Crit exhibition week (2)

For the Crit exhibition I ended up creating a peice mixing the coloured prints and the fabrics together, also experimenting with other different materials along the way. I didn't like the piece to begin with because of the pink background but I didn't want to change it knowing I wouldn't get any feedback from it. I chose to do it on the bed sheet because I wanted to go big and stay on using fabric, when I started I liked the idea of the sheet even more because of the way it shapes itself, naturally wanted to shape itself around something. One thing I got feedback from was why hang it on the wall and not experiment with different things the sheet could shape itself into. This may be something I will look into when the week is finished and I develop the work further.

Feedback

At the end of the week I had a lot of feedback which can help me improve my work and how to move onto the next idea. A big thing that keeps coming up about my work is the idea behind it, how it doesn't show my idea of colour and there is a lot more behind the idea then I think. When people look at my work they don't see what I see and I need to make my point more clear. I think I need to look more into why I use the patterns and what colours I am using. Why am I using primary colours and not mixing colours together to see how to make other colours. I need to look more into colour theory and look at the colour wheel. I also need to look more into the materials I use and why I use them, are they relevant or am I just using them because I can.
Something else that came up that I was really interested in was could I next make my piece bigger and turn it into an instalation, something that people could walk into and just be filled with colour. After this week I don't really know what I am doing or where I need to go next. Where I have used a bed sheet people think that my work is 'bed' related which im not making clear but in fact my work is not related to a bed at all, I was just experimenting with the way the bed sheet forms into a shape by itself. Another thing that came up was how held back and safe I am with my work in a whole, there isn't a lot on my piece and someone said they would like it if I did have more things on the piece.
A couple of artists that came up which I will look into and use in the next part of my project is Richard Tuttle and Lynda Benglis.

Looking a Laurens work

'Confessions' 

"This piece considers obsessive behaviour and asks when obsession ends; also references negative space and is contrasted by the unsaid."   

Looking ar Laurens work was really interesting and not one in our group disliked the piece as a whole. Some main things that came up and we talked a lot about was the fact that the writing is very personal and how open she was to have these thoughts out on display that people wouldn't normally express or talk about. We found the idea of having the work on a bed sheet engaging because bed sheets are comfortable, so at first walking over to the bed sheet you expect to read something comfortable but the things she writes about makes you feel uncomfortable, like you shouldn't be reading it and knowing the thoughts.

There was a lot of strengths in Laurens work being that the piece makes you want to read what she has wrote but not all of it, you kind of pick out little bits of information. We decided that most things were picked out from the centre. The fact that at the end it finishes on a semi colon so it indicates that she hasn't finished writing or her story isn't over, it feels like a cliffhanger that you want to just carry on reading and know what happenes next.

Some questions we would consider about the presentation of the piece would be, what if the sheet wasn't hung on the wall? What if it was hung in the middle of the room? But then we started to question whether you would be able to see the writing with the lighting coming through the sheet.