My main areas of strength include visual communication, coming up with and developing ideas. I think that I am quite good at communicating what I want to say or do through visual techniques, for example mark making, continuous line or quick drawings, collage and photography. I think that experimenting with different medias helps you to find the best way of displaying your thoughts and ideas. I think that coming up with interesting ideas is a strength of mine, I think it’s good to get ideas from your surroundings and things happening around you. I also find it really useful to write all my ideas down as this often helps to you to link things together and naturally develop your work. Another thing I think helps you to come up with and further develop ideas is talking to people as then you get another perspective.
Some areas I have realised I need to develop are research, refining my work and going into more detail about how and why I have done something. During the diagnostic stage I learnt a lot about different ways to research which don’t involve just searching on google, for example using the library and resource library and visiting galleries such as the tate modern visit, which is classed as first hand research. Most constructive resource I have begun to use has been my blog, which has allowed me to reflect on my work from day to day, being online in the public domain allows my friends to have easy access to give me further critic on my work, which has been the best tool for me and my work over the last month in the diagnostic stage. I have also learnt that your sketchbook does not always have to be a neat and refined means of presenting my work but is more useful way to just document all of your ideas and research no matter how rough it is.
During the developmental stage primarily I hope to experiment with different materials and techniques, trying new things as well as tcontinuing with things I already enjoy doing. I really want to use this time to try things and decide what I want to focus on. I would like to mainly focus on fine art, for example sculpture and conceptual pieces. I find conceptual art interesting as everyone understands it from there own perspective but they can also find out about the artists personal meanings behind the work. I would like to make work which is somehow interactive or an installation piece as I think these are ways of making your work exciting and engaging for your audience which I think is very important for art to be. Another thing I am interested in doing is theatre design, I would like to experiment with making sets and costumes. I have always been interested in and quite often involved in performing arts, I like the idea of working from a narrative or story and figuring out ways of showing that on a stage.
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