Last Thursday we had our weekly year meeting lecture with Alex, this week entitled Risk Taking and Experimentation. In short, the basic ideas that were mentioned through the practice of risk/ experimentation were to improve practice, a mental exercise and to be 'creative on demand'. There were a lot of great examples on how to risk take, baring in mind that our degree, as Alex told us, will be the last time that we are able to experiment in the textile industry, before we have to work in the real world.
- turn abstract to real life, explore something that is difficult to express
- surrender control, draw with your mouth, opposite hand, eyes closed
- connect the unconnected, yarn bombing/ tagging
- do lots of the same thing, ink drawing/ abstract mark-making
- don't be afraid of simplicity, white space
- do something else for a bit, new combination of old elements
- break something and mend it, cut up, rearrange, destroy, deconstruct
I am really enjoying our year lectures, it is nice to be able to meet up every week and discuss important and very useful facts together, it stops the 'chinese whisper' game. Everyone is up to date and knows exactly what is expected of them .
This week I shall be taking on board the notes that I have written down, and try out experimentation. My brief is possibly the most expressive/ experimental out of the five, so shall be good to play.