Mentor Meeting 5/26

Today I met with Sam and he really helped me compartmentalize my various pursuits.
~ Exploring the medium, techniques, and physicality of painting (large scale painting in progress)
~ Exploring abstraction and collage (character sheet piece)
~ Exploring art as social practice (reading about relational aesthetics)

We touched on so much and I'm going to try to summarize what we discussed:

When we looked at the character sheet, we discussed a lot of options of where it could go.
~ Collage character sheet elements
~ Make multiples of the panel I have already created (going to do at least 2 more)
~ Paint tones on top of the panels that portray the attitude of the character
~ Do paintings or collage as the characters themselves (amazing idea!)

One thing is for sure, I need to gather as many of those character sheets as possible and simply look at them. Set aside time to simply react to what is before me and see what comes forth.

We had a little chat about the business of the fine art world. We discussed whether or not I should be concerned with the marketability of my work, and the consensus is generally no, and that if the work is developed enough, and if you know the right people, you should be fine.

One thing that sparked some excitement was the potential opportunity in the future to create an exhibition. He mentioned how understated the skill set of organizing an exhibition is. How you use the space is very important and should be given the time of day. I really want to generate an exhibition that portrays the way I feel about roleplaying games to a general audience.

One of the themes we discussed was how the experience of roleplaying is always more interesting than the newcomer initially thought. It is important that if I generate an exhibition, that I try not to disguise the roleplaying too much, or else it may loose the joyous impact of the experience. Sam also suggested that I develop some way to have the audience interactions at the exhibitions somehow influence the next exhibition, much like when a DM adjusts the story between each session based on what the players did. Brilliant! Just what the hell am I going to do though lol

We talked about a lot of other things, but these were the real hearty topics we covered. Its always a good time meeting with him and I am very thankful for his help.