Starting Where I Left Off.
Project Resolution and Evolution
One challenge that I have been immediately confronted by whilst starting my final major project is where do I begin. The last unit had left me in a very strong position in terms of ideas and I feel very confident in what I am creating but how can I push this forward and make it even better. I had packed a lot of ideas into reflect and research and these had varying degrees of success but one thing that I am keen to address is resolving some of these concepts and projects into something finalised instead of just an extension of an idea. The Machines, the still Life’s, the work with RGB all had their own conations and their own place within my practice. They have become individual projects but they are linked together in tackling our understanding of our contemporary surroundings. Wether that is looking at the light that emanates from the pixel and the screen. The hidden machines and technologies that support our existence. Or the shrill presence of online imagery that allowed me to search for the contemporary counterpart of objects that sat on Matisse or van Gough’s table.
I think I need to work out for myself how I am going to tackle this final project. It feels like all of these projects in someway are supporting one another. The Unit asks for me to create a body of work and at the moment I feel that these projects are the foundations that I can build that body of work upon. I feel that it would be useless for me to commit to on strand of these projects. As I continue to develop, initially on a smaller scale. I would imagine that I will come to a point where my overall practice is refined enough to have the option to chose between a final piece or a collection of work that is resolved enough to support itself. Or even be able to question whether this final major project requires a final piece in the traditional sense.
So where do I begin? One piece of vital feedback I had be given after my submission for reflect and research was that a lot of the work was not finished. For the most part it existed as an idea plus a few images on my blog but other than that it was not tangible to anything in the real world, either physically or online. Creating work that is between the strange separation of online/offline can be difficult but it is up to me to utilise the resources that are available to me.
Giving the work a presence will be important but creating and instilling the ideas into the work is the main objective. I have lots to run off from the last unit, it feels I had only just starting experimenting with certain ideas. I am really excited to see where they will lead me now I have the time to allow these ideas to grow as well as how I incorporate new ideas too