Collective Perception Reflection- Elizabeth Welsh 

When we were first presented with this collaborative installation project and given two weeks to make our ideas happen I knew that it would take a lot of teamwork and communication within our group. I think we really came together and combined a lot of different thoughts to create Collective Perception. Overall I think we did an amazing job pulling together our work and installing it in the gallery, especially in only the short amount of time we had. It was a great experience getting to work collaboratively with everyone and also getting to work with Simon (our inspiration)! 

If we were given more time to work on this project I would have liked to collect more pictures, maybe even enough to fill the entire wall with several rows of images. Adding pictures to our installation would not only give us a bigger variety of people and personalities, but it would also fill the entire gallery space. I felt that we did not have enough pictures, which made the extra space on the wall really stand out. I also think that it would be cool for the whole space to be filled with little speakers so the audio is everywhere instead of just on the text screen. I really loved where everything was set up in the gallery and I wouldn't change a thing, except the horrible blue wall. 

I think its cool how our installation connects with Simon's and brings up the concept of philosophy. I never even thought about the philosophy concept of the two installations, until it was brought up in the artist talks. To me our work can have so many meanings, but for me the project was more about growing as a person and an artist. I'm a quiet person, but for this project I had to go out of my comfort zone to recruit people to participate in the interviewing. 

I would like to thank Martine for giving us the opportunity to work with Simon and dedicating her time to help us with making Collective Perception happen. Thank you Jaroslava and Erika for allowing us to use the gallery space and for making the Skype talk with Simon happen. I would also like to thank Simon for being such an inspiration for Collective Perception, staying up in the middle of the night to talk to us about your work, and for answering all of the questions we had for you.