Tutorials

Today I had my Tutorial with Nigel; it did not go as well as I hoped. The problem with my work and the way I work is that I do not know how to control my ideas and I get bored of one idea very quickly. Although all my ideas are very different in my opinion they all link, some not in an obvious way, but that is only because they look very different. For example the Laughing gas and the soap in the microwave, I got from one idea to the other by being more interested in the gases in the canisters more than the actual silver object. I became very interested in the idea of creating a bubble that will never pop and when you place a bar of soap in to a microwave, it expands and bubbles. Therefore, they look so different but clearly link. I am worried people will not see this and think my mind is just jumping all around the place.

One thing that was mentioned in the tutorials about my work is it does not seem to have a meaning and it may look good and unusual but so what if it has no meaning. This has really knocked my confidence and I am now trying to think of one. One suggestion was a fantasyland and I understand this as my soap is very cartoon like and seems very magical. However, I am a little worried that this idea has been done too much and I want to do something very fresh and new. However, this could be my mission, to bring the idea of a fantasyland back to life and I do not want my work to be at all cheesy or tacky. I also do not want to be obvious. Manchester is quite obviously not every ones fantasy land, so I need to think if I want to be a grungy fantasy which would fit well with Manchester, or I could do it as a Manchester has little innocence so I’m bringing it here with my work. This could even be done with images and photography and not so literal than the soap and bubbles.

The tutorial helped me ton down my ideas and pick out the best that I have, however it has knocked me a little but I will come back with a lot more interesting ideas. I hope that my next tutorial will go better and excites people even more.