TAKING A SECOND LOOK!!!

I recently discovered a blog by Arthur Trombatta. He was a student at the college in Great Britain where I gave a lecture in 2014. He wrote about my presentation and my work. He said that my work had no reflection in it, that he had no emotional connection with it. Fair enough. I was not angry, well a little bit. This set me thinking about my work. What I wished he would have wrote that my work is superficial. This is not to be taken as a bitter attitude on my part. There was a teacher in grad school who said that my work was superficial. During grad school a visiting artist, who I will not name, said that my work was nothing, I would be nothing like Henry Darger. After reading Arthur's blog about my work it got me to thinking about my work.  I took a longer look at what I was doing. So, is my work superficial? I have no idea. Is it devoid of emotional content? Maybe. Is it too much of mental self-indulgence? Perhaps. I am thankful for Arthur's comments. The work I do is what it is. If its deemed surface and no depth by some, I accept that and embrace it. I will find an audience who will like and love my work, I will find people who will want to own my work. It may change over time, and who knows what the future will look like.