Life Without Art

Before I graduated, I actually used to draw a lot. Mainly because I picked Visual Arts as a subject for my Prelim and HSC years.

I've done Visual Arts ever since Year 7. Six long years of such a relationship which I dearly loved. I struggled at times, but I loved every minute of the creative journey and experience. Having studied art for so long made my eventual inability to imagine what it would be like to not study art somewhere, somehow.

Until I made it in to University of Sydney, not studying visual arts in any way at all. The degree I'm doing is actually closest sociology more than the arts, and I guess that's kind of an advantage since my highest score in the HSC was from Society and Culture. But I did apply for an art-based degree, except I didn't get it because I'd already received my first university preference (I was actually a bit bummed that I didn't get into COFA because I really wanted to give jewellery design a crack - I feel like I need a break from painting and drawing and that I need to venture out onto other artsy stuff - and possible start a business!).

Honestly, before I couldn't imagine what living life without art was like. But now that I've taken a break from it, it actually feels kinda liberating! It feels great and refreshing. Like I'm ready for new interests and hobbies too.

But when I see hardcover art books, the new works of my favourite artists or a really epic drawing or painting, I start to think 'Maybe I should start painting again so I can pass time whenever I'm really bored'. And you know what? I just might! Examine the illustrations I did above for my Visual Arts major. Honestly, they're not even that good. I was way too indecisive, my mind was unclear and for me, I didn't have enough time to come up with what I really wanted my major work to be about. So I just did all that in a rushed fashion. I rushed the entire thing, pretty much. (It sucked at first how when I finally finished the HSC, that's when I started coming up with good ideas for my major work, haha)

I don't know if I'll ever start drawing and painting again hard-out. I'll probably get busy from now on since I'm getting older. But if I did, art will always be something in my heart. I'll always love it, and I know that whenever I feel like life just gets too adultish for me, I'll turn to it. Since early childhood, I've always been the girl who's loved loved loved eye candy, and the same still goes now; art will always inspire me to the bones even if I don't become a jewellery designer with her own business, an art curator, an illustrator or even an art teacher.