Here's a short update. I have a few interesting things going on...
1) Internship at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts - for the last two summers, I've interned at the Virginia Museum in Exhibition Planning. The first summer I assisted them with some ideas for their Ning Statewide Partners site, and I created an audio tour on Women Artists. Last summer, I began work on a second audio tour on African American artists that I just finished a couple of weeks ago. I will be expanding this tour for the Education Department over the next few months, and plan to continue to do various projects for the museum.
2) I'm involved in the new Department of Olfactory Art at the MAD in New York. It's all very classified right now, but I'm so excited to be working with Chandler Burr and can't wait to embark on some new projects in the world of olfaction!
3) I've written what I called a chapter of my dissertation, about 35 pages where I contrasted the synaesthetic intentions of Baudelelaire's Correspondences and Rimbaud's Voyelles. I think I made a couple of breakthroughs, but my most significant discovery is that I really don't want to spend my dissertation work trying to translate French, and I want to move to the British writers instead. I'm also toying with straying from synaesthesia altogether and moving to the senses in general or smell specifically in the 19th century.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Two Years?
I suppose I'm not a very competent blogger. I think it takes a careful blend of having something to say and self-confidence that I haven't developed fully yet. I wrestle with feeling like all aspects of social networking are just self-important cries for attention. I know that they aren't, completely, because there are blogs that I love to read, and people who say things in blogs that inspire, comfort, intrigue, and teach. I'm just not certain yet that I am able to say those things. I do think, though, that there is a small group of interesting people out there who share my passion for all things olfactory, and thus, I don't want to let go entirely the idea of writing and talking about it periodically. I will try to revisit this blogging thing upon occasion to see what happens.
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