Thursday 11th December

Today, my group tutorial session gave me a lot to think about. I had planned, on my timetable, to take the opportunity to visit the strangers hall museum in Norwich, but dues to major train journeys, by the time I got into uni it was time for my tutorial.

I had spent the last week planning what I want to achieve in this project, but it seemed like everyone else had had a break! Having said that, I must not compare myself to anyone else, I am completing this degree for my own good, not for anyone else!! The tutorials were based around what we plan to do to take our work through to Ba8. I was glad of this, as it had been exactly what I had been working on, but when it came round to my turn to explain my thoughts on last project and how I intend to move on,  presented in yesterday's blog post, the tutor was shocked that I wanted to tone down the experimental netting I was creating.

She said that it takes real guts to choose to focus on something different, and that although my idea for focusing more on context sounded good, a more experimental project based on what I was beginning to create would be more interesting. Not only this, focusing on the context meant taking a step back, not showing as much development of ideas as continuing. 

She suggested that that the reason I was struggling last project to move everything on was that I was lacking the research  and innovation. Visual research will help me think on new and exciting ideas for development and will change my frame of mind. She said that nearly everything I will end up creating will be horrible and disgusting, but there will be those samples that really shine out and they will be the ones you develop further and further and further until they start looking like and finished idea.

 I think again comes down to research and planning, but also doing. I need to really get down to business and enjoy the knotted processes. The work I create in the first stages, the more in-depth my experimentation will be and the more work I will have to chose from when it comes to moving it on. Say for example if only ever one sample out of twenty was any good, if I did 100 opposed to 40 I would three more good samples to develop further, rather than having to develop work that doesn't work.

I need to complete some research over the next couple of days, and sort out a new and improved project plan based on this new set outcomes.