After a hectic week, I feel the need to write again. Not sure if its being led by guilt due to not writing for a week or guilt due to not focusing on any of my recent investigations for a week!
Although my current project is uninterrupted time for R & D within that un-interruption, there are interruptions, and this mainly revolves around my part time lecturing. This week however, it has felt more like ‘full-time’. What with student shows, assessment and private views galore, I have been thoroughly transported away from a personal focus and sucked completely into the future of others- to be specific, art students.
This experience, although leaving me feeling slightly distracted for a week from my own work, has in away allowed me to reflect on my own journey since leaving my Foundation year in 2000. In doing so not only do I really feel my age, I also reminisce how exciting being an art student is and the impact it has on all you share life with- family, friends. Witnessing the faces of my student’s parents during the private view, I knew marked a shift in the relationship they would now have with their son/daughter. It was the start of something new and would be the turning point of which there would be no return. Gone are the A-level paintings, welcome to the real world- the art world! It has been a poignant week in many ways.
