howcouldiknow

I am graduating with my BFA in Photography from RIT in five weeks.  Between constant reminders of the horrors of the job market and encouragement to continue on to graduate school we have all lost sight of the value of what we have been doing and will be completing.  It is easy to feel that the degree we are about to receive has no value outside of the world of academia and that one could be doomed to food service for an eternity.  Fear is a part of change and of course we will feel like this, and of course it does not have to happen.  I have been reminding myself lately of the value of this degree, if not on a resume then to me personally.  I graduated high school in 2003.  I graduated with an A.A. in Graphic Communications in 2008.  Do the math, it was a two year degree that took me on and off 5 years.  I can list excuses and reasons and critical influences upon those years of my life but who cares.  What matters is that for me, getting to the BFA graduation is something I didn’t think would happen.  And to everyone I am graduating with:  This is a big deal for you as well.  I am now thinking seriously about graduate studies which must mean that I have gained some faith in my abilities.  This has been on my mind (due to the constant reminder of the end of the quarter on its way) today as I created graduation postcard/announcement/prints.  I think they are very nice 5×7 prints on heavyweight matte double sided inkjet paper.  I am going to send them out to friends and family to announce my graduation and give them an update on my plans for the future.   This is one of the images I used for the front from my series Ordering Systems. I used five different images, even though no one will ever know this.  It was more fun to work on printing a collection of images than to create identical prints.

I printed some with this back and some without the text block on the left hand side.  Since these are nice prints I am going to put them in envelopes, so in reality they are more like mock-postcards.