Dick Blau Artist Talk - Response

Dick Blau's talk was interesting. Hearing an artists background always makes me appreciate their work more. My favorite video of his is Up on the Block One Sunday. It seems so real, genuine. He was really interested in these people, and spent time getting to know them.

Later Molly and I were talking and both agreed that most of his films are to long. They start to loose their potency because it seems like he gets his point across and then continues for another few unnecessary minutes. As an outsider to the project it is easy to see this, but the artist always has a hard time paring down. This is clearly an issue for him since he is paying someone to curate a book of his images. 

My least favorite video was Polish Easter in Chicago. This just seemed like a slide show. There were some really strong images in the series that standing as a set would have been much more powerful than the video.