I'm not going to lie, being a painter who looks to both a melting pot of 1950s post war abstraction and late 80s spraycan related art for inspiration, relational aesthetics wasn't exactly top of my list of things to refer to. But since doing regular blog posts (unlike others, I wish I'd had this opportunity earlier) it led me to retrace my creative steps and revaluate my own practice, something that I was reluctant to do! The classes were slow at times and the readings difficult to take apart, but all in all relational aesthetics have opened my mind to a different art world where art isn't taken so seriously (to a degree), is a refreshing change.

That said, I'll probably continue to paint as I have been but hopefully one day relational aesthetics and this class will have sparked something in my subconcious changing my perspective for the positive. Thanks for throwing a spanner in the works that is Theoretical Enquiry Caleb!