final blogpost 603

stolen museum

i found this brief quite hard to get stuck into, but decided it might be good to start off with a small research book gathering information and ideas about my chosen object as i knew very little about it to begin with.

i'm happier with the research book than the final outcome - i enjoyed the research process and putting that little book together a lot more than working on the final outcome.found a nice poem about soldiers through that. i always find that my intentions always get lost in translation when i try to make something final - especially when it's a singular image I always feel like i work better in sequence. 

however, the research book as a preliminary part of a project is potentially something i will take forward to future projects - it was really helpful and enjoyable and i see it as an outcome in an of itself and much more successful than the final print; it's okay but it's very flat and a bit boring.

risograph positives embedded in google slides - actual prints at uni (didn't bring them home prior quarantine!) but they weren't very successful anyway.

"summer grasses, all that remains of soldiers dreams"

editorial
decided to sit out of this one, i don't feel like i'm at a point where i can make work in response to an article i'm not enthused about - have really been struggling with my practice recently and figuring out what i want to make work about and what processes to use to make it fresh and new for me.
tried to draw for the emoji article and it wasn't fruitful at all.

6 memos
have been thinking about my personal practice and i seem to be responding better to research based briefs - i think that because my chosen topics tend to be quite personal and existential it leaves me not knowing what exactly to make work about so i think it might be beneficial for me to remove the personal and learn how to be an image maker again.

i want to move onto to something that allows me to research and learn and make responses accordingly. i need to exercise in drawing again - and draw from things and videos and documentaries and become exhaustive in doing so which is something i've lost along the way of this degree.

i feel very out of the loop with my practice at the minute and with illustration at large so I'm hoping that picking something for final major project that is research extensive and outside of myself and my feelings will be a good thing to take forward.