Overview of class critique of "Come Play with Me" (images on previous posts)

Response, overview, and thoughts about class crit of my series "Come Play with Me" (Miniatures)

So I think I can say crit didnt go really well...but at the same time I say that, I feel I'm being hard headed because
it wasn't necessarily a "bad" crit...it was just a crit where people didnt just like what I'm doing. Instead, I felt alot of oposition and suggestions of changes. At the same time I know that misunderstanding or not undertanding can be misstaken as opposition. Sometimes people just dont know what to say, and when you present work that is not finished yet, people dont really know what to say, and the UNFINISHED aspect of the project leaves a loooooot of room for other people to implement their ideas. Naturally, I suppose.

So what was said?
That the toys didnt look played with enough.
That they looked just taken out of a box.
That they dont look like they are something that little kids would play with.
What else...
That they looked out of place

Which is funny because now that I'm looking at what was said, I have an answer for each of the claims that
makes perfect sense to me...
"That the toys didnt look played with enought" - I personally was a very neat kid now that I remember. My playtime
was impecable, my Barbie dolls were always dressed, and everything was in place pretty much. I think that comment
came from personal experience of my class mates...I'm guessing they were messy kids.
"That they looked just taken out of a box" - That one I can almost agree, but dont see the problem. The furniture I used
were ones I had from 7 years ago, so they came from a box once yes. I'm thinking that if I had used antique doll house furniture, i wouldnt have had a problem.
"That they dont look like they are something that kids play with" - That statement was just purely made from someone's personal experience and not all kids are the same! I was FASCINATED with beautiful miniature furniture when I was 7, so I shouldnt take this statement as the complete truth
"That they looked out of place" - THAT WAS THE POINT. Really. The point, besides other points, was to catch the viewer off guard and make them say - "wait a minute, is that a chair besides a leaf??? what the heck??? or - aw thats adorable! " or whatever else they say out of amuzement

Part of the reason I feel my crit went the way it did is because I wasnt ready to explain it the best and truest way possible simply because this project is in its beginning phases. It really is in its baby stage...more like the gestation phase...fetus stage? yea sure anyways!

...I dont know it's like - after my first individual meeting with another professor, i felt my original intent shifting and I want to say it's because of what I talked about with her. I'm too much of a sponge! She mentioned several things and it deviated me from what i was thinking about at first....

which is kind of why I want to put this project away a little bit
to let my original intent with the Miniatures project come back to me.