The new brief, which runs for FIVE WEEKS, is titled ‘When Worlds Collide’ and looks incredible. We have been given two lists and are asked to pick a topic from each. The topics range from being pretty basic to being quite obscure- from teletubbies to feminism, and mexican wrestlers to folk tales there’s a lot of scope for potential combinations.

When choosing my two topics, I took into consideration how I’ve been feeling about the course recently. I am loving all of the experimental work and have created some pieces I am really proud of that have pushed me far out of my comfort zone. But whilst I want to continue this experimentation, I also want to explore what has brought me here in the first place. I want to create some more complex pieces and indulge myself in some time to do some drawing and painting. I want to regain some of the confidence in my work that I used to have.

So, in order to do this, on the back of a conversation I had with Claire I had in my tutorial, I chose Birds as my first category. Birds are something I love drawing, but whilst I feel they inspire me I don’t feel they are particularly challenging and after thinking about it a little, I decided also that I didn’t want to box myself into my comfort zone. Buildings, however, are things I have actively fled from tackling in my artwork. So, naturally, I’ve taken a topic rooted firmly in my comfort zone to contrast it with one so far out of my comfort zone in hope that could spark some interesting ideas.

With that I have decided upon Birds and Architecture! I am hoping that even if I hit a wall tackling architecture, my love of birds will bring the project back to life. I want to approach this topic as an exploration of technique, as it’s the last project of the first term I think it would be a nice homage to the course to try and incorporate everything that I have learned into this project. But we shall see!