How to Look Like an Art Student
The following list should be made available at the Student Affairs and Housing offices of your local Art school to help new and returning students adjust. It should accompany literature on the subject of hygiene and self-expression.
1. Bathing
• Get to know “your” smell
How?
Don’t shower more than 2x a week, at most. For example: Monday and Friday.
Switch to an all-natural deodorant or don’t use any at all if you’re not ready to skip or switch…try to see how many days a single application can take you…
remember, less could be more!
2. Hair
• Wake up in the morning (or afternoon) and fight the urge (passively) to run your fingers through your hair or comb, pick, brush, etc. it. Your hair will take care of itself and eventually take on a remarkable sculptural form
• Girls/Guys, shave your head, wear a wig. Throw everyone off! Do the opposite of what you do normally- a wonderful opportunity for you to explore notions of normalcy, conformity and convention.
• Dye your hair using harsh chemicals, (like Peroxide) or just Manic Panic. Who cares what your natural color is?
• Getting a haircut is only acceptable if the stylist is either still in beauty school, a friend of yours or if you’ve done it yourself.
• Body Hair is welcome!
3. Skin
• Always carry a sharpie with you to write notes or create patterns on your hands and forearms. This is a surefire way to keep from forgetting to turn in that paper next week.
• Make sure to pierce several parts of your body, consider getting a tattoo. Design your own! Your body is a canvas, work on it!
4. Clothes
• Disregard the decomposition of your wardrobe
Ie. Moth holes (or any holes for that matter especially ones in the posterior), fading, presumably due to washing, bleach spots, paint, food or sweat stains, holes in your shoes, (Or don’t wear shoes at all!)
• Don’t worry about washing your clothes, those stains add character and make your look unique. You might have bought your shirt at Abercrombie like the next guy but yours has burns and stains from that camping trip you took where you sat too close to the fire and drew on yourself with charred wood. So cool, display your individuality.
• Add accents to your ensemble for example: a headband, legwarmers, old hat, and/or Mr T. like gold chains.
• Wear bright colors, dazzling patterns, play with proportion: Expansion or Contraction. Baggy or tight to emphasize your relationship to the spaces you traverse.
• Think about what pieces of clothing to wear, or take away and in what order
For example: wearing a bathrobe belt on the backside of your velour leggings or cutting off the butterfly collar from your “interview” shirt and attaching it to a headband with some Velcro to your head.
Above All
Whether you deliberately slouch or walk tall know that you’re a Very Special Person, part of a countercultural movement, a rebel, if you will. Live hard! And true to you!
…and make sure to document it somehow with a/v.
1. Bathing
• Get to know “your” smell
How?
Don’t shower more than 2x a week, at most. For example: Monday and Friday.
Switch to an all-natural deodorant or don’t use any at all if you’re not ready to skip or switch…try to see how many days a single application can take you…
remember, less could be more!
2. Hair
• Wake up in the morning (or afternoon) and fight the urge (passively) to run your fingers through your hair or comb, pick, brush, etc. it. Your hair will take care of itself and eventually take on a remarkable sculptural form
• Girls/Guys, shave your head, wear a wig. Throw everyone off! Do the opposite of what you do normally- a wonderful opportunity for you to explore notions of normalcy, conformity and convention.
• Dye your hair using harsh chemicals, (like Peroxide) or just Manic Panic. Who cares what your natural color is?
• Getting a haircut is only acceptable if the stylist is either still in beauty school, a friend of yours or if you’ve done it yourself.
• Body Hair is welcome!
3. Skin
• Always carry a sharpie with you to write notes or create patterns on your hands and forearms. This is a surefire way to keep from forgetting to turn in that paper next week.
• Make sure to pierce several parts of your body, consider getting a tattoo. Design your own! Your body is a canvas, work on it!
4. Clothes
• Disregard the decomposition of your wardrobe
Ie. Moth holes (or any holes for that matter especially ones in the posterior), fading, presumably due to washing, bleach spots, paint, food or sweat stains, holes in your shoes, (Or don’t wear shoes at all!)
• Don’t worry about washing your clothes, those stains add character and make your look unique. You might have bought your shirt at Abercrombie like the next guy but yours has burns and stains from that camping trip you took where you sat too close to the fire and drew on yourself with charred wood. So cool, display your individuality.
• Add accents to your ensemble for example: a headband, legwarmers, old hat, and/or Mr T. like gold chains.
• Wear bright colors, dazzling patterns, play with proportion: Expansion or Contraction. Baggy or tight to emphasize your relationship to the spaces you traverse.
• Think about what pieces of clothing to wear, or take away and in what order
For example: wearing a bathrobe belt on the backside of your velour leggings or cutting off the butterfly collar from your “interview” shirt and attaching it to a headband with some Velcro to your head.
Above All
Whether you deliberately slouch or walk tall know that you’re a Very Special Person, part of a countercultural movement, a rebel, if you will. Live hard! And true to you!
…and make sure to document it somehow with a/v.
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