This past semester has proved difficult for me to get my bearings on exactly what it is that I want to make. Having the dissertation module running alongside my practical work had its positives in that I did a lot of research and found out a lot about the field that I am working in. However this also meant that I didn’t have my full attention on what I was making, and so to not be too bogged down in anything too complicated or labour-intensive I stuck with small-scale experiments in different media in the hope that I would get inspired by the media outcomes to produce more developed work at a later stage. Although my experiments have proved reasonably successful with potential for further development I am still yet to grasp the purpose behind this work. I am lacking an anchor that ties all of the work together, and without this I fear that my work isn’t fully rounded. Despite the amount of time I have had to reflect on my work and move on I am still struggling to identify what it is exactly that I want to make the work about. I have been looking into the work of other artists and practitioners and I am often inspired by the forms and materials that are used, but the contexts of these pieces have little interest for me when it comes to the making of my own work. When displaying my work for assessment in my studio, I used the space to display a series of my most recent print experiments; showing the stages of my thought process over time rather than a selection of finished works; as these do not yet exist. I also used the space as an opportunity to try to display my cut mount board pieces that I used for blind embossing. I like these pieces as objects in themselves, and I have hung them away from the wall using small pins; they are suspended but not flat against the wall. This allows for the light to work against the shape and cast shadows around it. I am still unsure what it is that I want from this body of work, I am hoping that further investigation into past ventures will help to identify a path to follow.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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