I found myself feeling lost and clueless at the beginning of this brief, but with many a consultation with several tutors I eventually found my way. The main reason for my panic troughout the first couple of weeks was the combined pressure of wanting to show my best work, being too precious with my sketchbooks in the past and the fact that I was meeting new people daily. Looking back, I was getting worked up over nothing and I now see that I wasted a lot of time. Despite this I am finally happy with my body of work. By looking at my own work I see the story of my first brief planned out before me. My initial struggle before the calm. I suppose this would not be obvious to anyone else but this is what I enjoy most about looking back on my work. I see a naive approach to my chosen 'thing' which transforms into a strong body of samples. These best express my ideas.
The first turning point for me was the large scale drawing task, as I have spoken about before. This allowed me to generate new ideas which created more fluidity in my work. I am grateful for this task taking place as I would not have progressed further. It was initially daunting but eventually extremely helpful.
Despite my slow start to the project, and my obvious struggle to connect with the brief, the final four weeks were very enjoyable. The print workshop sessions allowed me to visually explore my theme in ways that I was restricted during the weave workshop sessions, being another huge turning point in terms of production of samples. I created the most work over those workshop sessions, mistakes were made that I was able to overcome, and through those mistakes combined with taught sessions I learnt a large amount of new information.
My weakness overall has been my drawing. Looking back I feel I should have spent some more time drawing and tranferring my thoughts onto paper. Despite this I am thoroughly pleased with my sample work. I found creating samples a more effective way of expressing my thoughts than drawing. This is the main reason for my sample work outweighing my drawing work.
As this was our first brief set I look forward to feedback from my tutor. I am ready to take on board some constructive criticism, to build upon in the next brief!
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