Jonny WIP

Today I had a work in progress session (WIP) with Jonny Hannah. We were about 7 people in total for the group, all waiting for assessment. Before we began Jonny updated us on our schedule next week.

Scan from my sketchbook

The meeting began, where we would each in our own words present our work, why we did it, and what we still had left to complete. With the exception of one student in the room, who seemed to have quite  a lot of work and research, everyone had either the same as or less than I did. Which came as a strange surprise, as I consider myself to be cripplingly behind at the moment. I do not know what to say as I cannot think that all 6 of my peers had a good reason not to work over Easter. It was clear that Jonny did not take this news well, which all things considered is understandable, what I did not understand was why he chose to have a go at me. What I did not appreciate from Jonny was his response to my saying "well I did loose Easter due to my family and my grandmothers death" and him trying to tell me how to feel, and to just keep working after seeing her die. I was very angry at him, but I will give him the benefit of the doubt as it is clear he has been under a lot of stress lately... that and so few of us having a decent amount of work must also have added quite a bit. Nevertheless he did like my work and where I was going with it, though saying that when printing the war poster again, to use a paler background colour, and perhaps considering to use another foreground colour than black.

Afterwards I was able to have a quick meeting with Alexandra, where I showed her a quick preview of this blog. She said that my PD seemed to be going in the right direction now, and that I should continue with it, following these guidelines:

STRUCTURE HELP FOR THE PRESENTATION DOCUMENT
Make sure you have the following sections in your presentation document


1. Cover ( in case that you have a bog that would be your header)

2. Content page (page numbers of the different sections 3-7)

3. About the presentation Document

4. About yourself /about the author (connect your project with yourself as a person – talk about the connection between you and your references-artists theorists)

5. Reflective journal (write and show visually your process)
Consider having a small summary in the beginning of every week with3-4 bullet points.

6. Conclusion (summarize your experience and your thoughts overall- look back at your work and tell us how you feel about the descisons you have made, talk about the presentation document and if the visual and writing process helped you to rationalise your thoughts and processes.)

7. Bibliography (references of artists)



Tips and suggestions

Visual journey: Make sure that you showcase visually your process including your sketches, visual progress of your work, visual references.
Make sure you annotate your visuals and clearly connect them with the text.

Written Journey: Make sure you clearly describe the narrative of your project, be critical about your work and your references.


Submission type: blog form, word doc, or physical books