I found the group crit on Friday very beneficial. I think sometimes I get so absorbed into my work I don’t take a step back and reflect on what is happening. In the group crit people gave their opinions on what they felt was working well with my work, and asked questions that I hadn’t even thought about! This was key for me to reflect myself about what am I actually now showing in my work.
I think I have been too focused on the fact that I need to collect, what can I collect? How will I display these? In the last couple of months my work has progressed a lot a way from this. Collecting is still the main base behind all my work, I just need to not be so focused on making a collection; but to explore my collections I am making. The work I do doesn’t need to be repetitive like it was at the start of the year. I can do work that starts from me collecting, but I can do work from the collecting such as performance and video which I hadn’t thought about until the group crit where I opened my field of vision.
In the crit, Josh suggested it would be good to see the process of how my make-up wipes are stained in that way. I have been collecting these wipes since early this year. However why hadn’t I thought of doing this before? I feel it is down to me not taking a step back and thinking of other ways to create work. I have just been too focused on collecting, collecting, collecting.
This has now opened up a lot more ideas about using my collections in more exciting ways rather than just a collection. This is what I need to do to push my work forward. I need to be open and experiment more!
