Today was the last crit I will have formally - to my knowledge so far of plans in academic circles. A crit, aka critique, is a peer discussion revolving around the developing artist, we take turn and verbalize the works experience and implications and culture and the gap between intention and reading of the work.
The visual language is a tricky thing to decipher- and essentially they depend upon thw individuals prior knowledge- so there is a distance that the feedback is valuable. But essentially if everyone agrees there is success in the air...
So what was mine like?
It was as I expected.
I asked my peers to tell me what they see- they suggested objects or artists the colours remind them of, but the overall silence meant I had left them grappling for straws. I quickly told them I am painting with ceramic and they returned qith a challenge to say well iyr not really in either field, and I agree
they ask where do you think you sit in the field od disciplines then? And I said it depends on who im talking to. That Really I am experimenting and because it is such a poor, pretty experiment its can only be an art.... the conversion rolls closer to 'drawing with gravity' and the fact I control the view when I hang and present work on the wall. Id do. I want people to enjoy the details of making glazes, I want to enjoy the images they make, close up an far away, the supports are structural and pictorial, I want them to serve two purposes . I hang them in a way to expose their vulnerability, and its relative to each piece.
One valuable interpretation of my work is that the piece is a mind map, a 3d creation of thoughts joined together by common ceramic qualities.
But as we talked about it further I understood that its not ceramics or painting or drawing I am interested in, they are methods akin to life and the situationist method of solving is the focus- ceramics is concentrated extreme permanent physics of life and, may it break or not look good, I sympathize and create a hanging environment to make it beautiful again.
