My first thoughts on Spike Island gallery were that I didn't find it very visually inspiring. Although many of the galleries were good, I found Spike Island too out there and didn't quite understand all the pieces. In my opinion it felt like I would need something like a paragraph explaining each piece for me to have understood it properly, it was a bit annoying having nothing to go by but once I had discussed pieces with others I started to understand them more.
One of the pieces that interested me a lot was the one with fluorescent lights and water bottles
I found these interesting as you get completely lost in it even though its simply some lights and a sheet of something reflective. I found it quite inspirational how the lights can represent infinity. I wasn't too sure about what the water bottles were there to represent but I just found it weirdly hypnotic how the light working with the reflective sheet changes light and how you see things.
Although that was the only thing I found particularly interesting in the exhibition, I would like to see if I can look at pieces of work like this differently and ask myself different questions instead of trying to just find the meaning behind something and hopefully understand contemporary art better.
