I just spent a magical, inspiring, and sometimes delirious, two weeks with a group of art friends for my MFA summer contact period, and I am leaving with a new goal: to make my work more strange. I want to dig up my personality's weird, awkward parts and put them on paper. This was easy to do while surrounded by equally quirky art friends. We riff on each other's ideas, suggest edits and are generally giggly when we're all together. This group dynamic, coupled with an exper