Nothing much going, just some highlights from the past few days:
Today was the first day in the past five that it hasn't rained and been unseasonable chilly. The temperature was holding about 2-7 degrees, about 36-43 F, and it was still a touch too warm for it to be snowing. Nothing is worse than a cold, windy rain. The forecast is looking up for the weekend, rain for the most part, but back up to about 10 C, 55 F. I took advantage of this nice weather to do a site visit of the location I am planning an installation, I hope to have that one done by mid November at the very latest.
Last evening all of the international students from the Academy of Fine Arts, nine in total, went to see a blues / rock band at our haunt of choice, Pugerjai. We heard about the group from one of the sculpture students, a friend of her's is in the band. They were very good. At one point I had my back away from the stage, when I turned, I was shocked to find the band was off stage taking a break for the past 10 minutes. All the while, I was thinking they were still playing, but it was really a CD of theirs!
I finally got to the Zagreb Film Festival yesterday, I went with a few of my classmates at lunch time. We saw two short documentaries. One, "The Italian Doctor", followed a physiologist around as he worked in Afghanistan. He worked with people who needed prosthetics and has been there for over 10 years. The second, "Dead Man Walking" was from a Croatian filmmaker. He went to a small Bosnian town that was heavily damaged from the war. This man, Himzo, disappeared during the war and was never seen until 12 years later, he just showed up. Himzo doesn't speak of the time that he was away, and there is much speculation about whether he was captured by Serbs, or if he just fled and never tried to contact his family. So, initially when he arrived back home the whole town partied for days on end, as the months wore on and Himzo wouldn't give any answers, he was eventually shunned from his family and town. I'm going to see a feature length film tonight at 10.30, "The Living and the Dead," then another one tomorrow evening, "Jar City."
One night after working in the studio, Kyle (another IUP student) and I were walking back to the dorm, we passed some hedges and heard a rustling. We turned back to find a hedgehog peeking out from the hedges at us! Kyle was going to pick him up, but the little thing had its quils up. So instead, Kyle tries to give it a piece of granola, but of course it wasn't going to take it, so we left it. The past few evenings I've made a point to look for our prickly friend, but no such luck. we do have some cats hanging around the dorm. We always save a little food from the cafe to give to them, as soon as we can get close enough to one, we're going to have a dorm cat.
I was informed this week that I and the other IUP students will have a group show the last week that were are here. Professor Drinkovic continued to tell me we need to get the catalogue completed by mid November in order to get it printed in time for the opening. I'm thinking, "what!? catalogue?" This also means that if we choose to put in images (of course we are going to) that we should have a piece done soon so it can be photographed and in the catalogue. In light of this, I spent a good two hours going over all the pieces I am planning, made an overall "to do" list, a "to do" list for each of the pieces, and time tables in the same manner. Obsessive? Absolutely. Waste of time? Hopefully not.
Alright, I gotta make some coffee now, if I expect to make it through the film.
--AM
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