Not sure I should necessarily be posting posts like the last one. (clearly not, Andrew has since advised me to remove a section from it) It can be quite difficult to gauge how much is appropriate to say on a blog. I do acknowledge that Digswell Arts Trust does provide much needed affordable studio space in an area where it is so few and far between. Without my space I know things would have been so much harder after graduation. I don’t want to seem ungrateful; it’s just very frustrating when you feel something with such potential isn’t anywhere near reaching it and you can do nothing really to influence that.
Anyway moving on. Last Saturday was the last day of the Margaret Harvey exhibition and there was a closing view in the afternoon. It was a great chance to be around to chat to people about the exhibition. I had expected it to be just a few of my friends that hadn’t managed to make the opening, but I was delighted to meet some people that had visited the exhibition during the 2 weeks and had made the effort to come back to meet me and chat about the work. One man came along who specialises in this particular area of visual science and perspective and its history. It was quite fascinating to discuss it with someone with such a specific knowledge, from such a scientific angle. The contrast in our approaches to this subject was really interesting. Him asking me ‘had I heard of this rule and that person and did I know the scientific name for what it was that I am actually doing?’ My answers were mostly ‘no’ and I admit I felt quite uninformed and pretty stupid, yet my work really excited him. There was me coming from a conceptual angle, relying on my own general cultural knowledge and very self directed exploration. My work definitely seemed to speak to him from a completely different place from which I knew very little about. Mmm feel there is lots of extra reading I need to do.
