My memory is odd. I can remember complex theological frameworks, the wonders of the quantum world, plot points from various books but fuzz on faces and many of my life experiences. I don’t remember my first day of kindergarten\u2026.just remember tears. I don’t remember my first day of any school year really\u2014they just form a texture of fear, apprehension and extreme sorrow since it always pounded a nail in summer\u2019s coffin. What I do remember is the first day of college where I thought I made a huge mistake: I became an artist.<\/p>\n
I remember listening to the professor\u2019s speech (which bored me) about the beauty of abstract art (which I vehemently disagreed with) before being mandated to Begin (which boggled me).<\/p>\n
With ink-loaded paint brush I tentatively attacked my paper; splatters, sprinkles and ink-squirts abounded. When I was done me and these two guys next to me stepped back from our smeared papers and looked at each other. The sorrow in their eyes was no doubt a reflection of what was in my own. I had thrown away computer programming to smear ink. Fine art indeed.<\/p>\n
One of those two eventually switched to a communications major, was laughed to scorn by me and the rest of our art group, subsequently got hired by Nickelodeon and has been inking their work<\/a> over there: he showed us. The other<\/a> stuck to fine art, eventually took his masters and now is featured at gallery shows while being a professor at my Alma Mata.<\/p>\n Me, I held out hope to get into the comic book industry for the next year\u2014realizing that there were people way better than me and knowing that I was pretty much a rip-off artist: I had no personal style. I eventually switched to a Graphic Design major (and laughed to scorn by the rest of our art group), eventually got hired by a small design firm and have been working (thank God) ever since.<\/p>\n <\/span>I\u2019ve since learned several lessons. I’ve learned that because you\u2019re in communications doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re not broadcasting art\u2019s message. I\u2019ve learned that because you\u2019re a Fine Artist doesn\u2019t mean you don\u2019t teach art\u2019s message. I\u2019ve learned just because I\u2019m a graphic designer doesn\u2019t mean that I don\u2019t touch the brush and disappear in art\u2019s message. All different aspects of the heading Artist.<\/p>\n