ST2DENT EYE

ST2DENT EYE.
I must confess...whatever I used to think about design and where it would lead me, or what I thought it could do for me...has taken me on another course. This pandemic and the protests, and our whole political weirdness, has hit me badly. More of an emotional hit. I got furloughed from my design job. I've applied to and have been rejected from other design jobs. And then it just hit me...I have to stop looking at this landscape the way I used to before. One way I'm starting to do that is creatively by unlearning everything I've been taught, and to truly look around at the information around myself...as if I am a student in class but more a student of what is informing me daily. 

Before I developed my "style" of what I wanted my work to be and look like, it all started with designing cartoon eyes. Copying the work of artists who inspired me, until I was able to put my own spin on it. 

The eyes. Symbolism. There could be a complete body of work my inspirations put together but if they were illustrated characters, I studied their eyes more than anything else. How they designed them. What characteristics did they take on. 
What they were saying. How they were positioned. But eyes are the things that tell you the truth of things mouths won't say. Also, our own eyes function to 'see'...physically and spiritually. 

STUDENT / ST2DENT / S2DENT.
I honestly can't 'see' my way out of this. Or what the new path will be. And that is teaching me a very valuable lesson to myself: On Humility. On being a student, rather than thinking I know the way (ego). But also in these times where truth are lies and lies are truth, I'm on a quest for liberating myself. And I want to be able to express this creatively and through feedback and dialog. I'm still learning.