What if?

I decided I would steal/borrow/appropriate my friend Caiti's idea to make a blog post about an activity we did in our most recent Graduate Seminar this last Thursday. Caiti wrote about hers on her blog, you can find the entry at caitichan.blogspot.com

So, this past Thursday we were scheduled to have yet another grad seminar critique. These are no problem and are actually a lot of fun and insightful; you can get a lot of nice feedback that you might miss out on when showing your work to larger bodies of students, the dialogues that occur can be really good. The only thing was, this was set to be the fourth critique in a grad seminar class we had had in the last four weeks and we were all a little burnt out from the tedium. This day we were asked to select one work to show. We hung our work and were assigned perhaps at random (or perhaps not) to a fellow grad's work and asked to write 15 "what if's". No more information or guidance was given, and we were customarily released to our own confusion. 

Som was assigned a work of mine to reflect on and wrote 15 interesting "what if's" that I wanted to share. I have retyped it below to aid in readability. I should be uploading a photo of the work reflected on shortly once I am back in my studio. I also wish I had kept an image of the list I created for her. Perhaps I can revisit this post once I have had a chance to catch up with her and get some additional documentation. 

  

Travis (Trevor) 

What if...

1. the object artwork it were suspended (fishing line) something that wouldn't show
2. made the process markings were more apparent
3. used there was a dif. shade of turquoise 
4. there were more curves as opposed to angles, perpendicular, & parallel lines 
5. this particular piece this piece had a backside and was displayed on a the pedestal a pedestal/ground/specific pedestal specific pedestal?
6. more experimentation with finishing treatments to wood (stain/epoxy resin/pour wax on it/burn it/anything other than sanding it)
7. hung on the wall crooked
8. this piece was separated into 3 dif pieces perhaps act as a triptych
9. backside there was a backside and displayed
10. process parkings on the wall like in the studio
11. shadows painted on the wall that don't necessarily match up to the piece itself
12. hung a few more couple inches away from the wall
13. jutting out @ an angle
14. more holes in the side of the plywood in some kind of sequence
15. paint the whole thing blue