Interview With Kathryn Mecca

Kathryn and I started our interview as a conversation at first. Right away we talked about one of the topic that was brought up in class about how important a critic is to a Artist or a Designer, i started off saying :



CE: I don't really like the idea critic not because is not helpful but the fact that i cant BS enough to make the profession buy my concept. I always had a friend who help me talk about my idea.

KC: I don't know i kind of find critics very helpful maybe is different from a designer but as a painter i find it very important and helpful. By putting your project online on facebook and having people comment on it is a critic it self.

CE: Is not like i dont like the idea of critic is just the way in design sometime people just tear your work apart by there words.

KC: i Understand by getting feedbacks from comments on face but you can take there comments more lightly unlike the class critics. Maybe is tougher in class critics because the proffessor be part of the critic.

CE: yea it kinda makes it difficult because if someone mention an idea you dont like or points out a minor error and you somehow forget to incoperate that on your finale you get points taken off .
at the end of the day is all about the grades no matter how good your work is if you dont pass is meaningless.

KC: I disagree I dont really care about the grades i am more focus on the work because that what am going to holding at my hand at the end of the day.

CE: ususall when i do a project i do it according to a guildline like am doing work for a real company or project, as a painter do you do work for yourself or to satify your audience?

KC: As a painter i paint for myself and hopefully try to sell to someone or any one that can ideatify themself to my work. so its completely different from a designer.

CE: How do you feel when people find a different meaning to your work?

KC: not really is just people always will find other meaning to your work that is relevent to there life and is nice and cool that my work could provoke a different idea completely different from what i was trying to project i LOVE that. I interesting to see what other people have to see and is not like its taking away from the meaning your trying to protreat.

at this time Kath started to show me some of her work she focus her work on mainly portrait and in this portraits she try to campture emotions.

CE: tell me about your work?

KC: My work is pretty me trying to portrait someone seating infront of me and its challenging trying o get them to lok like them so is kinda of an excersise rather then a thought out planed painting.

CE: you only work with life models?

KC: Most of them are life models. On this one ( she is showing me a painting) i try to capture the emotion of my friend (her friend modeled for her) his a writter his alwasy wrapped up in his own thoughts, his kinda of a tragic character very depressing so thats what i was trying to capture.

CE: what medium do you use

KC: oil paint, (shows me another painting of her little brother) this is a painting of my lil brother his like an old man in a lil kid bodies makes him look very pensive. thats what am trying to portrait in this one.

She then gose on to explain her new project. Her new experiment with losser brush strokes and some abstract work and she realize she going to stick with people. She also tryed sculpture over the summer, she love working with here hand she its more easier than painting because how fast she can work with it. still trying to figire what shes going to do for a thesis. And also she only paint her work once because she only belive painting for the moment because " you can't always feel thesame way twice"