This is the question, what is the work? it means something to me but how can you say without saying? Even I am unsure what or why it really is, where does it come from and what do I want it to do. I don't know. It is quite frustrating.
Is it this or that, even with a defined personal intent, the focus of postmodern is to let go of control of the work and to allow the viewer to create there own narrative reducing the true personal intent to the bare bones or even ash. I just need to see the body and learn how to boil it down. But I do need to remember that it is still early days, I am here to fail. My small successes will come there failures.
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Yesterday had a google hangout [Accessed 22/01/18] which was organized by Allan O'neill and chaired by OCA tutor Clive White. For students to get together, discuss photography and seek feedback.
It was both interesting and useful. But I am still finding it difficult to openly talk about what I do and why. I am finding it quite difficult to openly talk and engage about others work and discuss photographic topics. It's easy to type away on a keyboard but it is so difficult to talk. I can talk all day and everyday about my thoughts and ideas with Sam (my wife) but beyond I feel completely out of my depth. It seems that many other students read and read, research and research this is shown within there learning logs it packed with all this knowledge something that I feel I maybe short on. I have never been one for reading or talking in large numbers. I just need to keep picking away at it and I am sure it will get easier. So I did try to colour code the annotation of the tutor feedback but it was not very kind of the eyes, but it was worth a try.
I have being playing with ideas for "Unseen" and it has struck me that maybe I am a little to quick to decide what and where things should be and go. This is a little closed in approach, my thinking and thoughts wide and broad. Maybe start with a fixed idea but continue to experiment and do different things and see if any other work emerges. So the first assignment feedback is back. It is positive and I feel quite happy, this is something I need to work on. It is a good base to start from to this unit. I have started to digest the feedback and have decided that traffic light notation system could help me move forward the feedback I receive. Also it will help validate areas of strength and weakness I have identified pre feedback. If I can spot some issues before the tutor I am on a positive track. Just a case of letting it all sink in and start to write up a reflection.
I have decided to change this the heading from blog to journal, mainly because I there is no audience just me, nobody is really interested in what I think or feel nor what I do. It may not be important to others but this is my own personal journey. In my head a blog is aimed at an audience and it is tailored to that audience but a journal is deep and personal, the reason why I started this degree pathway even in uncertainly was not for a piece of paper, not for the OCA but for me, why? I am not sure but it is for me and me alone.
If anyone reads this journal start to finish, thank you and I hope it helped in some kind of way. It helped me I am just unsure at this time how. Idea formation is starting for the assignment not sure where this will go if anywhere. The trigger of the idea was an image that OCA tutor Clive White post on the OCA forum. Clive White gave me permission to use this image OCA Thread [accessed 08/01/2018] The thing that struck me was what looked like a ghost, seemed to be looking at the work on the walls. The Sculpture was created by Don Brown and is called "Yoko XVII" is it a sculpture of his wife draped by a white shroud. I though about the second assignment and using props - a white handkerchief, grief and the possibility of using it has a white shroud (a ghost). How I could present I didn't know. I decided to begin to sculpt a ghost of my own to use has a form for a handkerchief to be placed on. I have been unsure where this could go if anywhere. Until today, it occurred to me that I am currently working on the theme of death but more importantly Postcards. This could work has a continuation from Two Sides. The postcard in Two Sides you only ever seen the true side of the postcard - The backside. It is a message to my dead mum what about the other side the "Unseen" side, the receiver and the front of the postcard? Could that work? So I did a test image Not sure if it does work but I will see where it goes.
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