Gremlins, Art Audience and Artists statements!

I have been bogged down by a hundred gremlins (mainly different) whilst learning how to do these blogs!
On some of the computers I couldn't get pictures to load, on others an 'error on page' sign very persistently popped up as I tried to edit or add to posts day after day.  I haven't been able to resize some of my photo's and others disappeared.  There was also a very strange session where all of the drop down editing menu was spread out in a kind of code-which I could actually work out how to use!  The other day disaster, no save button was there and I wiped everything off the entry by mistake.....I really am learning to learn!

 We did not have to present our response to the newspaper article in L2L today so I've (hopefully) put a video of it on the page.  We had an interesting talk about newspapers.  We need to put together (write) an artists statement to do with the piece.  I am thinking about this at the moment..what do I want to say? how long will it be?
We were then discussing our audience...who 'they' are, how they will be viewing the art.  This is quite an open ended subject I think as we could imagine new ways to reach this audience maybe as creatively as the artwork itself?

I've written my artists statement; but am feeling a bit ambivalent about it for a few reasons.  Part of me is thinking really the artwork should stand on it's own merit, sometimes artists statements come across as pretentious.  Also generally the ones I've read would be about a body of work (that the artist has been studying and producing for a while) this is just after the one piece.  I have decided to write it as if I have done a load of pieces on the particular subject and I suppose what I imagine I would have achieved....I think I will not put it on the blog....ahh, chicken!  (I may change my mind depending on how the next class goes).