#critique response

[codyfernconfessions]

[claresmith]

i don’t really have a lot of response to my critique feedback. I’m mostly relieved this project is over, from start to finish i felt like i had no idea what was going on and very little control because it was such a new thing for me. i’m really glad its over and i don’t have to worry about it anymore. from the start of the project (not knowing what to do) to the debacle with the materials ( it took much longer than i wanted to get the materials because of financial things and customer service setbacks) to the FINALE (when I was feeling cool and confident but premier Really fucked me over and put my computer out of commision) I feel like I got what I wanted out of it; some experience with mold making and a number of odd unwanted gifts i gave to close friends and acquaintances. i so desperately wanted to have my projections on the walls of the crit room, because so much of this piece was the experience of making and the conversations i had during and after about the nature of the object, of gifts and gift giving, and the relationships I have with my friends and the materials I used. I’m bummed everything went to shit when i was putting final touches on it, But my computer is working now so I guess thats all i can ask for.

A lot of the feedback was to recontextualize where the gifts would be given/ where the materials are. I think that’s the best suggestion i got, and if I was to do this sort of thing again I would definitely consider the aspect of where i presented the final piece more. the main focus of this was supposed to be about the process behind gift giving and how a useless object of ‘love’ is interpreted by people. because my behind the scenes videos didn’t work, i tried to reframe as a process vs finished product sort of thing, which is a concept that seems so overused and boring.   im disappointed in this piece mostly because i had such a good response last time, and with everything that happened i ended up hating this piece. i wish everything had gone more smoothly, maybe the lesson here is to tone it down? to not use premier? who knows

(the night before critique is when everything digital crashed as i was making the final edits, i had a meltdown after my computer died and i thought i had lost all my files from my past 3+ years of owning this computer. in the midst of this i sent my professor an email trying to explain the situation. i reread that email just now and i wanted to apologize to you corrin because that was a Mess and pretty embarrassing to read)