Week one intro- a bit of goals...

I am in the middle of writing a research paper on old masters optical techniques which is very very exhausting and annoying in its' overwhelming mass of information on the topic....I am also researching various topics for my senior show including psychological social awareness, military morality, and habitat/self awareness. I plan to do a series of paintings that use various man-made and natural fibers, mixed with painting and drawing, etching in plexiglass and lots of diagrams (which I LOVE!) I don't know where the fascination with diagrams comes from, something of an innate sense of being an animal which wants to take things apart, dissect them, until I understand its workings. This will be a series of works like none i've ever produced and I am trying to put an intellectual meaning on the work I make from now on and envoke with my work a subtle yet honest view of human relationships with the self, others, and our surroundings. Wish me luck, cause I'm starting my paintings tomorrow! I've been putting it off all semester, and I'm finally diving in. cheers to procrastination.