WEEK 1 – “Can you submit a short written and illustrative reflection of what you did /or felt over the summer in your blogs and where you see your next steps progressing, if you haven’t already done so. Please bring these together with your research ideas to your group discussions on Tuesday.”
During lockdown I, like many others I am sure, were feeling less than motivated to complete creative tasks or engage with our more creative side in terms of making content. I felt limited and deflated in terms of keeping myself going with a strict routine and therefore produced a limited amount of work and even struggled with my modules due around the beginning of summer.
However, although without making much work, I kept engaged with the art and design world and kept letting things inspire me; I started getting more into watching documentaries about topics which interested me such as “Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics” and “The Social Dilemma”, as I know it’s important to involve myself in what’s trending currently and watch things that question and delve into interesting topics. Luckily this has made me value videos even more as a source of gathering information as documentaries cover a range of topics.
Looking through the Lockdown Diaries on Dazed was extremely interesting for me as since the world has completely change and resources have become limited, this has made artists more creative and resourceful in the way they produce and present their work; which could come in handy for when I need to present my work later on as everything is still currently online. It allowed for a community to be brought together in such uncertain times and highlighted the connection that art and design can bring worldwide through a simple hashtag #AloneTogether. What stood out to me was the Lockdown Diaries: New Dehli on Dazed.com. India is one of the most populated areas and went into one of the biggest lockdown which would have been a great contrast to reality and how people had been previously living their lives and therefore a lot of adaptation and adjustment would have taken place.
