I have been thinking about the opportunity we have to exhibit at the Atrium Gallery at St James Hospital. The underwear embossing i have been talking about in previous blogs made me think about hospital issued underwear. The white prints also reminds me of hospitals clinically clean white surroundings, the hospital patients could relate to. The prints although quite beautiful may be seen as quite dark. But do the patients in the hospital want to relate to being in hospital? Will the prints be inappropriate for the audience? Does anyone have any comments about this issue?
Monday, 27 April 2009
St James Hospital ...advice please?
I have been thinking about the opportunity we have to exhibit at the Atrium Gallery at St James Hospital. The underwear embossing i have been talking about in previous blogs made me think about hospital issued underwear. The white prints also reminds me of hospitals clinically clean white surroundings, the hospital patients could relate to. The prints although quite beautiful may be seen as quite dark. But do the patients in the hospital want to relate to being in hospital? Will the prints be inappropriate for the audience? Does anyone have any comments about this issue?
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I would show them. The clean white feel is appropriate and your decisions are based on an aesthetics of purity which reflects the environment.
ReplyDeleteThere is a long historical link between Modernist aesthetics and cleanliness. See http://www.uam.ucsb.edu/Pages/hygiene_archive.html
It would be cool if everyone could just put anything they wanted up, i guess considering the audience, especially in somewhere public like the hospital, is important as we have to preserve the colleges reputation as well as our own...
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