Namaste
Today was my first time getting a chance to model for Pratt Institute. This was a complement, for those that are unsure. These were words use to discuss the work student were doing of me.
It was a 3 hour class with a number of different types of poses. (I was very grateful, I was not in one pose today. I would have fallen asleep. I was out way to long the night before.) As the professor went on instructing the students how to approach drawing me, she said 'This is an extraordinarily unusual figure you have before you.'
Now I know show of you, because of where you are in your journey, would see that as a diss. It is not. Number One, most art models are not my size. Generally they are athlete and dancer types. So my presence is unusual to a class. Extraordinary, because it is out of the normal that they have to draw and it forces some of them to approach drawing or painting me using the skills that are not normally challenged by smaller models.
I am proud to be an 'Extraordinarily Unusual Figure'. You should be too.
Today was my first time getting a chance to model for Pratt Institute. This was a complement, for those that are unsure. These were words use to discuss the work student were doing of me.
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| June 2011 photo shoot in Philadelphia, PA for Kim Mintzer Images |
Now I know show of you, because of where you are in your journey, would see that as a diss. It is not. Number One, most art models are not my size. Generally they are athlete and dancer types. So my presence is unusual to a class. Extraordinary, because it is out of the normal that they have to draw and it forces some of them to approach drawing or painting me using the skills that are not normally challenged by smaller models.
I am proud to be an 'Extraordinarily Unusual Figure'. You should be too.
