I really hate hackers.
This will take even longer than it otherwise might have because (ta da!) I’ve gone back to school. A long time ago and far far away I did about half of a diploma of fine arts. This year I started again – I was going to try and join yr 2 of a program that started last year, but in the end opted for starting over. Largely because it’s been 18 yrs since I was anywhere near a printing plate or an etching press, so revision I needz it! Anyway, I am loving it. LOVING. Awesome teacher, really nice group of people, and most of them are even “mature age” so I don’t feel like an old fart in a sea of teens. Most of them also seem to have done a cert IV or something last year too, and even the two youngsters are fresh from years of highschool arts, so there are no real newbies and everybody’s just leaping in. It’s pretty exciting :) And tiring; man I’m exhausted, especially after the two days on-campus. And drawing is totally kicking my arse – if you’ve never done life drawing on an easel you have no idea (and I’d forgotten!) how physical it is.
Onyroad. So, you can probably expect to see more non-textile art here for a while, at least until I con them into giving me the run of the place so I can do some printing on fabric etc ;) My imagination’s gone a little wild with possibilities …
