I'd love validation at any level because at this point only the TAs and teacher make comments about my work. My friends in class ooh and ahh, but the rest of my class remains relatively mum, especially during critique. And it hurts bad during crit--if it's good, it's nice to hear it, and if it's bad, I'm aching to hear why it doesn't work! I do agree that art should be shared with the world, especially if it influences others, good or bad, or even just for shits and giggles. I hope I land somewhere in the middle some day.
My professor encourages us to take pride in our work, but wants us to keep in mind that each piece is a stepping stone toward bigger and better things. He pushes us further with each project, urging us to make things that say something and not just sit there and look pretty. He wants us to create things with miniature souls inside...pieces of our own souls. Even all the throwaway gesture exercises we do before the main dish, he wants us to put hearts into. All in all, he wants us to understand that clay is only what we make of it, and if we work hard (he works us like dogs), it will show even if the final piece looks like crap. And he's a damn funny guy so anything serious or deep he tries to impress on us is absorbed, like, almost instantaneously.
PLUS you should see all the pieces I made before this. OMFG, absolute crazy. HOT mess. I can't believe this piece turned out the way it did--I never thought I could be capable.
I was totally thinking of etching writing all over him in different scripts and languages, but another student got to it before I did. I do rather like the tattoo idea. Perhaps his back will get some crazy tatts for conversation's sake. It could be interesting to have something underneath all the scars and broken arrows....
My professor encourages us to take pride in our work, but wants us to keep in mind that each piece is a stepping stone toward bigger and better things. He pushes us further with each project, urging us to make things that say something and not just sit there and look pretty. He wants us to create things with miniature souls inside...pieces of our own souls. Even all the throwaway gesture exercises we do before the main dish, he wants us to put hearts into. All in all, he wants us to understand that clay is only what we make of it, and if we work hard (he works us like dogs), it will show even if the final piece looks like crap. And he's a damn funny guy so anything serious or deep he tries to impress on us is absorbed, like, almost instantaneously.
PLUS you should see all the pieces I made before this. OMFG, absolute crazy. HOT mess. I can't believe this piece turned out the way it did--I never thought I could be capable.
I was totally thinking of etching writing all over him in different scripts and languages, but another student got to it before I did. I do rather like the tattoo idea. Perhaps his back will get some crazy tatts for conversation's sake. It could be interesting to have something underneath all the scars and broken arrows....
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