Persons of Note - Final Crit and Reflections

 

 

The three main words used to describe my work in the crit:
Fragmented/ eclectic, robotic, melancholy

What am I happy with?

• I wasn't aiming for a robotic aesthetic, I was more just doodling and trying to find different ways of bringing the fragmented limbs together. However, I guess that this does reflect the unnatural, prosthetic feel that I was trying to give the figure.
• I am also really glad that people described my work as melancholy. This was something that I really focused on communicating in my jars but then moved slightly away from in my poster. I am not sure if this comment applied to just my jars or my poster too. I hope that it could be applied to my poster because even though I used colour and quite cartooned marks I did want it to have a slightly dark creepy nature to it.
• I feel that my poster works well as a single image to communicate a combination of different things at once. Different fragments (as described in the crit) of ideas and layers of meaning are forming. I am really pleased about this because it is something that is quite difficult to do. It was made possible by the depth of my initial research and I loved that in this brief I gave me the time to go into so much depth. 
• I also think that the way in which the jars on the postcards have been directly incorporated int the collage. This works nicely to unite my series and add another level of meaning to my collage.

What could I have done differently?

• I think that the stamps perhaps could have been more considered. I do quite like their aesthetic and the way that they work as a series of four but I think I could have considered what I put in them more. Maybe I could have designed them separately, rather than just taking crops from the poster. I could have also tied everything together better if I had put parts of the jars in some of them.
• I also think that generally in this project I started making quite finished looking images too quickly and I could have done a lot more quick sketching and planning first. This is something that I have been constantly trying to steer away from and I think that I slightly snapped back into old habits here. 

How am I going to move forward?

• I think that in future projects I need to try to put aside more time to do my initial research. I feel that this is something that really drives my ideas and my most successful projects so far have been the ones where I've done this.