Exercise 2: Creative Arts Studio
As you experienced in Project 2, this exercise requires you to share and discuss your work and the work of other students using the Creative Arts Studio Padlet.
Add documentation of 2 or 3 works to the Padlet and reflect on your peer discussions and feedback.
Write a reflection on the feedback and experience of showing and discussing your and others’ work. What ideas has this sparked, and how might you continue to build on and develop your Skills Hub work?
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My process
As a move on from my previous exercise based on the skills hub (photography, creative writing,poetry) and inspired by my life in China, I wrote an original story using my own photos. All the features of the ‘’MID AUTUMN FESTIVAL TALE” are mine.
To get there, I walked a lot around my neighbourhood. I stood on the side almost invisible, watching people passing by.
Since I was a child, I was fascinated by Aesop’s fables. I liked how he was passing a message through a story as well as that he was personifying creatures. In his stories, animals talk feel and react like humans. They still keep their unique features but they hold a human voice. This type of writing makes the narrative more direct as well as easy to comprehend and digest. This is why the snail in my myth speaks and reacts like a human.
The approach I follow and my work methodology is a bit unorthodox: I don’t make drafts, sketches or schemes to see how my story will go. I believe that the process of organising my work before I even start will take a lot of my inspirational energy and will ruin the ‘’eureka’’ momentum. Therefore,I work on the real story from the beginning. So, I normally find the outcome of the story, what I want to say writing it, and then gradually I use the KEYNOTE app, a presentation tool, to put my thoughts in order, to form a structure. Then, everything works as a puzzle: I add or take out pieces according to where my story is taking me. I say is taking me because I normally don’t know the structure of it and sometimes I encounter the surprising fact that I work with my instinct and I get into paths I don’t even know they exist making links into my brain that leave me in wonder.
Looking at other people’s work doesn’t help me very much either. I sometimes feel that is disrupting me making my vision blurred. I urge to do a research when I have no ideas to work on. But even then, I need to see something really strong that will shock me and will make me think. I’m blessed with the privilege of travelling. It feeds me with a lot of miscellaneous icons and feelings. I use the word feeling a lot. I think it is my driving force. Above all what is art? The amalgamation and realisation of feelings!
REFERENCES
Britannica, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Aesop”. Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Aug. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aesop. Accessed 29 October 2024.
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