Semester 3 Final: done
Right it’s done, it’s where it is, it’s finished to the point where it can be handed in and the day before deadline too, I’ll sleep on it and breathe and see where I’m at…
What do I think to it?
This is the difficult question to answer here isn’t it, you risk colouring the lecturers marking of it if you say anything other than something positive, I think it’s good, it is what it is though and I’ve hopefully measured it correctly for the brief and requirements, feel I’ve hit the learning outcomes and gauged the tone but you never know how it’ll be looked upon. I’ll let you know when the marks come in..
What have I learnt? Many, many things but here some of the more printable ones..
I thought I always preferred reading material to be on the printed pages but the use of online journals has ramped up the time sat in front of a screen but being able to search a pdf’s for a specific word to enable the research has been phenomenal, so much so I’ve wished I could pdf some of the books that I’ve ben reading..
Search terms need so much work, much like keywording they can be the most frustrating things on earth, see what happens when you miss 2 letters out or accidentally type in something that is other than 100% correct and the paths that will take you on…
Covid19 has had an effect on this work, like it’s had an effect on every part of life, I have been very lucky with the effects of lockdown but on reflection I’ve missed interactions, especially those chance ones, those human ones where you see what somebody actually means, also the online meeting mean that people can only talk one at a time, interrupting, questioning is different and the thought processes are taking a while to get use to. The chance to show work other than on a screen is taking the work in different directions; my subject of bland imagery will not work as well on screen as it does in a gallery setting so I will have to think about that.
The major one has been the impossibility of accessing certain books, there has been a few vital texts that I’ve just not been able to get at either through lockdown, expense or availability.
I realise that this will sound selfish after the effects of the pandemic have hit others much harder but these are my thoughts on the specific effects of being an MA student in the pandemic.
I’ve done what I needed to do but you do always feel that you could have done more so fingers crossed and here we go..
Next step is the image making process.. read on for more of that journey…
Dated end of June