'Business' as in busy-ness.
had a very busy day today, and it's getting a little late (with uni classes tomorrow *sigh* a girl's work is never done... and dont ask why uni classes are a girl's work specifically. i dont give that much thought to my blogging sentences!) so i will just write a quick short note and then choof (rhymes with woof, and coincidently is also the sound trains make, i do believe) off to bed.
im quite content with the above paragraph, however i feel i should actually add a little more detail to the day. i spent the first half of it avoiding and putting off starting my calligraphy essay, under the guise of doing preparation work and final research. finally i picked the topic for good (changed from a biography which was difficult to get off the ground to a critique of a lovely graceful and slender, lithe, bony piece of work from the Tang Dynasty approx (650AD).
i further avoided starting the work by eating lunch and then calling leo for about 2 and a half hours. a very very worthwhile use of my time!
but finally the guilt and worry got to me (not sure why, i still have a few weeks until the due date, however i will have to puzzle out footnotes and referencing and appendice-ing before then) and i got started on it.
And surprisingly critiquing turns out to be awesomely simple! it's great i just get to crap on about arty principles like line, form, rhythm, movement etc. and i can just say that the characters are tall and slender and graceful and powerful and sensitive and clever and spritely and refined and elegant and balanced and skeletal and ethereal in a whole lot of different ways!
im loving it. (so need Leehom's maccas 'i'm lovin' it song playing! lol) i even managed to use the often overlooked word 'spurt' somewhere in the essay. i do believe i was likening a specific character to an archers bow, strong and supple, ready to release a spurt of energy. something along those lines anyway.
so now that you're all curious about what this amazing piece of calligraphy work looks like (btw i have a very nice book showcasing much of the piece, which i bought in china) i shall leave u to gaze in wonder of its impressive aura.
im quite content with the above paragraph, however i feel i should actually add a little more detail to the day. i spent the first half of it avoiding and putting off starting my calligraphy essay, under the guise of doing preparation work and final research. finally i picked the topic for good (changed from a biography which was difficult to get off the ground to a critique of a lovely graceful and slender, lithe, bony piece of work from the Tang Dynasty approx (650AD).
i further avoided starting the work by eating lunch and then calling leo for about 2 and a half hours. a very very worthwhile use of my time!
but finally the guilt and worry got to me (not sure why, i still have a few weeks until the due date, however i will have to puzzle out footnotes and referencing and appendice-ing before then) and i got started on it.
And surprisingly critiquing turns out to be awesomely simple! it's great i just get to crap on about arty principles like line, form, rhythm, movement etc. and i can just say that the characters are tall and slender and graceful and powerful and sensitive and clever and spritely and refined and elegant and balanced and skeletal and ethereal in a whole lot of different ways!
im loving it. (so need Leehom's maccas 'i'm lovin' it song playing! lol) i even managed to use the often overlooked word 'spurt' somewhere in the essay. i do believe i was likening a specific character to an archers bow, strong and supple, ready to release a spurt of energy. something along those lines anyway.
so now that you're all curious about what this amazing piece of calligraphy work looks like (btw i have a very nice book showcasing much of the piece, which i bought in china) i shall leave u to gaze in wonder of its impressive aura.
behold a very small portion of Chu Sui Liang's (596-658AD), 'Preface to the Sacred Scriptures' or Yan Ta Sheng Jiao Xu.
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