The doors to each space opened sequentially every nine days, and one needed to visit the gallery four times to experience the complete work. As suggested in the title, the installation paralleled a symphony with physical breaks between each movement. Expectations of what was to come heightened the mystery and mystique of the work. My philosophy of teaching art is based on the premise that ideas create technology, and not the reverse. Too often students learn to work in a specific medium and allow this chosen, sometimes predetermined medium to dominate their thinking.
Boundaries become difficult to expand, and motivations often misunderstood.
When technique is taught as an aid to expression and conceptualization, students will look beyond the obvious. Mediums then become a vocabulary with which to express ideas, and a students attempt to develop a personal expression becomes less obstructed. I encourage students to investigate the many avenues open to them, and to do so with a passion. An instructors ability to instill such a passion is essential. Teaching also requires flexibility.