I was not totally happy with how much work I had done on the project and it felt like a constant struggle all the way through the project, I kept myself busy with drawing and trying different techniques of mark making in my sketch book. The piece that I showed, I thought was okay, but I felt I didn't want to carry on with it. I admittedly think that I could have done more artist research too.
I presented an A3 drawing of built up lines, which I had based upon the fabric of tights when stretched, and I think it was a strained attempt at connecting it with Shelter by taking the idea of clothing as our shelter and combining that with my practice.
On the other hand,the aspect I think it worked quite well when the piece was up. It was very basic, and below the drawing was the pair of tights I had based it on, and from this, I wanted the audience to connect the two.
I didn't think the idea of people writing down what they thought worked well. Where I had put my piece I found it got missed out by a lot of people, and when people did give me their input it didn't seem helpful at all. I also thought that the video pieces that were shown were given more commitment by the audience as opposed to just quickly passing by everyone else's pieces.
I did find it enjoyable looking at other peoples work, but I felt I couldn't criticise or give helpful feed back to the piece because it was not always obvious what it was about. This is realistic in gallery terms but with the idea of helping each other and maybe taking someones idea and thinking about it, I think was a bit foggy.
It was the discussion later on in the day, when asked to read our feed back back, that I felt benefited me. The feedback people wrote didn't help me as such, and in some instances didn't seem to be serious. But when asked about my work, and if it was purely about aesthetics, I could immediately say it wasn't but still struggled to put it into words what it was about. It was something I enjoyed doing, it was me. So therefore could be considered as a self portrait. I see myself when I create these style drawings,and the idea of getting lost and hypnotised when drawing them is something quite calming to me. I did find myself stuck though still, do I really want to carry on with drawing or has it come to an end of inspiration for me.
