I’ve just had an insight into my art. I’m usually concerned with what I want to express and not with how I’m expressing it. However I sometimes think that the biggest mistake some teachers make is to be too focussed on what they’re trying to teach and not enough on how they’re delivering it, with the result that their students don’t understand them. I’m clearly making the same mistake with art.
Of course to create works that have nothing to say except for eyecandy is a bit like eating at McDonalds. I guess my best teaching happens when I’m teaching something that I enjoy myself and that I think is valuable for students to learn. Maybe I need to work out what I do want to communicate with art, and then work out how to do it to the best of my ability.