Today we critiqued our final piece for SEE Lab. I got a lot of great suggestions including smoothing out the aluminum foil, and paying more attention to covering the bits of cardboard peeking through. I was encouraged to think about what is the proper way to document this piece and whether the outfit itself was the art or whether its interaction with the surroundings was art. I really like this because one of the inspirations for the piece, Yayoi Kusama makes costumes that interact visually with their surroundings. For my final documentation I did this with the artwork surrounding the space. My favorite photo from that is below.
Dale Mott Slater’s tapestry is the background for this photo.
Julianna Dougherty’s installation is the background of the photographs above and below.
Reflection: I had a lot of trouble with getting this project to the point of being “finished”. I spent a lot of time creating the base structure and then going back and deconstructing and just repeating that cycle over and over. I had so many ideas and plans and I wound up spreading myself thin. I do not think I created what I envisioned and now I see the flaws in my method of working. Hindsight’s 20/20 right? A very small contribution to this may have been the daily canvas/blog updates. I think they made me feel a bit rushed and constrained within my own initial ideas. Going back I would probably spend a day brainstorming a variety of projects that are intentionally very different from one another, and then really think about which one would be feasible and produce a good final product. I think I took some risks this time around and I hope that some of them payed off, but I can definitely see where my work fell short in scale, craftsmanship, and presentation.
Grace Dunham 