In this module I feel that my practical response is one of the strongest pieces of work I have created so far.
I found that working ahead of the deadline took a lot of the pressure off, completing Responsive a week in advance to allow me more time to develop and finish COP. I wanted to explore introversion in my essay and practical as a precursor to the subject of my dissertation, my initial idea of which is to focus on mental health and possibly art therapy.
My essay provided me a platform to justify my ideas on how as an introvert, I can operate within an industry that requires a lot of networking, through this I realised the importance of my own online presence and digital portfolio, as it will allow me to network without really ‘networking’ in the traditional sense. I think that throughout writing my essay I gained a fuller understanding of the introvert/extrovert spectrum, which helped me gain a better understanding of my own practice and to an extent personality. Although that makes me sound quite soul searching, it is what it is.
During the practical side of my work I decided early on that the Risograph printing process would drive the way my work developed. Although in the end the costing and turnaround made it impossible, I stuck to developing the work in this way because I thought it worked successfully. In the future I would like to send them off to the Riso printers as I think my practical response was really strong. I struggled to properly depict introversion in the beginning, focusing figuratively on melancholy looking women, it didn’t get my concept across and there wasn’t any kind of conflict. I found they could be easily misconstrued. I decided to focus on the feeling, and intangible rather than what an introvert might or might not look like.
I believe the successes of this module to be my final printed product, I feel really proud of the formatting. I developed my knowledge of InDesign and realised it wasn’t as terrifying as I had once imagined. I found that through my own knowledge of introversion, social anxieties and being a creative, I found I was more interested in writing and painting about it because it came from something I knew a lot about. I think the writing I decided to accompany my images with was strong because of the same reason, they were poems I wrote at a time where I felt particularly insular and strange for being so.
The biggest weakness within my essay was being able to link things properly; I knew what I needed to say and why I was saying them, but found it hard to reinforce why I was doing so. I also was accused of not focusing on extroverts enough in my essay, though this was said to me by an extrovert, to which my response was “It’s not all about you”. Though upon that I went back and elaborated a bit more on that area.
I found it hard to find academic source material on visual creative introverts, as it’s not something that’s well documented, I think they’re generally hiding in their studios. I found it easier to research Virginia Woolf, a well-known introvert in the field of literature. Eventually my practical work involved some introvert poetry so in a cyclical kind of way I ended up linking that to my essay, if somewhat accidental.
Thinking forward to my extended practice and dissertation I will:
- Reserve money and time for printing, I want to produce what I intend to produce, rather than proposing something I might.
- Read and highlight physical books, I lost some quotes by losing page numbers.
- This is from my previous years evaluation but I feel it still to be relevant:
- Not just make notes from the chronologies, actually try to respond to them too, maybe look at photographers or counter what the lecture was on. This will stop me from just taking influence from illustrators.
- Be more exhaustive with figurative drawing, I’m still unsure if avoiding drawing people was a cop out, even if I still went down the same route I should have tried to develop my figures more regardless.
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