Current work trials/ critique:

• In this work I am trying to generate an image that is a deconstruction of a selection of found garments that have been completely separated form their original function. I have personally taken these items through the deconstruction process and reoriented them to form an image where these everyday, humble materials aspire to make connections beyond their mundane nature. I don't necessarily want to make direct connections to anything in particular, I want the viewer to have their own experience with the works and make their own individual connections, these are dependant on their own past experiences. 

Critique:

Particular work: Floor work (orange and purple wool)

• one colour overtaking the other
• solid compared to flimsy
• smothering it
• the purple is claiming the orange
• power struggle
• containment

• other suggestions for further exploration:
• Including other objects
• this can create a strange relationship between the material engulfing it
• material relationships
• this is another way that an object may also lose its original use..

Points mentioned that i am not particularly interested in/ want to eliminate referencing them too directly:

• ethnicity - each one acting as a separate ethnicity
•  each one working on their own as a separate piece  - I want to consider this more, whether I want to link my materials together more? an installation of many? separate works? or one simple or more complex work on its own?

Other ideas:

Dematerialisation:

• questioning what it was before?
• remnants....how much of the original I want to leave for the viewer to be able to reference its previous purpose/use
• Why is this idea of dematerialisation interesting????

• The world is there to be re engaged with!
• rehabilitation
• process - mindless, labour, time
• creates a conversation between the two - the original constructor and me the de-constructor and then reconstructor. 
• investment of labour into something adds value...something grander than it is in the sense of value...
• it adds value when it makes connections with something else beyond it..

• Art can be about questioning and making statements
• reorientated
• de-functioning, re-functioning
• anabolic/catabolic shift

Other decisions to make about presentation choices:

• hard when there is too much to look at - too much visual clutter
• we were better at finding the signal in the noise...sometimes we can and other times people don't bother/visual over load
• what is excess?
• colour tone can help when it comes to presenting an excess - eases the eye..if thats what I want
• or...too much colour can be exhausting!

This critique was very helpful in allowing em to see that my current ideas of reorienting mundane materials are showing through but i have some further decisions to make about how I can make this more conceptually interesting and structured so that my works have more purpose for myself and for the viewer to work with...keep them interesting.