Yeah so I learnt something the other week. Had a rubbish crit with Tanya moments before an exhibition opening in which I changed the work completely. I then found five people to metaphorically crumple into and of course the free bar. Well just so you don’t have any grand visions of this exhibition it was a well-loved (crap) studio table with cheap beer and wine with some scattered crumbs from the food that wasn’t there more than five minutes.
Anyway… I missed the official crit of my work (geez I know what your thinking 4th year misses official crit gotta be headline news!) and had to go back, head lowered, to Tanya and explain all.
Just to put you in the picture I had to move flat just before the show. Which I might add I left way to late, but now know that if needed, I could move in 3days without having a flat to view before hand. It’s my most impressive last minute thing to date.
Knock! Knock! I’m back at Tanya’s door… well I walked up to it at least 3times prior to actually knocking. So she opens it and there are 3 other people there. Suited men not the art school type. “Hey any chance I could talk to you at some point.” I’m thanking the heavens at this point as she says “yeah sure but not now.” That’s not even what she said but it was all that I took from it. I was slightly bricking it (but you didn’t hear that from me right!) So some time passes and I eventually get to talk to Tanya. We go to her office. The door shuts. Shit.
‘Its not that bad’ I'm repeating this in my mind over and over. Haha. It’s actually making me laugh slightly. It was really bizarre. So we talked and talked in all I think it was an hour and forty minutes. We talked about my recent split from a long-term partner of 4 years (yeah roll on hardcore break up during dissertation woo!) and the moving of flats. My health… (I’ll elaborate later…) we also talked about how I would end up in a coffin if I didn’t change the way I approach things… yeah god knows how we talked about that haha. Oh and she gave me a tangerine. Who could ask for a better tutor! Oh yeah shit I didn’t even mention that we also talked about my work loads. Well seeing where my thought process was at that time.
I actually got so much from that conversation its totally helped focus things believe it or not. I recommend freaking out at a crit it’s a good thing. Really…er… moves the work forward in a round about way.
