my review was a real eye-opener, as i've heard it was or many of my peers.
because i'm telling narratives through portraits, i should have thought more about the narratives the portraits would tell together, placed next to each other. janie kind of told me from the beginning that i couldn't successfully tell stories of unrelated people together. And now I'm really understanding that.
I'm beginning to accept that m project has become about my dad. its not what i was setting out to do. but its where i'm at now.
but i also want to tell my mom's narrative. and i want to tell my parent's narratives together. i think that including my mom in the project will take this theme of human suffering and add love and strength to it. thats what it needs.
during my critique, jim said that i am incredibly attached to the portrait of my dad, in an only natural way, but not in a good way. that comment hit me hard, because i realized how true it was. and how its stunting my progress and artistic experimentation. but i'm concious of it now, an its a limitation that i am going to work past.
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