This is what my work would look like if it was in the national gallery in leeds. The plinth and the glass case give it importance and make people it is art. Unlike when it is in the rubbish people would just asume it was meaningless even though it would be exactly the same thing. Maybe the plinth is actually more important than what's in it. Maybe I should just display an empty plinth but I think people have done that before. I am going to put my work on a plinth for the exibition even though this might be selling out my principles it looks better than it does on the floor and people wont sweep it up. I could say it was ironic because I am puting ideas which I have rejected in an important position.

I tried to experiment with different ways of presenting my pile of paper. This one with spiderman drowning in it was me trying to make out that the pile of paper was really big. I wanted it to be really big but I couldnt chew fast enough. I just wanted a figure of a miniture man so that the pile of paper would look huge in comparison spiderman was the only one I could find but I like it because it looks funny

I also tryed putting them in the pile of rubbish outside. This is the opposite of puting them in an art gallery because it making a statement that they are completly valueless. It is the place where most rejected things end up so because they are rejected thoughts and ideas this is probably where they'd end up if I wasnt trying to use them in my project.


I put these ones in my draw and in the pile of crap in my room because this is where most of my art work ends up eventualy. Also in my earlier blog I decided that because my art work was about my own lack of ability to think of good ideas i was the only real audience for it because I am the only person that effects so it should go in my own bedroom. But I have rethought that and now I think It would be relevent to other art students who cant think of good ideas.

I saw the man with 3 ears (Stelios Arcadiou) when I was watching this morning to start with i thought he must be growing it for a friend that was missing an ear but then he said it was performance art. The hosts asked him how it was art how is it asthetically pleasing or meaningfull in anyway. He said that Art was an escape from the mundane which I thought was an interesting quote. It is like the opposite of the artistic stereotype of cutting off your own ear because he is growing a new one it has the same element of attention seeking though, look at me i'm growing a new ear! He said it took him 10 years to pursuade a surgeon to actually put it in his arm. He said he is planning to install transmitters in his new ear , so people listen to what he's hearing online. This is very wierd its like the whole world is listening through his arm he says his work is about virtual reality.

National Gallery Edinburgh

I went to see the perminent collection at the national gallery in edinburg it was free to get in but had a pot for donations. It was very different from all the other galleries I'v been to because it was alot more old fashioned and the artists were all mostly dead. The paintings were all very big with massive gold frames. The subject matter was all very similar landscapes, dogs, horses, ugly babies and men and woman with big chins and wigs. None of the painting particaly seemed to stand out from the others. The painters were obviously very skillfull but I think it is a bit pointless now we have photographs to do realy realistic paintings with not much emotion and the composition seemed abit forced and wierdly put together. The presantation seemed to suggest how important and valuable they were with there massive gold frames and pillers and stuff. It looked more like an old national trust house than a gallery because it was not all white and spaced out but clutteres and over decorative like an old persons house. I did find it interesting seeing people from a really long time ago who didnt exist anymore. There was a table in the middle to do your own watercolours inspired by the paintings. You hardly ever see this in modern art galleries. It would be quite funny at some places like at a Damian Hirst exibition you could chop your own cow in half and put it in a case. I think if i put my chewed up pile of paper in these suroundings it would look very out of place unless it was in a case or had a big gold frame around it people would probably just think it was a pile of rubbish and sweep it up. I think it isn't realy about the old fashioned kind of art but the more modern sort of contempory art with ideas and stuff.

PILE OF PAPER WHERE SHOULD IT GO???

Where oh where should it goooooooooo? What is it about???????????????? not being clever enough to think of good ideas. Not wanting to be evaluated. Is it a comment on art? I think so but it might be a comment on me. how self obsessed. It would not be very good in the hospital because people would have more important issues like dying so would not really care if i cant think of good ideas. In fact nobody really cares about that except me. Which means i'm the only audience oh dear. Maybe it should go on my bedroom floor where i can tread on it and spill coffee on it and then the bugs can go and live in it. Maybe it is a comment on having to have good ideas. Which would maybe be intresting to other people who dont have good ideas but feel like they should. WHere is a place where lots of people feel like they should have good ideas but dont? here probably i mean the art college. Is it just the teachers who expect us to have good ideas? or society or something. Or just art society. Or just myself. And who decides what ideas are good? maybe i should put it in a pile on the floor and then every one can spill whatever they like on it or even set it on fire. Then I could start an insect collony in it. Well what i mean is that it should probably go in the Art college not the hospital.

headphones books and things

In this day and age many folks like to exist in there own private world though walking around with I pods and headphones or sitting on laptops in there rooms. Headphones or books in a gallery create a similar experience because only one person can look at them at once. Unless lots of people are listening to the same recording at once like in a silent disco. Then it’s a weird experience because it’s the opposite way round to usual because when you have them on you are all in the same world and when you take them off your all separate again.

free milk- Art galleries an idiots perspective

In an unusual twist on the customary wine this gallery gave out free milk. It was probably because the theme of the exhibition was WHITE: FOUR ARTISTS WITH NOTHING IN COMMON EXEPT FOR A LACK OF COLOUR. Oh apparently it was an art piece by Alicia Brook Smith who is interested in sociability, giving and receiving. This gallery had a much more DIY feel than the others which was encouraging because it made it seem that getting work in there would actually be possible. When up and coming artist Rachel Sutherland asked them about getting work in there they seemed very exited and gave her a bit of paper. Sometimes it was hard to tell what was art and what wasn’t I went behind a big black curtain because I though there might be a video or something but there were just a load of brooms. The directions to get there were very obscure one of them says ‘bear right here’ and just had a picture of a bush or it might be the sky its hard to tell. Maybe it was deliberate because there wasn’t very much milk to go round.