Open call. Check. Crit

Submitted to Short Supply Open Call.

Added all instagram and websites and added this as the supporting image.

Spilt my work into resolved and unresolved in the studio ahead of my crit.

Resolved works on the left and sketches/testing and unresolved work on the right.

Spoke to Ian about what I was considering for the exhibition in a few weeks and spoke about my plans to paint a larger peace based on AI. 

This led to a conversation about where AI draws information from; it's not necessarily societies catalogue of images but large corporations.  Consider what I'm interested in exploring - do I want to look into how AI sources information? Not really, I was looking for a way to generate images that I could use as references building on assumption and stereotypes.

I'm glad I've done this, but if I do a painting of the Madonna thinking about momento mori and how birth rates have dropped and people are buying dogs instead, maybe I'll look to other sources.  This opens up a whole new conversation - or maybe I'll paint from the AI reference, but I'd probably change things anyway - what does that do? and what audience is that for? It feels like a fun project and a bit satirical, and I did want to bring some energy into my work instead of being all woe is women.. but I haven't quite managed to get humour into my work without thinking, well that means I'm not doing serious work and doing something significant... (odd)

I talk about scale in my next post- this conversation encouraged me to continue with the small samples and not feel like I have to go big just for the sake of it. 

 - small can be effective and ineffective as much as big can be effective or ineffective 

I like the idea putting lots of smaller paintings together to create a bigger conversation, I've always been interested in small areas and cropping so this feels like a nice direction to explore. I will think about making the squares uniform in size though. 

I did consider in the evening if I need to reference experience more but I'm quite keen to keep my practice broad and focus on things that everyone could relate to.

Still pondering on if I like the witch and how other people might respond if I had a further conversation about the first witch - why was that their first witch, was it a positive or negative experience and how did they relate...and do they "like" witches.