Right. Tutorials. Double edged sword or what?
Had a good tutorial on Wednesday, we discussed my display experiments, sound piece work and recordings, Bhimji’s Yellow Patch. Tutor not as keen on it as I am. But then I just watched it and listened to it, in isolation in New Art Gallery Walsall, not at Whitechapel with lots of other work, in the context of the artist’s oeuvre (oh do excuse my French!). My tutor thought Bhimji might be stuck. We discussed the causes for this, and market driven, commissioned art. Hmmm.
Then there was the look over her glasses and the comment. “You have to be careful not to get stuck”. Then we moved onto something else.
That sentence, among all the great things we talked about, the things that worked, and the things to think about, has STUCK in my head.
Am I stuck?
Does she think I’m stuck?
In danger of getting stuck?
Stuck stuck stuck stuck stuck?
So.
Out come the sketchbooks.
I do a bit of a flow chart from the beginning of my course, Sept 2010….. March 2012. This seems ok to me, I’ve moved on, changed tack, explored.
But what about NOW?
And what about NEXT?
I get out all my coloured pens and get writing, and drawing arrows and wiggly lines of possibilities from where I am now, and the thoughts I have for what to do next.
I think I’m ok.
I think.
I MUST NOT get STUCK
When I started the course I just wanted to do it.
Then I definitely wanted to pass it
Then I wanted a decent pass to reflect all my hard work.
Now out of the blue, it seems I want to blast it, ace it, blow ‘em out of the water!
Where the hell did that come from then?
