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trainwreckinwords

Member Since: May 4, 2007
  • Location

    PA
  • Biography

    I'm a twenty year old art student, concentrating (currently) in Photography. I'm fairly certain that there isn't a thing on Earth that isn't beautiful in it's own way.
  • Artist's Statement

    I've been observant. I've taken mental notes.
    And I have concluded that in order to be a truly GOOD artist, I mean a GOOD talented, acclaimed, revered, envied, prolific artist-- you MUST have at least one or more of the following:

        * unnaturally colored hair
        * butt-ugly haircut
        * more than two piercings (ears do not apply) preferably one that goes right through the middle of your nose, though any facial piercings will do.
        * a tattoo.... or two..... or five.
        * a black and white horizontally striped shirt
        * male-- wear clothes tight. The tighter your clothes are the more "artist" you are.
        * female-- wear pleated denim skirts (they should be frayed or torn)... with violently colored tights-- and striped socks on top of those. It's so aesthetically awesome to be a day-glo nightmare.
        * pair of Converses. [They MUST be old and falling apart-- and you should probably have some sort of artistic media caked on them (clay, plaster, paint, etc.)]
        * any pair of very flat soled shoes.
        * angsty buttons and patches all over bags-- or at least ones with obsolete demands, like "STOP CONTINENTAL DRIFT!"
        * if nothing else, carry a drawing pencil behind ear or in  hair and when someone asks for a pencil look at them with a "back the eff off" stare.

    CLEARLY-- I am commenting on the extreme distaste I have for the stereotype that we "unique sorts" filter ourselves into. A girl in I met in the library learned that I was an art student and said to me, "You don't look like one."

    Well crap, I guess I need to work on that.

    Ps. I'm only guilty of the converses and the drawing pencil.

  • Favorite Artists

    Mondrian, Kandinsky, Warhol, Munch