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failure

Posted: Sunday, 15 April 2007

well my attempt into creating art work that makes a statement failed so I guess I should stick to the pretty stuff and leave statement Art to those that can do it better than me,

the met with a deafening silence (no comments) and the made some people comment on the Iraq war and most concentrated on men and war when the point of the journals quilts is the Killing of Children,

some people did understand but the fact that the first comment was so far from what the journals were about means I did not get my point across,
CHILDREN were KILLED, also I had written in large print:
USA Prestwick Israel Qana
then in small print:
ashamed to be british
I thought that writing the first part larger would alert people to the fact that that was the most important wording and that the smaller writing was referring to the incident in the large writing but judging from the comments I don鈥檛 think I succeeded, I would welcome any comments that would help you as a viewer to realise what the important point of an Art work is,

I found it curious that comments seemed more interested in my side comment of women nurturing and men killing than in the KILLING of CHILDREN and one commenter even seemed to imply that because women have killed too that makes it OK,

I have throughout my life been told I see things differently to most, I mistakenly thought the journals would make people more aware of the senseless Killing of Innocent Children,

Posted on Island Threads at 21:46

Comments

IT, if by my comments I`ve upset or offended you, my apologies. I DID indeed recognise your own comments on the killing of children, but you ALSO did comment on the nurturing nature of women versus the aggession of men and that is just one part I chose to comment on. (please also note, I did not condone killing because `women had killed too` but do know it happens and to bemoan and bewail it solves nothing in the real world) Also, might I just say, if you didn`t intend for the `ashamed to be British` comment to be noticed and picked up upon it might have been better to not include it in your artwork. Art is a subjective matter for many, through your own displayed here I saw political comment which I responded to, clumsily some might say, but with honesty. Again, accept my apologies for any unintended upset, I`ll not comment any further and wish you well with your artwork. :-)

Hermit from Sanday

Killing a fellow human, for any reason, is wrong, and the little children always seem to be the ones who suffer most. The death or murder of children in a war zone, is always used as propaganda, by one or other side. Who is right and who is wrong ? In my opinion, they are all wrong. Keep showing your journals, even though I didn't quite get it either.

Little Donna from Stornoway

How can engendering a discussion producing 18 comments be a failure? I do think the combination of fabric art and text is hard to pull off though.

Flying Cat from in sympathy

surely all art is seen subjectivly through the eyes of the person viewing it. The observer of your art cannot see into your mind or know what it means to you while you are creating that art and is therefore left open to interpretation by the viewer. If you want people to know exactly what you mean then you will have to write a long explanation to place by each piece. I have also created pieces which would be hard for others to grasp, but have not taken the brave step as you have to exhibit these pieces to see if others can see what i am trying to say. Don't be upset or offended by their opinions, use their views to work out how to put your message across diferently if this is what you want your work to be. You didn't fail, you got a reaction, just not on the exact points you wanted to get across. Keep up your origional style of art, at least you are brave enough to put something so personal out there to be commented on.

tanith from point

while i'm here.....can you tell me more about the lewis art club as i can't seem to find any info about it anywhere and realy want to come along at some point...

tanith from point

I'm willing to bet that the silence was due to the fact that no words can really describe how these things make us feel inside. I mean...why post some cheesy comment that will just cheapen the situation? Sometimes silence is the best reply.

Michelle Therese from Mainland Orkney

...but hard to read.

Flying Cat from The Sunroom of Eternity

first Hermit I am not offended or upset but I so want to understand why when you first saw the journals you thought 'Iraq', yes I know you posted again saying you then realised you had the wrong war, but I wonder what it was about the work that made you initially think Iraq?