Saturday, April 01, 2006

Answers


They're just not here. I have absolutely no answers for this project. I just can't get into it. I'm so goddamned frustrated with this project. I keeping researching hoping something, some sort of an answer will appear. Tidal charts. Erosion systems. Soil analysis. Historical Photos. Cultural history of the site. Other precedents around the world. Stormwater filtration systems. Large-Span steel structures. Core samples. Satellite radar data. It all seems so arbitrary and my interest in this project has totally vanished. I'm tearing my hair out and getting nowhere. Someone told me I'm thinking about it way too much, I should just choose something and stick with it.
I just can't do it. I keep looking for something - the one thing that'll make all of this stuff piled on my desk make any sense. All I see is a pile of crap that is moments away from being tossed in the rubbish. I'm so tired of producing garbage. I'm surrounded in the studio by 40 students all working on the same project and I don't like any of their work.
I just can't get started on this project. The 20 page History papers are easy to do. The site Engineering class has been a breeze. But when it comes to studio I am......lost. I have a mountain of work I should have done for a review on Monday, but don't have anything because I can't create a project I believe in.

I don't even know what I believe in.

[The picture above is from a European Space Agency Remote Sensing satellite and it is a radar image of stormwater runoff plumes from the LA and San Gabriel Rivers into the LA and Long Beach Harbors]

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