posted by jockmooney / Wednesday 19th August 2009 / 12:57 / jva blog

Guts.

Today some of us huddled around a computer screen and read a review of the show in Timeout. While three out of five aint all bad, Mr Reviewer’s review was not exactly glowing, and he went on record saying that he didn’t care for my works, nor Mia’s. As this wasn’t made clear in the article, I feel I need to highlight that this gentleman entered the space on day three of a month long project. I would have thought he would have had the courtesy to pay a return visit – instead he seemed to take issue with the fact that I had the audacity to go barefoot whilst working – is that really relevant to the merits of an exhibition? Maybe he doesn’t have a foot fetish.

Don’t get me wrong, this is by no means a cry for sycophants or some back slapping – I am fully aware that my work will simply not connect with some people, possibly lead to disgust or simply non plussed-ness. My interest in this issue, is that even if he had given me a glowing review for my works on day three (sounds like Big Brother), this would still no longer be relevant. I suppose, in essence, my feeling is that his review was a bit comparable to reviewing a snow man in Hyde Park before it was made, or five days after it has melted.

He didn’t get it did he? I certainly won’t let this stop me from experimenting.