Success!

First, thank you to everyone who participated in my survey for my installation. My midterm critique went really really well and there were even a few people who said this piece was my best ever. I guess it really does work when you look inside yourself and make a piece that comes from you. As I had said previously, this is not something that I tend to do, but am trying to do that this year. This all stemmed from my professors looking for a deeper meaning in my work and I think wanting to see a little bit more of "me" in my work.
Honesty always works. How can you criticize someone's work when they are being honest and putting it all out there? You may not like it, that's your opinion, but I don't care if people like my art or not. Do they find it interesting? Do they want to look at it? Do they question it? Do they hate it? Do they love it? If there is a yes to at least one of these, then I am satisfied.
I have some pictures of my installation, courtesy of a fellow classmate NooNa Shuqair. It is really hard to tell what is going on, but I ended up having 2 videos- one of myself looking at the computer screen and one of the secrets scrolling. I had the videos facing each other on 2 walls going through glass, this caused a lot of reflections. The secrets reflected on my face and my face reflected on the secrets. To me the glass represented literally and figuratively, the barrier that is between me and the information I am getting. We do have access to a lot of information about other people from various social networking sites, but there is a barrier between us and the people. The computer is like a window into the lives of others, you can see through it, but cannot get in. This is what the glass represents. This "barrier" is transparent, we can see through it and see so clearly. The area you go in to view the installation is on the inside of the glass, where the video of my face is. The sound of my voice whispering, "just tell me, I won't tell anyone" and typing on a computer can be heard in the space. This area represents me, you are looking through the glass at the video of the secrets as I would see them (kind of like you are in my head).

*The location was the best it could be for having to show this in our studio space. The cords, computers, and projectors would ideally be hidden and the space would be completely dark (which was not possible bc of the windows).