Tutorial Feedbabk

In my tutorial it was the weirdest thing, when I went to explain what I had done I suddenly got all shaky and full of butterflies. I was trying to read out my mind map but I could't process what I was saying so I wasn't making any sense. I think maybe this is because it was quite personal. Damn this has suddenly made me terrified for my powerpoint!! I have never ever had problems public speaking before. I was so annoyed at myself for not expressing my ideas clearly because it meant that I didn't get the feedback that I wanted.

Feedback:

• At the moment my objects are too two dimensional - they aren't telling a story. I need to do more than just take objects from my room and assemble them - need to say something about me. Maybe tell the story of the objects?
• In relation to my later college (represents different areas of my practice) it was suggested that I don't try to say everything in a single image and that I just focus on a specific area of my practice. It was suggested that I put my focus on research and this split between order and chaos. 

What was said about the face pieces did frustrate me because collecting weird fascinating objects is a form of research that I love and am interested in (they represent research in the simplest form). I also thought that they were an interesting vehicle to represent this split between chaos and order - because they are literally either perfectly lined up on my shelf or everywhere - in turn with the state of my life (chaos or ordered). 

However, I definitely agreed with what was said about my other collage where they thought I was trying to say too much. I agree that my focus should be simply on research and the divide between chaos and order. 

I think that now I need think more in depth about how I am going to communicate this idea of research and what about it I want to communicate (divide is quite simple - I can just do this visually). Research is all about finding out a story - I either need to think more about my objects and what story they tell/ how I'm going to communicate this or just make my interest in people and finding out their story my focus. = Back to the mind map

• We also discussed how I could make my interest in research a focus for my powerpoint - this is definitely something I want to do. 

Specifically: 

- My ideas are all starting to have roots in research/ discovery (I like illustrating non-fiction) and I don't like inventing things

- I specifically like finding things out about people and their stories

- I then like drawing from this and trying to communicate interesting parts of their lives

- This interest sparked in the book in my book brief when I became fascinated in objects and the stories that they might hold from the past/ the people who owned them (interesting play between fact and fiction = real life objects/ allowed the viewer to invent their own stories).

- This then further developed in the persons of note where I was able to specifically research a single person and ground my ideas on this

- Olivier Kugler has always been my favourite illustrator - his work is all about telling people's stories

- I also had an obsession with desert island disks - finding out peoples stories - interesting how this links with music - different songs can be used to represent different stages of their life.