Nicole Hughes: Collective Perception Reflection 

Great job everyone! It was really fun collaborating with all of you to create this interesting concept. Before the semester started I would have never expected to create a gallery exhibit so quickly. It was very exciting collaborating with many creative minds to develop “Collective Perception.” Simon Hogsberg’s photography was a great inspiration that gave us the idea to generate a piece that was parallel to his work.

I think it was very helpful when the class was separated into three different groups in order to generate our own ideas within these groups. Hearing different ideas as well as concepts made it easier to come together as a team and choose what the collaborated idea would be. In my opinion the artist talk went very well. It was great having an artists talk via video chat, that is one thing that I would have never expected to experience.

I enjoyed hearing Simon's responses to the questions that we asked him. The class had great questions that they had asked and did a great job on introducing our concept to Simon.

I found it comforting that he goes out of his comfort zone to capture interesting photographs without knowing how people will respond. I can relate to this because I was a little nervous at first confronting strangers and asking them if they would like to answer a couple questions for a project.

It was difficult not knowing how people would respond to the situation. The group that I was in only had one person come back to us and tell us that she/he was not comfortable being a part of our project. Respecting her request to not be a part of our project we deleted her information. I thought it would be difficult to be ready in time for the opening day because there was a lot to do in such little time. In this type of situation working as a team and splitting up each task to certain groups made it a possibility.

As far as our exhibit, the only thing that comes to mind that would make the piece stronger is if we had more images to display. Maybe enlarge the photos, or even go out of town and ask people the same questions. It could be very interesting to find out and compare the response to the ones that we recorded from the people in town.