Final Review
So yesterday I had my end of year review, as is customary in the Visual & Critical Studies department at the SVA.
I’m not sure how useful it was.
Most of the feedback I felt were things I had already self-assessed. Get larger. More fabric. Etc.
The people reviewing me saw Rauschenberg’s influence on my work. I’m glad they were able to see that. I wanted that.
But there were a few minutes where they debated what my art was. This made me feel really wrong. I print things on fabric and assemble them. There was a moment where the people reviewing me almost came to a consensus that the objects were sculptures.
I don’t want that.
I want them to be art, to be art objects. To be these occurrences and not classified products.
And then they suggested I design patterns and get them mass printed on fabric to make larger pieces. But then I’m not printing them and it goes in the opposite direction of the theories I’m working with.
The theory that I have to work with what I have and learn how to use and draw inspiration from these things.
However difficult that may be.
And then I constantly have this underlying feeling of wanting to do the opposite of what everyone tells me. I don’t know where that comes from or why that’s there but it is.
I’m trying to avoid it.
I might just be back to figuring out where I’m going on my own.
At least for now.
