Week 7

As from Thursday 19th March I was up to date with multiple tasks I had to complete! 

Paul's class : - Statement for assessment poster

                      - PDF file sent (multiples poster) 

                      - Kiosk PowerPoint (with timing) sent 

David's class: - Essay plan + feedback received 

These productive few weeks have made myself feel really motivated. One of my personal aims is now to continue with developing ideas and creating samples in order to achieve my final piece. I plan on doing this by list making again and reflecting back on my time plan so that I remain up to date.

Reflection... Reminder

The productiveness continues (Blog 6)

Well, this being organised shinanagan is going down a treat!

I've been on the ball again this past week

My integrated project is expanding as we speak!

Where as pathways and contexts - well let's just say I deserve a well earned seat!

Haha I could not resist! I amused myself with this (proberly badly structured) poem for no more than 15 minutes.. I promise!  

Anyhow, I managed to spark up an idea for my final piece for my integrated project. I felt I had to slightly adjust my PLP (again) on the 30th March. The refinement of my concept is very important to me as I learned after achieving my overall grade from the previous brief, it was my concept that let me down. As I was disappointed in this, I really wanted to show clarification and be as specific as I could to hopefully achieve a more successful grade. Also to prevent going off on a tangent, I now always refer back to my PLP to make sure my research/development is relevant. 

I created realistic aims to meet before we broke up for the Easter holidays. This is so that I can concentrate on my 2 main practical briefs and won't have much paper work to deal with.

Week 5

 I feel I have achieve a lot over these past few weeks as I have learnt a lot of new techniques. I have progressed thoroughly in my research and investigation to get to the stage I'm at just now. Organisation has been a main factor in the past, although I have overcome it this week as I have been creating lists and aiming to achieve them by the end of the week - So far they have been successful. I hope to keep this going currently and in the future as I am achieving a lot of productive work in all classes. Some classes I am ahead of schedule, this allows me to spend more on experimenting and creating sample pieces that can be time consuming.

Techniques:

• Applique
• water soluble fabric
• embroidery

One of the new things I learned to do last week was how to create a QR code. A QR code leads the viewer straight to webpage once it has been scanned. This is extremely helpful when it comes to e.g mentioning specific artists in my sketchbook - my tutor can scan the code and almost instantly they can see what I'm referring to. 

I plan on using QR cods throughout my sketchbook and will continue to use these in the future.

Week 4

As I wanted to research using a variety of resources, I went to my local library and college library to source some books on trafficking - none of the library's had any suitable books. To solve the issue, I went to my learning resource centre and asked them to order multiple books in. The week after, I had been notified that there was a book relating to trafficking and it was sent to the college library. When I went to collect it, it was a novel based on a true story. At first I was hesitant to take the book as I didn't  think it would be useful but the more I thought about It I realised that it could be good to pull quotes and use emotional phrases to experiment with. I am quite excited about experimenting with the idea of incorporating subtle words into my final piece.

Integrated project brief..

Looking back on the after math of an earthquake, I decided to firstly focus on the variety of people that get involved. I wanted to find out who and how people help to rebuild and rescue people during the aftermath - this could possibly be a focal point for the final artwork. As my concept mentions the uselessness of man in the pathway of a natural disaster I will need to think of a link.

I feel I keep going around in circles with trying to organise a concept therefor I have decided to research some artists to gain some inspiration. hopefully this will help me to move on with my concept and have a clearer focus.

Week 3

Protest brief..

As my protest is focused on trafficking, I have been continuing to research for the past 2 weeks on all areas. I found out the main types of human trafficking are forced labor, sex trafficking and organ sacrifice. I collected information on all three types of trafficking to develop a clearer understanding of the subject. I soon learned that out of all the various types of trafficking, sexual trafficking is most common. Here are some of the facts I came across during my research:

•        $32 billion: Size of human trafficking industry…some estimate $50 billion.

•        2nd largest and fastest growing crime on earth after drug trafficking

•        Commercial sex trafficking of minors: Fastest growing sex crime

•        600,000 to 800,000: People trafficked each year

•        80% of victims are female

•        50% of victims are children

I want to expand on my research further and find out if there are possible ways to prevent it. Also I am interested in finding out what kind of people help to stop trafficking. I have gave myself a lot of areas to research into but I feel I wouldn't be able to create a piece of artwork representing the theme if I don't have the knowledge and understanding behind it.

Week 2

The research begins...

Throughout the week, I continued to research so that I could narrow down a suitable concept. I began by reflecting back on my mind map and grouped related areas together. Two main areas stood out to me but I decided to go with weather patterns and causes. To gain knowledge on the area, I looked at basic facts and answered initial questions I asked myself. Monitoring tools and meter reading was also something I came across in my research. After having spend a lengthy time researching (or at least it felt like that), I realised that concentrating on weather patterns and causes was an area that I wasn't very interested in.

 

 

 Although this somehow managed to lead me towards the aftermath of an earthquake. How people rebuild community's and life's by working together was something that I felt more passionate about. I plan to go ahead with this idea as I still have plenty time to research.

Block 2 - Week 1

After getting introduced to our new class brief

" Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?"

I Created mind maps with my initial thoughts and ideas. After thinking about my range of possible themes, I then narrowed it down to focus on natural disasters. I feel this topic would interest me the most. After struggling to think of a suitable concept I decided to keep it wide and open to begin with. Through research I plan to expand on my concept. I was interested in natural disasters when studying geography at high school and would like to expand on my knowledge.

    

The brief for Catherine's class is focused on the theme of protest. Straight away I knew my theme would focus on trafficking as I was thinking about concentrating on the subject in a previous brief. Trafficking has always been a topic I have been curious about - ever since I watched a movie relating to it a few years back. This should be interesting...