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INTRO TO FOUNDATION WORKSHOPS See Surrender Salvation Photoshop Workshop - Mira Schendel - Did not enjoy - Laborious Working with text quite boring. Not inspired by the letters .Prefer the handwritten look Collage Workshop - Dada movement - Cecil Touchon - Francis Picabia My experiments feel gaudy and punk, which is not my aesthetic at all. I think with collage there is an element of irremovable abrasiveness which I really don't like. I much prefer a collage once it has been flattened and photocopied. Photography Workshop -Absurdism, Ai Wei Wei I took issue with the photography workshop brief, 'take pictures that reflect how I feel about Carmel'. I thought ' well I feel largely apathic to Carmel. What a silly brief this is something for kids!'. Initially , I tried to take it seriously. I quickly realised that my photographs would feel slack-ish and insincere, and the process lethargic. Ai Wei Wei, Study of Perspectives T...

Old Free Writing I Found

Note from author* the text below is from a free writing exercise I did during my 2nd year art college FMP. When I read it back it still felt really relevant to my practise, and even reminded me of things I had forgotten. I thought it would be useful to add to my notes and research around Manifesto. Old Free Writing I Found It’s hard to know what I should start with talking about. I don’t feel entirely conscious of what I want to say. I thought I was doing a project about Annihilation, in a cosmic earth shattering way. Everything I made felt condescending and cruel. The work felt like it was saying ‘I know more than you’, when really what I wanted to communicate was ‘I see you, and you see me: we see ourselves’. When I was looking over my slides with Siobhan and we stopped on a Kiarostami quote: ‘Contemplating the cloudy sky and the massive trunk of a tree under a magical light is difficult when one is alone. Not being able to feel the pleasure of see...