Claire Hoch visited Sweet Briar on Wednesday, February 24, 2010 and introduced herself as a new and inventive artist who tends to work on many small projects at a time. She is currently spending her freshly graduated phase just across the way at the VCCA to figure out exactly where she wants to go next with her work. Claire introduced many art projects that I had not heard of before and therefore I was a little hesitant about them at first. However, there were a few that were somewhat ground-breaking and successful. I particularly enjoyed the dining services that she and some friends prepared out of a trailer. I definitely think that something like this should be repeated again. A lot of her other ideas just seem to randomly come about, and I know that not all things have to string together, but it was a little tricky to understand where all of her ideas sparked from.
I certainly think that her artistic senses must be going all day long. I believe that she can take the smallest things and turn them into much larger developments, which is pretty significant. For example, her most recent “project” is about rocks and pebbles. This process insists that she be aware of the rocks that her shoes collect throughout the day and where they come from. I definitely do not take the time to notice what soil and stones I step on.. maybe others do.. this I am not sure..
Claire, in my opinion, seems to be going in multiple directions at once. This is probably the most beneficial way because an artist should do everything to get out there in as many different ways as possible.
