On Monday of this week, we were finally in the collage lecture theatre again attending a talk by The Fandangoe Kid on authenticity in her work. This talk was incredibly moving, detailing extremely difficult experiences and how The Fandangoe Kid has managed to turn her heartbreak and grief into artwork and how this is all based on her staying authentic to her true self and how she feels. We learned about the design process behind her work and how she used her feelings as a way of motivation. I learnt a lot about authenticity from The Fandangoe Kid and I think I will always be reminded of the way she spoke of grief and heart ache when I am creating work and trying to stay authentic in my practice.
On Friday I attended another in person workshop for another one-day brief. This week we had to make a zine about who we are. Following on from last week I went along the same lines of showing who I am through my favourite things. The list of my favourite things being roasted broccoli, Matisse, northern Italy, David Byrne, books, the Velvet Underground, Guinness and of course, Dada. I spent most of the day making little hand drawn illustrations of these things to include in my zine, I was also planning on including typography, but I ran out of time. I think my main problem with these one-day briefs is that I always run out of time and end up rushing to make a final piece which I am never fully satisfies with. This is going to be something that I try and focus on this week to make sure I don’t make the same mistake again and finally make an outcome I am proud of and can perhaps include in my presentation deck for the final project of unit 5.
