What part of today’s tasks did you find difficult and why?

-In the part of group discussion, I was unable to say much things and fully express my ideas because I was worried about if they were interesting enough to say. When we talked about the definition of white space, things seem go too far unexpectedly. To be more specific, our peers intend to talk about white space based on their personal understanding, which was interesting and did opened my mind. But the research I did seems too technical and limited in professional areas (print, photography, film..) and didn’t focus more on personal things. So this made me think that it could be better to include more diverse contents in my research, not just understand what other people say, but also try to understand them in my own way, using my personal experiences.

What lesson did you learn from following the process we set out?

-The process made me think without any barriers through putting the “making” part ahead of the manifesto part. When we found and created our white space, we didn’t know exactly what happened next. We just focused on creating interesting shapes and this was good because we were not limited by any concepts or meanings.

Then we do the manifesto part, trying to summarise things we have done and draw inspiration from them. I think this sequence of task worked for me because I always spent too much time on the concept and it always turned out that outcomes were not as strong as my concept.

-Today was all about developing ideas following the manifesto. I found some very interesting manifestos created by my peers. I think the one named "Manifesto to celebrate dropped chewing gum" was quite impressive. It encouraged people to find gum stuck on the pavement and paint the gum white. Although it was not complicated, it's a thing that everyone can do easily. It also applied the idea of "white space" to an actually thing, which is close to daily basis. The expectation of this manifesto is to celebrate these shapes created by squishing gum, it's interesting but i think need to explore more deeply.

-My manifesto is not bad i think. I did think carefully about the actions i encourage and also the expectation. I think it's strong enough for me to carry my project. 

Following my manifesto, i came up several ideas about how to present it and in what forms it could be conveyed to the audience. My initial idea was to make a stop motion, describing all the actions in my instructions. I choose one object randomly to "observe" through a hole, the lens got closer and closer to create a sense of "exploration" and "focus". I think it worked after i turned it into a stop motion, but the problem is one object is not enough to suggest my ideas. Also, the stop motion is too short and i was struggling on how to make it longer and express the sense in a natural way. I have tried different ways to include more objects to be observed, and that need to be considered carefully. I think they need to have some kind of connections with each other. I asked my peers for advice at the end of the day, they thought it was too short to be an outcome as well and gave me some suggestions on how to include more things naturally. So the day was all about testing and self-doubting. All i got from today is realising the idea need to be developed further.

I also talked with my tutor with another idea, which was making a collection. I was thinking created holes on different random object, such as bottles, cardboards, plastics...And then i collected them together on a large board. But my tutor told me that she prefered the initial idea and it was better to keep it simple and strong...

Great, I'm stuck. Again. 

I was confident about creating good work following my manifesto, but who knows, life is tough...