Blog 8
My personal project update:
As I've now got to the end of this semester, I am reviewing my project so far. I don't as much to do for this module yet, as I'm part-time, I don't have to submit this work before May when the Portfolio is due. This time over the winter is all about experimenting, testing new ideas, testing new materials and trying to establish a theme and direction. A theme which is interesting, that I can maintain over another year and a half and something that inspires me. It needs to have a personal interest for me, otherwise I won't enjoy it, and I don't think the work would be as good quality.
I have been more focused on the other modules that are due in January, so I haven't done as much portfolio work as I would have wanted. I do now have a relatively clear idea about what I want to do with my work, and I've narrowed down on the visual side of how I want to represent running. I think that the pieces that I have made on larger supports and paper sheets, they work better and that's something I need to do more of. I could work with scale and maybe even three dimensionality in my work, I need to consider how could I expand this and make it something more than just drawings. I do accept my work so far reflects on the fact that haven't got into the flow as much as I would have wanted with my work so far, this has been in part due to not having a defined direction at the start and swimming around with ideas about running and not feeling totally inspired. I am inspired by the subject, it’s just finding that that niche, that thing that I'm like yes, that's what I want to do.
It has been a good challenge in the sense that I don't know what I'm doing, as in previous projects, I've perhaps limited myself because I've decided that this is what I want to do and this is how I will do it early on. Whereas now, I am letting go and allowing myself to feel more uncertain, which is where a lot of good artists say their best ideas come from. The feeling of oh my god I don't know where I'm going, but then it ends up somewhere even better, because of how lost you got partway through the journey.