It has now been fully confirmed that the project that has consumed approximately four raw months of my life between flying abroad will, indeed, be shown on screen at the "International Contemporary Furniture" fair this weekend at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. I will be supplying my client with business cards in case anyone may inquire about my work throughout the day and I am hoping to be there to support both the marketing of my client's product and the marketing of myself.
I am both relieved and ecstatic. And like anyone else out there who may know what it's like to constantly weigh your level of professionalism to yourself, I am hoping that this event brings me more opportunities.
If it had been a group effort, I feel that this gig could have had the potential to be more of a stunner, but, as it was only me, I had to make alternate moves. So I stuffed in as much effort as I could in between a full time job and I am returning an end result as more of a "quantity-over-quality" type of piece in compliment with the demand of material requested from my client. It's warranted sometimes, I guess.
To some, the more the merrier. To me, the less you have to show, the more power and presence is needed underneath what is being shown. I am a detail freak at heart --- "Tweak" -- I call myself once in awhile.
I read an article in ImagineFX a couple months that professed that for most artists sometimes the "devil can be in the detail"... That every once in a while one must break free from the blase of lifeless meandering within a system of work and just tweak away at something until it can't be tweaked anymore. There's some twisted fulfillment in perfection in human beings that almost resembles a way of controlling what seems to be uncontrollable.
Well, for me... for now. I'm twisted, I guess. :)
I will learn. I've been told.
And I believe now.
Next time I will work those demons out on my own time with my own personal work-- for where there is passion there is a small need for portrayal of perfection. After this run, as the hours had seemed to slip away and friends retreated for apps and brews whilst I forged onward making not so bold moves in too bold of a piece of software, I suddenly found myself starting to get it. More and more every day.
Four months later, the project looks standard enough for me to be somewhat satisfied. Maybe because I know the work the went behind it or because I know the hustle of issues needed out by having to learn the differences between working in Max versus Maya. Maybe because, creatively, it was all me, and technically, I now know how to install multiple types of shower drains in a bathroom assembly. All in all, I just feel very close to being done, that I have learned a lot along the way. I am so pleased to be able to get the reward of having a crowd of people, small or large as it may be, see something that I can call my own hard loved labor.
THE INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE FAIR
Here is a link to the event in case you may be interested in the latest developments of furniture across the world and who's on the venue. Seems it should be pretty interesting... The future always is.
