Part 4

Feedback:

I’m active and involved in my creative practice.

A curatorial step is needed to put some order on all the activity.  

Right now, I’m engaged with drawing intuitively, creating sketches daily to keep connected, reading and researching on projects, but I’m not engaged fully with a coherent expression of the process and articulating stages in the process.

I’ve talked about this with my tutor.  

Year 2 was all about clearly set exercises, research points and assignments.  The parameters were very clear.  As a result, setting out a clear process on how I got to the final submission was a little more linear.

Year 3 is not this.  It is a set of Projects that I have set out for myself to complete.  They are varied and push me out of my comfort zone.  They all require a set of parameters around them to ‘contain’ them, but I also didn’t want to do that.

One thing that felt important for Year 3 was to engage with intuition more.  It feels like that is taking place, but in the process, it also feels like the act of articulating thoughts around it is being lost.  

My tutor quoted Henri Bergson, as a way to offer support, as Bergson offers intuition as a method of thought that bypasses the brain:

“There are things that intelligence alone is able to seek, but which, by itself, it will never find.  These things instinct alone could find; but it will never seek them” (Bergson 1911)

It feels accurate for me right now.

I don’t want to force words that don’t ‘feel’ correct.  

So that has led to now – and this site – which is being constructed as a way to put down thoughts, in an ordered manner – to appease structure and curation.  

I’m becoming comfortable with my practice, with being an artist, with having a statement, with expressing and trusting the process.  I can put the scaffolding there if I want to, it can be personal or not.  It is about leaning into authentic practice.

Reflections:

Learning Outcomes act as a focus.  The main outcomes are:

  1. examine your emerging practice through a considered body of self-directed work.
  2. apply relevant research methods and subject knowledge to test, inform and develop your work.
  3. present informed connections between your research and practice interests.
  4. articulate your creative ideas and critical thinking using suitable communication methods.

I feel at this stage that I am dipping into each one slightly but that the LO3 and LO4 are challenging for right now.  

Feedback 5 requires a presentation of 6 mins showing what I’ve done and how I’m moving towards the LO above.  I also have a critical essay to do.

From Feedback 4, I feel that a reset it required in order to get clearer on :

a) what is the purpose of it

b) how am I communicating my work effectively to others.

 

Reset:

  1. reframe the way I am curating my self-directed work.
  2. articulate what research methods I’m using.
  3. articulate how am I using it to test, inform and develop my workit in a way that is clearer.
  4. demonstrate the connections between the research and pratice.
  5. use suitable methods of communication such as this blog, videos and imagery.