Today’s lesson was a struggle for me, which is really unfortunate because I was extremely excited for it. I feel like I was very well prepared and was/am super happy with all the collage work I did over the last two weeks. Since today’s focus was shape I already had a bit of a rough start, because well Monet isn’t really a very shapely or structured artist but I don’t want to use that as an excuse for my shortcomings. Now, I don’t mind working intuitively, in fact I really like it. What I don’t like is working VERY fast and spontaneous. I like to try a lot of different things and take my time before choosing one idea to take forward. I am a person who very carefully plans, this might not make sense to a lot of people but it’s just my way of working. I would have needed more time to play with different shapes in the beginning and try some thing before selecting one that I would work on for the rest of the session. I am of course aware that this is mostly due to the time constraints of the lesson but it made the whole process very unsatisfactory for me.
Secondly, the longer I am on this course the more I realise what my priorities in design are, and it’s not shape. I think shape is fascinating but I find myself more drawn to textual work. Something with a lot of texture, or movement, or different techniques being used (I’ll try to find some examples). Shape and silhouette don’t come to me as easily as I wish they did.
Now let’s say I would go into textile, I am absolutely not interested in knit and I am also not interested in print (it’s fun and I like playing with it but I want texture). I looked at embroidery and thought it looked interesting/appealing but I am scared that I’ll be stuck designing fabrics/textiles rather than fully realised pieces of clothing. It is confusing and thinking about it for too long gives me a headache.
