Friday was my thesis group critique with Ben Critton and it went pretty well. It was good to have a fresh pair of eyes looking at my work and giving feedback. I actually think he offered a lot to everyone for the critique. He basically said, in regard to my thesis project (on hand typography), that even though it has been done a bunch before, and has been really popular in the past ten years, I need to find something that makes my exploration and thesis outcome fresh. He said maybe working on a larger scale or finding one thing to focus my hand lettering around. I've been working on a few series of hand lettering, and before the crit on Friday I was thinking about picking one or a few particular studies from my thesis work thus far and making them on a much larger scale to hang in the gallery, with a book of all my process and work accompanying it, somewhere.
What I've mostly been working on with hand lettering is writing out phrases, thoughts and some letter compositions. But I think it's coming time to find one part that I want to start focusing in on for my large-scale finished pieces. Right now I'm leaning most toward a composition of letters, because if I have a phrase or words it's giving the viewer something specific to think about, but if it is only letters the viewer can just focus on the forms, detail and composition, not what the work specifically is saying.
During the thesis critique I was given some artists to reference too. I've been looking at Tauba Auerbach, Ed Ruscha, and Kate Bingaman since the critique.
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