The Thing With Back-up BFA Ideas...

is that sometimes, they become your real idea.

So now I'm making art about Eleanor Rigbies like Martha and June here. This happened exactly six days before my midyear presentation. This being my realization that The Sentimental Archive involved too many logistics and following a thesis (and not my process) led me far from my original intent. So I went back to what inspired me. (Er, first I had to figure that out...) Monday night at 9pm, I realized what I've been talking about this whole time. The imagery I've been working with. The aesthetics that constantly move me. And then at noon on Tuesday, I turned in my presentation. And then Wednesday afternoon, I had to present like I've been doing this for a semester. It's a risk, changing my mind this late in the game. But it's definitely for the better.

Viola June Bertsch 12 yrs. old-

Viola with one of her little friends taken at our house. Viola is in second semester Junior High school and likes her new school. She has a little farther to go now and rides her bicycle most of the time. Nearly all the girls are riding bicycles around here.


Viola is almost as tall as her mother. It keeps me busy sewing to keep up with her.


She plays her piano nicely too. She played the piano at school for music period last winter already-


From the back of one of my favorite found photographs, which I will share once I scan it. I think I love the message more than the image. I want to make art with this.