Since the beginning of the course I’ve struggled with the way things work around here. There are things that confuses me or contradicts my normal way of work.
The juxtaposition between the openness of how you do work ( that can be research, this can be research, it’s okay to not have reasons, we’re artists that’s what we do, do whatever you want, respect you practice and etc. ) and what’s required of us ( writing an academic paper with correct Harvard referencing and impressive reflective writing as a proof of our research and as a statement that we’re critical thinkers now ) doesn’t sit right with me yet.
I don’t have the ability to research and create work at the same time and you can argue that “…creating work is also research” but my brain would disagree. To make it simpler here’s a diagram of how I usually work :
And to be fair 80% of my process in real life is
- interpret the brief
- execute
That’s it. After working as an illustrator for almost 5 years, this works.
Now that I’m struggling with a new kind of research, one that’s required if I want to be an MA student, I decides to cope with my overflow of ideas and impatience ( when given too much time to do work ) and try to do this instead :
I hate it but it should be useful.
td @ ual 