Peoples Review
My solo show of paintings at the Enterprise Library branch of the Clark County Public Library ended the week before last. The exhibit was un-hung the following Monday, and I retrieved my art pieces at that time. Upon vacating the gallery, the visitor log book for my show was presented to me for my use as documentation. I will have many more comments on the experience, as a whole, in the future. But, for now, I feel the need to preserve these handwritten comments as digital text for study.
It does not look to be an easy assignment which I have taken-on. As I read the comments aloud, and dictate them to digital text by speech recognition app, I am gratified by the candor of the comment writers. While many of the written comments are illegible, those that are legible have a unique, visual character—not conveyed by verbal sense, alone—and, therefore, I must disclose here-and-now that I am making arbitrary interpretations on the fly (set-off by parentheses) for readability.
Otherwise, I can't think of a single example of this type of document for use as precedent. Critical reviews are quoted in publications all of the time. It is assumed the reviewers are well-known, and respected, by most readers. The “reviewers” quoted by myself are mostly children posing as pundits. Alas, as I am neither a stenographer—nor a poet—I can only assert an awareness of the poetics of print. All I can add at this time is that preserving the integrity of the viewers' intended opinions is uppermost in my mind.
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March 27 Anthony R absolutely brilliant work love the idea and your artists sketches
March 27 Paul S awesome
Antoinette this is very depressing it's living emo
March 28 very good and beautiful work love it Mr z
March 30 (illegible name) wow touching
strong - meaningful
loved your art and your message thank you
April 1 thank you for creating such powerful pieces homelessness can affect literally any one of us at any time and homeless people just like everyone else are still people and deserve to be treated with dignity respect and empathy (heart emoticon)
there but for the grace of God much more needs to be done for the homeless they are God's children pray reach out change for them
gripping works poignant the textures hues and special tension work well very effective at conveying that sense of desperation and hopelessness one endures as a unfortunate homeless soul (name illegible)
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April 1 (name illegible) hmm thought-provoking
Anthony inconsiderate and thoughtless
(name illegible) wow
April 2 Danielle Fischer omg (illegible emoticon) no way
(name illegible) Torres Martinez Romero this art makes me feel what the people in the painting are feeling
Laura Hernandez it touch my heart thank you
April 3 Luke Mangan beautiful, moved me
great idea
I love it
April 4 Serena
I like the colors
powerful thank you these paintings remind me of the “beautiful” North Las Vegas they should get a job LOL
April 5 Peg Pandzik mean sad tough times this isn't a plan Brian you could research what cities have done around the world to solve this you could bring proposals to the city government and the voters this is emotional loan you can read how people will ignore it thought out action is what it will take you're a talented artist but this is lying to yourself work the problem and develop a solution so it actually gives the worst off the help they need
Angel these artworks are very interesting to look at keep up the amazing work
(work-in-progress)