Let's talk about a dessin.
It may sound strange, but most of the students at my university compare literally anything with a dessin, from driving a car to a perfect amount of milk for a cappuccino.
A friend of mine talked about this man whom she met by a dating app the other day.
She said, "he cannot look at himself objectively, cuz he's never learned how to draw a dessin".
I'm not sure if learning a dessin has something to do with his selfish and narcissistic behaviours (I've actually never met this guy nor even looked at a photo of him), however, a dessin means a lot to us. Like an A note of tuning played by the oboe before an orchestra starts a symphony, a dessin is an absolute criterion.
When I was at a prep school for an entrance exam of the university, I drew a dessin every day after day. But telling the truth, it wasn't a pain to me at all. In addition to the fact that I aced most of the days in that class (which was a relatively small school, I should've probably mentioned it first), I truly loved drawing a dessin from the bottom of my heart. Once I draw a dessin, always I can find room for improvement. Then I can draw a better one. There's no such thing as a perfect dessin.
In those days, things weren't complicated, and I just repeated the same things over and over. I woke up in the morning, went to the prep school to draw a dessin, went back home, had poor meals, and went to bed. Nothing special happened in those days. Still, I was content (apart from the constant struggle of the entrance exam).
Even to this day, I really want to draw a dessin once in a blue moon. I could hear that subtle and fond an A note in the back of my ears. But I can never draw a dessin like I did while in that prep school. It's a bit of despair. I don't think I can improve my drawing skill any further for the rest of my life.
DON GIOVANNI
藝大のＥ年オペラの舞台美術の制作に携わった。演目はモーツァルトの『ドン・ジョヴァンニ』だった。
丸々ひと夏をこの舞台の制作に充てることになった。ただ藝大には舞台の専攻は存在しないのだが、不思議と舞台に興味を持っている美術の学生らが集まった。そのため例年のＥ年オペラに比べると、随分と立派な舞台美術ではあった。