Compositional Crit

A lot of the pressure was taken off the crit we had for the compositional project today. Everyone, including myself, has been pretty overwhelmed by the workload the past couple of weeks, what with the double project-essay deadline combo. However, the wonderfully lovely tutors that we have (sycophant alert) have let us off a little with a more relaxed approach to analysing our work. We were put into groups and each person talked through what they had achieved for the project in the time we had, with little emphasis on part II.

When looking at other peoples work it was fascinating to see how different people had approached the same brief. I had stuck to a very literal exploration of the compositions- with little contextual backing. Other people had incredible concepts to back up their work. It was a really enjoyable crit, and made me feel a lot better about the amount of work I had produced. There is a lot of room for improvement in my project, for example I have barely touched upon the requirements of the second half of the brief, but there’s time to explore this further I’m sure.

I agreed with Gary that my collages with images of ‘The Pink Man’ were a lot more lively than the 2D compositions I created. I want to explore more uses of layering and photography when I create more pieces from the given categories in the second half of the project.