DedHampster

Yep, the girl in the video did go off the deep end. I have to admit that I had one critique in college that stung so hard that I had to bite my lip to keep from crying in front of everyone.

I see myself as more of a crafter than a fine artist. In ceramics class I made a lot of actually useful items like dinnerware and food grade dishes rather than sculptures. Well, one day I had made a communal bowl in the shape of a large bird's nest with little birds around the edge to rest one's chopsticks on. (In college my friends and I used to stir fry and curry a lot of foods and pick it out of the pan with chopsticks to save dishes while sharing a meal.) During the critique portion of the project I received a scathing review from my peers because they viewed my work as too domestic. Even after showing what I thought was a cleaver way of using sculpture as an everyday item and incorporating nature in the form like traditional Asian dishware they still came down hard. It seemed that all they wanted was avant-garde or surreal pieces. He professor still gave me one of the highest grades in the class, but it still hurt like hell to have one's peers be so critical.