Sr. Review

Had Senior Review this past Friday (I passed!) and got some excellent feedback. I have a lot to think about but if anything it just made me that much more excited for the show. My committee brought up a lot of good comments about the idea of hierarchy as well as making the piece as a whole look more like "organized chaos" rather than chaotic. There was good ideas shared about how to integrate the type better as well as keeping a certain feeling consistent throughout the piece.

I know I must learn to talk about my work much better. This is a very complex subject I'm tackling, and while I get praise for that it truly means nothing if I can't express what I have to say in a simple manner. On that note as I work on all of the labels for the show with my peers show statements on them..here is mine..

Through out my life, later influencing much of my work, I have always been interested in the human subject. I believe we, as people, are more complex than anyone truly realizes. Through the use of anonymous survey questions, personal interviews, and research, this installation piece represents ideas about human connection and self-understanding.

Typographic statements, fabric swatches, old photographs, and a variety of estranged voices create a living, breathing metaphor representative of the personal layers in one’s life. The mix of media creates a non-traditional type of portrait while the specific subject remains anonymous. The idea of memory and self-discovery challenges the idea of how much we truly know about a person. There is good and bad, fear, secrets, and numerous perspectives to everyone’s life story. We are a culmination of everything we have experienced in our life and that story is worth sharing.