A Change in View (College Exhibition)

That's right! The exhibition of my FMP work came and went!
I guess my first real post should be about how that went, eh?

By the time we got our walls, all I had were three small canvas paintings and a kind of big A2 acrylic dealy. The exhibit was beginning to look pretty crap, so I went home and decided to make use of my huge 32"x26" canvas. The final product was the USB plug. Even then however, I still had one more wall to fill, then Sy came up with the idea of putting all of the photos I took and referenced during the project and blu-tack them to the wall. It certainly filled much needed space, but also gave the photos the exposure they deserved (many of them could not convert to painting too well and ended up not being used).
Then after adding a few prints and some photocopies from my sketchbook, the wall was filled and affectionately dubbed "the sketchbook wall".


The point of the work was to show people that "faces" or even "human form" can appear in the oddest of places. Most of the time it's probably just coincidence, although I often like to think product designers just like to have a sense of humor. Perhaps sometimes they want people to notice the faces. Perhaps people would me more willing to buy a product if they subconsciously recognised the "cuteness" potential.
Anyhow, the third-party feedback I got from it was pretty positive, with at least one person going out of his way to find more faces in things. I'm glad it all worked out, and I hope people found it entertaining.
The only downside to all this is I always feel bad every time I come to change the mop heads at work. I keep seeing the fear in it's eyes as I lodge a metal pole into it's mouth and use it's hair to clean the floor.
The one that appeared in the exhibition though, has a safe haven in my home, sitting on top of the USB painting.

Exhibition night was of course, pretty full. I dare not stay in too long for the most part. And certainly not stand by my work for more than ten seconds. A good portion of the night was spent by me and my friend Miller eating pizza on the bonnet of his car. When I did see my work during the night, I found two of my paintings fell down. This is due to the awful velcro pads used to hold them to the wall. I used them last when Epilogue Soup was fixed to a wall. It was found later on rolled up on the floor and moved to an undisclosed location that I couldn't find for ages!
Of course, considering the size of the canvases, I assumed they wouldn't need more than three on each side, but of course, I was wrong. At least the USB painting was held up with hooks.
When it came to taking them down the next week (with some of the work cut out for me), it occurred to me that I had quite a lot to carry. I only brought one carrier bag, too! It's times like that I wished I could drive. How on earth was I going to fix this dilemma?

Genius!