It's always nice to get a good review.  I haven't participated in a show for quite some time. 

What sucks is that my name got spelled wrong.  With a name like mine, it constantly gets thrashed, especially by outsourced Indians whenever I have to call when I need tech support.  I used to hate making collect calls because I hate spelling my full name for people.

Oh well.  I was out of town when the show was held so I couldn't respond to the email for approval of the image tags.

Still it's nice to have a stranger compliment you on the strength of your work.  It's good to know that your work speaks for itself, without you having to stand next to it and explain it to someone.  This is a lesson I wish more students would understand.  In general, the better the work, the less you have to verbally justify your decisions. 

The review of us as teachers was slightly less glowing, I suspect from comparison to what hangs in the halls that is clearly student work.  By all rights, there shouldn't be as much of a gulf in quality between student work and professional pieces from instructors.  In actually, the school is maturing so eventually we should be seeing student work that can hang side by side with teacher work, if not surpass it. 

In fact, I forgot who the artist was who initially said it, but if you don't become better than your teacher, you have failed him.  That's how I tried to go through school, and admittedly, it's not easy if happen to have a bad ass teacher, but it's also one of the fastest ways to becoming good.  Once you have a clear goal of what you need to do you can achieve it. 

Here is a link to the full review.

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