1st Thesis Group Crit 1C

... And so it begins, my last semester at Rutgers, my last semester at Mason Gross, and it's only taken 5 years to do it. All that matters is that i'm here now and nothing is getting in my way.

The first crit went well i think overall with everyones. Great feedback was generated all around which was very helpful.

In the case of my critique, i think it went very well. It gave me confidence that i'm on the right track, but it also gave me stress about how little time i have to create this and how my initial idea may be too much for me to chew. My thesis project, as i said in my crit, mainly depends on what space i get in the gallery. In the likely hood that i don't get my first choice i need to have a plan b to figure out how to achieve my goal. They liked my idea of re-creating dreams through the use of still images and video, but they were unclear as to some of the other factors in my work. The big question that i must ask myself is WHY am i doing this? Whats the meaning of all this chaos i am creating with my work. I can't just throw a bunch of random crazy images and videos together added with some creepy sound and hand it in for my thesis without any meaning backing it up. I want this to mean something, to have a backstory or whatever. So what i got from my crit was that they liked the imagery and the idea of the recreation of dreams, but they were unsure about how i was going to present it and what is the reasoning and purpose behind these recreations.

The other thing that the crit helped me with was that it reminded me of one of my flaws that has plagued me since freshman year. Trying to do a million different ideas all in one project. Every teacher i have had has told me that my one problem is that i try to put together multiply meanings and ideas into one EPIC project that just ends up too convoluted or just completely falls apart from trying to hard at being art. One thing that Gerry said that i will be taking into mind is that i just need to focus on one idea and stick with it. He said that he really liked the idea of recreating dreams and said that i should focus on that aspect and work more on making it a more concrete idea rather than just a bunch of jumble images. Since the crit i have already gotten rid of any other random ideas that i had for my thesis and am just focusing on one simple idea and then branching off from that.

In all i just need to really spend more time on figuring out the logistics of my thesis and working hard on recreating the dreams...

So let the games begin.