CAPTURE - WEEK TWO REVIEW

My planning and organisation within this project has been challenged as a result of illness and as a result i do not believe it accurately represents how i usually work as i have had to delay my independent studies by a week which consequently means that my organisation is rushed. However i do feel this this also reflects positively on my attitude to learning and time management as i have been able to complete my project by setting myself deadlines and targets to utilise my time effectively, despite my break in learning.

Throughout the project i also believe that i have been more open to change and adapting my ideas than usual. Although this may not have occurred through my use of materials or my colour pallet, my idea development has adapted and taken some drastic changes in the direction of my work. For example, i have moving my modern photos, my own photos and professionally taken photos to a range of old photos from an archive in order to broaden my subject matter form love to family and family history, to achieve and more professional seeming set of work. Although this doesn't sound like such a major change in direction, it is evident when looking at my work that there is a completely different approach to the images and presentation and how i have worked on the images as a result of influence from a range of different artists that i have studies throughout this project.

I have also done a lot of further experimentation with materials which has allowed me to evaluate a wide range of aspects within my trials as i have looked back on my initial work and felt that my anagogue day work was the most effective. I have also been able to look at a wider range of artists and reflect upon the materials that they have used in order to gain similar effects and atmospheres as i wish to create within my work. For example, i had been inspired by ways artists adam boomberg and oliver chanarin have presented their archive images and therefore have also isolated parts of my images by cutting circles in paper and placing it over a collage. This is something i felt i was lacking in my past projects as i feel i did not clearly translate whee i got my inspiration form.

Another thing i have done differently in this project is looking at artists which are subject specific to the topic in question as i have looked at a range of both media and fine art artists throughout this project which i feel has really developed my ideas and enabled me to gain a wide range of different aspects to my work, instead of just media, which i feel has made it more suited for me, this has also allowed me to explore different techniques which has made me more motivated to carry on with my work as i am definitely more inspired when working in a fine art way, making my work more interesting and preventing me from making a generic media project.

A final thing that i have really improved on this week is presenting my work through my blog and sketchbook, which has allowed me to write about my ideas and progress in an effective and consistent way. This has meant that i can explain my ideas to others online at the same time as being about to talk about my work as well. This is an improvement from my design project as i had to work on paper, making it harder for me to really explore and organise my work in an effective way, therefore meaning i had little enthusiasm to write about and evaluate my work.