Emily Carr Undergradu-Art

I have a confession to make.

I secretly long to be a student at Emily Carr.

And although I love my job as a happily-employed engineer, there are times where my creativity lacks a certain outlet. I mean, just think about it, instead of performing complex Fourier transforms and utilizing Bernoulli's equation in ways I couldn't care less about, I could have been making great profound art or designing the next big sustainable thing-a-majigger at a fantastic institution. Many of my friends, who have attended or are attending the newly-minted university have always done such cool and funky shit.

Attending Saturday's Emily Carr Undergrad Exhibition definitely reaffirmed these beliefs of mine. To say it was an overcrowded zoo would be a serious understatement - it was uber-busy. But that was just indicative of how popular this yearly show has become. The $3 wine and beer made it all the better too... From a sock ball a gynecologist could only love, to massive sized sugar cubes (I confirmed that it was indeed sucrose) strategically placed in a symbolic pattern, to a sod patch complete with boxing gloves - it was all there.

The highlight of the night for me was meeting the now world-famous Melanie Coles, the goddess of Waldo in Lotusland (I now realize that I have mentioned her three times in less than a month on BR). She happily informed me with an enthused perkiness that she received an 'A' for her work - well-deserved considering the trials and tribulations that she encountered while trying to find a venue for her oversized pictogram devoted to the gods (or man-made spy-cams) above. She's now famous in Japan by the way. Now if we could only harness her celebrity status and convince her to join the BR team... hmmm.

In any case, I'm not trying to be a senseless Emily Carr promoter or anything, but seriously, make an effort to see this stuff before they shut'er down on Sunday. In the meantime, the pics I shot below can serve as a nice preview or review if you've already sauntered through the show... and while you check those out, I'll be working on my ECIAD admissions application (or is that ECUAD?).

The Emily Carr Undergraduate Exhibition is open daily on Granville Island from 10am to 6pm until May 11, 2008