What do you do when the viewer doesn’t respond to your work as you want them to?
I’ve been spending time in the cafe this week, instead of in my studio, talking to the customers and trying to get them to participate in The Cubicle Project. I’ve been surprised and pleased at how interested people are and have been delighted by how many of them have filled in sheets saying what they would keep if that was their only personal space. But most responses are about the luxuries they would keep – lap tops, guitars etc. But what about the basics like clothes and shoes?? That doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone so far. That was what I wanted people to think about. When the women come into the refuge, they had nothing except the clothes they wore, I was hoping people would reflect on that in this season of consumption.
I don’t know whether I should just accept it, or whether I should change the questions I’m asking to elicit the responses I want? Dilemma!
I’ve got the photographs from Zara, who very kindly spent Saturday morning doing shots of the sheet installation for me. I was relieved to get them done, as the installation will be coming down on 3rd Jan. I’m posting some here, and will be sending them off to some galleries in the hope…
Off to Hotbed press this afternoon to do some trial prints for a series I want to do of the buildings where the social projects were housed. I’ve also been doing linocut for the first time – really like it. That is this years christmas cards taken care of! Now just presents to get…
