The second part

Now it is time to create the second half of this project.
I will create an artist book with reflections about my piece incorporating artifacts I have collected through creating this digital folklore.

Exhibit date is set to June 14th & 15th. Maybe 16th until noon.

I need more people to collaborate so I can do the exhibition!
So far I have a few who are interested.
The exhibit will be at the Dog House behind the Gilman Parking Structure of UCSD.

I plan on creating invitations probably during 8th or 9th week.

A surprise

Kitsune.Suzuki/Shinobu hasn't e-mailed all the participants and viewers, but she has not received any angry response (yet).

Maybe they are just thinking that she is just acting.
I am not sure.
I have a feeling that people don't believe Kitsune.Suzuki is a fox, but somewhat acting along to what she is saying because Shinobu who created Kitsune.Suzuki is receiving e-mails of her pen pals confessing that they are pandas or some sort of other spirit.
It's very interesting.

Additionally, there are people who believe that Shinobu has been creating this entire story and I don't really think the viewers of this piece realizes that there is a lot more complicated things going behind this piece.
They will soon find out though when I create a link to another character, which is Remi. Remi is of course myself, but she also becomes a fabricated character within this story.
I am having difficulty explaining what my project is about to people because I start to confuse myself. I need to draw a diagram to make things easier for myself as well as others. I believe if I don't understand what I am doing, all the viewers of my piece would be completely lost.
I must find ways to explain myself a better way.


I am not sure what Kitsune.Suzuki's friends really thought about her last video.
The comments she has been receiving are really nice though.

last video

So I have posted the last video for my character up on youtube.
I really didn't like how she edited the video because I would not edit the way she does, but I tried not to be a perfectionist as much since the character and I are completely different entities.
I wonder how people will react to it after they see this video.
They might not even respond.
hmm.

Tomorrow I will send the links to Brett.

Editing

I am editing the last video for my project where my character reveals her true identity.
This will also be fabricated and throw people off.

I cannot wait to post this and start on my paper.

Finals Week

Soon this digital folklore would be completed where the character reveals her "true" self.

Anxiety

This project is making me depressed.

2 weeks left

Throughout this project, I have been experiencing a large amount of stress as well as an overwhelming feeling of guilt.
I believe I am pushing myself way too much that I don't feel as I am myself anymore.

The converging of different realities has blended together so much that I don't remember what I've done or the character has done. Our memories start to become the same thing because we are both using the same body.

I am sure my grammar and vocabulary is poor right now because I am tired...this blog will be refined more next quarter.
This upcoming 2 weeks would be the end of my digital folklore and I want to push the limit to how much people will believe and not believe. I would display clues and hints to make her seem fabricated.

I kept changing my mind to comedic to something really depressing, but at the end I think I will be going with the comedic ending for the first half of the story.
The depressing ending seem to be popular with other artists I looked up, so I decided to do something different.

3 months...I cannot believe how much I have done with this character.
I am excited to see how many people will care or not care after this piece is done.
I wonder how many people will call me fake.
I wonder how many people will appreciate or be interested in the fact that they became incorporated into my character's fictional as characters and participants.

Although I have somewhat of a guilt producing this art piece, I feel really happy because this is the biggest collaboration piece I have ever done and without the participants I would have not been able to complete this project.

Collaboration with artists as well as non artist has been something that I have been interested in, so this practicum provided me with an opportunity to do so.
Well...I am sure I could have done it either way, but I believe my school actually pushed me to finish this because it's a graduation requirement.

I believe that everything happens for a reason and somehow my wish to collaborate came true.

I cannot wait to fulfill my goals after I graduate as well.