Post Crit Reflection

I’m not very good at filtering initial feelings, and tend to have a knee jerk reaction when it comes to negative critiques of me and, by extension, my work. I feel like yesterday I possibly over reacted to the negativity of the crit and, having slept on it, I feel a lot more positive about the feedback we were given. I came round when I remembered that actually I myself had thought that the images perhaps looked a little like a selection of preset background images for an iPhone. I also need to remember that the tutors opinions are just that, and art is so subjective that I don’t need to take on everything they say as fact. Realistically these were responses were what I would get from a client in the real world, and preparation for such is key.

I must say I’m quite worried it’s going to be hard for me approaching the next project on the back of this last crit. It’s difficult because whilst I feel I am approaching this degree from a much better place personally, my confidence in my artwork has taken a severe knock. The crit for the drawing project ended up being so productive because I wasn’t proud of my work, at all, but this crit was that little bit more traumatising because I had felt so confident in our work.

The images could have definitely followed a more coherent theme. We also didn’t complete a project above and beyond the requirements of the brief in order to achieve high praise, or in our case praise at all. As for aspects of the group projects to be followed further, I think exploration of the kinetic elements of light use would be interesting. I liked the proposal of creating a light structure to photograph and create more images like the ones we put forward of our final two.

In order to throw myself into the compositional awareness project I’m going to have to temporarily draw a line under this one. I’m a little raw still and feel it would be more  productive to approach it again when I’m feeling more subjective about it.