Summer project 2022
A sense of place
As the brief for this project was being read aloud, I was feeling confident and excited to hear it, because I already had a great deal of research on my favourite place near home. I had 23000 words for a book based upon the place.
When it came to producing work for a specific audience, however, my work ethic changed considerably. I no longer felt the free rein of my own imagination, but felt stagnated by the fear of expectation. I began to think what I could produce that would be suitable and relevant to the textile course. I asked deeper questions about what I wanted to convey in my work, rather than just feeling it and whilst this encouraged my understanding of what the place meant to me, still I felt constricted by conscious creativity as I doubted my own creative responses. And so all that I did was stare at the water and its mesmerising light strobes, wondering how on earth can I capture this.
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