Evaluation of my show

Mangaia taku enua

Mangaia my Island

pronounced Muh-nga-ee-ah

All in all I was pleased with how my works we were presented. Presenting it like it was an image on a wall in a gallery was how I wanted it to look. I know I could've done it other ways by having it on a piece of wood to give it a 3 dimensional look but i wanted people to admire the work as a drawing on its own. to have anything else in the space would raise questions that could only be answered by me with "because it looks pretty". my works were inexpensive compared to the amount of money others in class have spent. I felt like in this class you either had sore hands, or sore wallets. I'm a drawer so my hands hurt after I finally finished them. But i guess that is what it takes to be professional. It was rewarded with all the comments i got. The first one to see all my finished works together on m wall at home was my dad and my brother. My Dad was extremely proud. When i first told him the idea of wanting to draw the images of locations in Mangaia he encouraged me in that fatherly slightly patronizing way, but when he saw them he didn't realize I could pull of somthing like this which was insulting and pleasing at the same time. He knew the places straight away which was a plus. My brother, who is my biggest critic was impressed as well which made me feel awesome. They both helped me put my work up, and tried to make it to other shows on Thursday as well but only got to see Alberts and Jacksons, They were impressed by the wall spaces in our year 2 room, my brother being slightly intimidated by the level of skills oozing through the everyone's work. They wanted to see the rest of the shows but needed to go home and pack for their trip to Wellington. I'm grateful and humbled that they traveled the 2.5 hour drive here leaving at 5am the morning of my show. They were my biggest supporters along with my partner Kim, Debs, Shanaz, Phil and  Kross. I documented my work with the help of these people. I also managed to witness a few members of the public admiring my work was more then repayment for all the hard work that went into this. I didn't know that Rebecca and Francis had marked earlier and my Family felt sad they didn't get to be apart of a proper viewing of my work with my tutors, but it happens. My goal was to evoke memories in Mangaians with my work, and to share my images to the Otara Community, I done both, and I'm happy with the outcome.