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Hubbard CONTINUED FROM PAGE B1 accumulated over the years. She works with everything but clay — painting silks, photography, wood and bou tique. On the way to her studio, visitors pass through the garden her husband tends, including the fish pond and • the rocks taken as souvenirs from around the world. Formerly a barn, Hubbard’s studio is full of power tools specially made for her small hands. It also houses a copy machine, along with her var ied collection of beads, sepa rated sculptures of praying hands, Catholic icons, un finished pieces, headless statues, antique baby doll parts and, of course, broken clocks. Hubbard quickly earned an education degree at Stetson College in Florida, then took the leap and moved to New York, where she found her calling. In 1973, Hubbard and her hus band Pat, now a USC law professor, moved to Columbia. Art is a necessity for Hubbard. “I don’t ignore things very uma _ ■ i m an cApiurer. Depending on what else is going on emotionally in my life, if I’m raising children, that’s part of my work. If my father is dying, that’s part of my work.” JUDY HUBBARD local artist well. I have to go through them,” she said. Images that appear again and again in her pieces are separated praying hands, spi rals, broken clocks, ascension and flotation. Her explana tions add further dimension to the enjoyment of her pieces, many of which are dual-sided, and have some part that view ers can touch and interact with. “I’m an explorer,” Hubbard said. “Depending on what else is going on emotionally in my life, if I’m raising children, that’s part of my work. If my father is dying, that’s part of my work.” Hubbard said she struggled in the beginning without for mal training. “I have had to learn things for myself,” she said. “I’ve figured out that that’s what most artists do. It’s made me experiment. I’ve constantly proving myself to myself.” Hubbard said substantive criticism is something that should be embraced. “I do trust when things go wrong,” she said. “Really glowing praise doesn’t really help anything.” Hubbard’s most personal work is probably “The Lena Series,” which she showed at Columbia College in 1990 at a time when she was struggling to sell her pieces. The works focused on her great aunt, who was also an artist and died dur ing childbirth when she was 25 — the age Hubbard was when she began her ca reer. None of the pieces were for sale. “I took the economic fac tor out of it. That was the beginning of a more ma tured part of my life. I be gan to trust my work,” she said. It was also the beginning of her obsession with time. For her next project, she’s contemplating working with shawls or “art you can wear.” Strangely enough, it may have nothing at all to do with time. “I’m thinking of calling this one ‘Clean Slate,”’ she said. Comments on this story? E-mail gamecockmixeditor@ hotmail.com Check us out on the Web: www.dailygamecock.com Lithography process well worth the effort Lebby CONTINUED FROM PAGE B1 Everything else was minor.” Lebby attended Allen University and then USC. At school he discovered printmaking and the concept of multiple origi nals. “When you paint you just have that one painting, and when you sold it that was it,” Lebby said. “But with print making, you could produce and edition a number of the same image. It was a great way of marketing your artwork as well.” He has worked as long as three years on a piece. “I enjoy doing real tedious kinds of things,” he said. “I want the image to become more com plex the closdr you are to it.” _ One of the greatest parts of the artistic process for Lebby is the evolution of the piece. “Being spontaneous is good sometimes,” he said. “But there are times when you can’t get out of taking the time to watch the piece and understand how it fit together, and just getting so in volved into what you’re doing that you have all these other wonderful experiences also that you can’t get by doing it very quickly.” The South is a driving force in Lebby’s work. “I enjoy people’s relationships with life and the strength of those who live here, the hard ships that we go through,” he sgid. He said he is “able to express those feelings through my work.” Lebby said success is a rare and difficult thing to achieve. “Like my aunt said, some days you can eat the chicken, and other days you’ll be eating the feathers,” he said. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmail.com Decorating CONTINUED FROM PAGE B3 native to those eclectic linen closet collections. In a similar fashion, cook ing sets and storage containers are often available in similar packages. Manufacturers have obviously recognized the col lege student’s lack of house hold equipping know-how. For a reasonable price, such sets include all the basics — a box of cooking supplies, for exam ple, might include an assort ment of pieces ranging from small pots to cookie sheet? and ?patulas. As far as storage is concerned, the challenge is to make some thing out of nothing. The typical dorm room rarely has room for all of a student’s clothing, books and electronics without having its nooks and crannies reconfig ured. The space under the bed proves to be a prime place for storing linens, snacks and what ever else will fit. Plastic bins help to keep such items orga nized and are available at any mass retailer. Those who choose to loft their beds will also find the added under-the-bed space to be a useful area. A desk, dresser or futon can easily be placed be neath the loft, clearing up more floor space for other needed fur niture. Dorm decorating is ultimate ly a challenging, yet enjoyable process that calls on students to employ both their creative and organizational talents. Certainly no dorm room is com plete without posters, memora bilia and other such decora tions, but it certainly helps to have all the essentials in order before the tape and pushpins are brought out. For many, dorm life signals an added indepen dence full of new, but desired re sponsibilities. Living in a Horseshoe apart ment for the first time this year, second-year music student Kit Curtin said, “I own my own food for the first time in my life. I have my own spices!” Whether filling the cart with self-selected foods or searching the aisles for that perfect poster, students’ shopping list certainly expands when heading off to col lege: Thankfully, in today’s youth centered market, there are cre ative ways for college kids to equip and accessorize their dorm rooms without going broke. Even the Russell House Bookstore has an assortment of dorm room ne cessities — from pillows to Beatles posters — available to students who might have forgot ten an item or two on their last Wal-Mart run. With such a variety of func tional options on the shelves, the only thing an aspiring dorm decorator now has to ag onize over is what color scheme will look best in his or her soon-to-be less humble abode. Comments on this story?E-mail gamecockmixeditor@hotmair.com High Voltage CONTINUED FROM PAGE B4 The concept focuses on a qui et and stoic killer who blows away legendary Wild West fig ures such as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock, Jessie James and. Billy the Kid. Each character ex pounds upon his killing philos ophy — who and what is OK to kill and why. And then Meir Z. Ribalow, the script’s author, throws in a dull and cliched question: What if someone killed just to kill? Maybe this wouldn’t be such a problem if Ribalow explored the concept further — address ing ideas sUch as why someone would kill to kill and how some one would arrive at this philo sophical loop. The idea could in spire endless games with Plato dialogues or existentialist con ceits. It’s also hard to imagine that Jessie James would sit down over a shot of whisky and tell someone in perfect English what he found so fulfilling about killing. Even harder to imagine is the scene in which Wild Bill Hickock expounds upon justice and the American way in mam moth monologues devoid of any hint of character. Gan you say contrived? The only thing Cook could have done to rescue this script was throw it away, but then there would have been no play and no chance to break bottles on-heads and make people jump in their seats with the pop of pis tol fire. Don’t look for a deeper meaning between the lines of di alogue; appreciate the fights, the costumes, the tremendous act ing and the charged atmosphere. You’ll be sitting close enough that if Lunan and Cook slip up, somebody’s going to come stum bling into your lap, and wouldn’t that be something to tell the grandkids? Comments on this story? 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