And would ask you things like, “Say you’re gonna win this one!” And that was never really something I would feel super confident to say.Ī post shared by Alexander Rosenberg was a collective interest in having us perform well. Well, I mean, you can see little things - a lot of that is done through editing, they’ll tend to try to create a little bit of drama or conflict on the screen.
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The crew was really nice.Įveryone seemed to be rooting for each other - did you feel that vibe on set? There was no classic reality TV villain trope. And I’m always like, “Oh, I lost my this.” And there’s someone there whose job it is to find it for you, which is crazy! I’d be like, “I’m looking for my sunglasses.” And then there would be somebody who would turn up with them in their hand and, “These? Right here?” So that was kind of fun. I am really absentminded, especially when I’m the studio trying to work on projects. And they were great about facilitating all of that. I want to exercise and eat and go home and sleep and get up and do it again. We didn’t share a house with limited resources, there were no wild dance parties to keep you up at night… I’m pretty monastic when I’m working in that way. I was there for about six weeks, maybe a little less than that. I was surprised as anybody when I finally lost. I started seeing I was able to produce the things I wanted to produce, and that there was a positive reception, I definitely got a little bit of a confidence boost. So, once I got there, I started to feel comfortable. In something like this, in this populist spectacle, it would be hard to know what to expect: What the metric of quality be? Who was going to determine it? I was, again, pleasantly surprised to find that the person that they had - and a lot of the guests that they brought in - had a great, sophisticated understanding of the process and the material. So, I kind of disagree with that - there are many measurable factors of succeeding in a project. I made a not-very-good living out of teaching art at a college level. People talk about art as being subjective. There had already been a little bit of pre-emptive critique from the glass world: How is this going to accurately or appropriately represent our community? But I think that the way I do glass is something that would be good to represent.ĭid you have any idea how far you’d make it into the competition?
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I thought, were they going to put me in a house full of drunken ?īut you know, I was also curious about it. Honestly, the prospect of being on something characterized as “reality television” was pretty nerve-racking to me. I was looking for a way to pay the bills, and I saw a call for this thing.
I had a full-time university teaching position in Philadelphia, which I had quit the previous year. Well, honestly - the situation arose from a place of desperation lack of opportunity at the moment. I ended up going back to art school later on at Rhode Island School of Design.
In an uncharacteristic way, I ended up enrolling in courses at the community college where he was, starting to play around with the stuff. I had never thought about it, or heard of it before. And something about that was exciting to me: This material that seems so out of reach to be manipulated by a person could be manipulated by hand. There was nothing special about them, except I knew he had made them. I ended up in Southern California after high school - I actually didn’t finish high school at that time as I said, I had some trouble with some of the normal stuff - and I lived with somebody who was coming home with little blobby glass objects. Like most people who have a public school education, I didn’t have a super full picture of what being an artist could be I imagined it would be a painter or a sculptor carving bodies out of marble. Maybe strategically, or maybe just kind of naturally, I failed at a lot of other more conventional activities.
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