The fourth through tenth of July
An instant cappuccino and silence, deafening silence
The academic redemption arc finally ended, yesterday.
and now, silence, only silence.
This summer so far I’ve been thinking about the things I will do once I get home. I’m already thinking a bit of my third college year. Only yesterday did I finish my second year. Yesterday. I need to chill…
Last summer I was fantasising about my soon to be real life in Milano, and now, in Milano, I keep yearning to go back home. And I thought I would end up moving and working abroad once my I got my studies over with… Hm, I expected that my exchange experience would only strengthen that dream. Nope. This is food for thought, I will come back to this in my final Newsletter, hopefully.
During my waiting time in between exams I talked with multiple people at the same time. Switching from english to romanian and from romanian to english, I spited myself for not being able to reconcile my differently flavoured friends. I guess I’m a different person from one friend to the other. I’m that much of a people pleaser.
When I arrived at my Animation exam, I sat next to someone that gave me a friendly vibe, but I couldn’t tell why her face was so familiar. Only as I was picking my things to leave did she come up to me to make conversation. Haha, oh my, and we talked for quite a while and exchanged contacts finally.
The visual highlights of the week
The ninth of July
“I got on time to leave earlier than expected”
Can I just say I absolutely adore when the passage of time is featured in art?
I’m such a sucker for that… I thought it was about time I applied this trick too!
That day I had the final presentation for this whole blog. Almost two months of work. I submitted my best works from this project along with my portfolio from the last three years of ‘artistic’ activity. The professor told me that he noticed some similarities in my art overall. For example the high contrast that has become the standard in my works on this blog. The more you know!
The sixth of July
“Pouring rain, she remembered her birthday. I used to lip-sing the birthday song when I was a kid. I sort of had a feeling it was bad luck.”
This small story time doesn’t have to do much with Milan but it’s an ongoing one for years and years. It’s family related.
In short, it was my grandmother’s birthday. I don’t recall being fond of her while I was growing up, nor did I grew to like her in my later years. But since the pandemic, her mental health has been rowing gently off the cliff. Ok, that’s an understatement as she’s with dementia and forgets almost every single thing she does or is informed about. I was tremendously happy when I moved out for university.
Going back to the work in discussion, I’m in love with the colours in this work. The pastels always get me, if not the high contrasts. I go from one extreme to the other.
The fifth of July
`”A rainy walk and tea spillage in therapy.”
At this point, I’ve made sort of a habit of going out for a walk in the morning. That’s when I usually take my pictures for my creative attempt at the end of the day.
About the tea spill in therapy, my, my, my, I talked about my hate and my bottled up emotions. It was indeed spicy, in terms of anger, ayo! I will take that as a step further in my self discovery.
The written message in the work is from a wall Graffiti I found during my walk. It said “do you know who you are? spoiler, no.” . It’s damn, on point on how I felt after my therapy session.
P.S. if you look closely at the lettering, specifically at “WHO”, there’s a small detail :))
Next week will barely be ‘Finally Visiting Milan’, here’s why.
I teased something would be afoot in my last Newsletter. Here’s the reveal: I’m going on a trip, to Bari! Close to it I mean, but I’ll end up visiting it as well! I’m going to visit some friends from my home University that went on an Erasmus+ exchange there.
I can officially say my summer has begun.
Now, as in terms of plans, I have a few ideas. However, these days I shall focus on getting some well deserved stress relief and relaxation. OH, yes and of course, on packing my luggage and preparing for ‘goodbye’s. I have one planned today actually. Wish me luck.
the goodbye was barely one, we strangely hugged at the end.