DAI November
Another week at the DAI comes to an end. I had some useful feedback on my carpet film, and we had a really interesting session on Wednesday; this involved everyone in the DAI Private group (that’s those of us who are more studio-based than public space-based) showing one piece of work, without commentary, and letting everyone else give their comments on it. This was useful from the point of view of being the one doing the commenting, since it really forced you to think and to form articulate observations, but also to get some feedback from other students on my own work. I must say that I felt this to be more useful than the one-to-one studio visits which we have every week from “expert” artists, curators, etc.
Listening to comments from your peers, from other people dealing with the same problems and questions and at more or less the same stage of their careers, provided a lot of very relevant feedback, and some sharper insights than I have come to expect from more established artists.
Further to this, I was very pleased because I had chosen to show a series of small concrete pyramids which I have been working on (example below), and I had generally good feedback on these. What was particularly encouraging was to have positive comments about something which was absolutely not made using the computer or indeed any other kind of electronic technology, since it can seem sometimes that I am tied to my desk and my laptop. In fact, here I am now, typing away. Time to go and do something else!
