Project 4 Post-Critique Response
After a ball of masking tape the size of my head, two tubes of Gorilla Glue which spent the better part of this past week coating my fingertips, severe blisters on my hands from my pliers and the wire, two large spools of twenty-two gauge wire, five sheets of foam core, three sleepless nights, and countless cans of Red Bull, project four I think can be deemed as a success!
At first, I was extremely worried about not relaying my content well enough, but I’d say it came across fairly well in this case. The purpose of the project was not only to embody my church’s mantra, but also to capture the fleeting quality of place and time through the use of something that is surprisingly fragile. The major issue that everyone, including myself noticed was where I had hung it up in the Capstone gallery. I honestly wish I would have hung it up on the opposing wall closer to the door for the purpose of having better lighting on it. That is one major consideration I need to keep in the back of my mind if and when I display it again. Other than that, the overall feedback was wonderful. The suggestion of different elevations in the places was an interesting one to consider, in that, it would take on less of an appearance of a drawing and enter the viewer’s space more like a relief sculpture, though I am hesitant due to the distortion it might cause. This is definitely a line of research and a method that I would like to explore more. I can definitely can see myself making more work like this on different colored foam core or even on an actual gallery wall in the future. Someone had suggested toying with the mount color as well as the wire color which is something that I considered and think that the choice in materials can further inform my content of future work depending on where I take it. I really liked this project because it helped me learn how I can incorporate 2D art with 3D in a really unique way. It also has been one of the first times I was able to take influences from other artists such as Richard Serra, Catie Newell, and even my Drawing II teacher (the concept of doing the redacted contour line drawing of each place came from that class) and make my own unique thing. When it was mentioned that it could be imagined that this work could be an installation on a gallery wall rather than a mounted object, I really enjoyed that idea. The other major thing that I learned with this project was patience. This project was a real struggle to try and finish at some points, and there was even a point halfway through getting it on the foam core that I just wanted to give up and bring in what I had because it got super frustrating due to the method I’d used to mount it on the foam core. So, the importance of making a commitment to a work and how you choose to execute it as well as knowing when I need to take a break on it and come back to it later was something that was huge in this project especially.