Part 1

Throughout all of the professor’s presentations, I gathered that the common thread is development. I felt like all three of them, explicitly or implicitly, advised to develop certain aspects of your work in order to get better–do not be afraid to practice, make a mistake, or explore something about yourself and?or your work.

I feel like Tuan’s presentation just taught me to not be afraid to just work. He really worked himself by working for his father. He experimented with different ideas and conceptualized a lot of ideas, and although a few of them were not put into use, he still found value in creating, working, and developing his style in many different types of mediums.

Hollis’s presentation really got me to think more about myself. Throughout her artwork, one could see her voice clearly, and throughout time that voice became more definite it seems. I think that I should really study what’s my drive to work (what am I try to say through my work). And I feel like that the more I explore my interests, and learn more about myself, my voice will become clearer.

Bill taught me to just do what I want to do. He was making commercial work–work that seemed to provide himself with reliable source of money, but he abandoned that in order to explore different means of work. He developed a style through extracting color and shape to make new images. He developed a technique. I feel like in order to do any work, especially if you want to do something that isn’t done before, you have to refine and develop a technique in order to do so.

Part 2

My goal beyond college is to possibly go to graduate school for design. I ultimately want to work with fashion and/or concerts. I especially like dealing with motion and live performances so concert performances and runway shows are ideal. I’m still learning the conventions of how one gets integrated in designing visuals for those type of shows but in order to be marketable and attractive to employers in this work field, I would probably want to work with motion graphics, continue to work for the school’s fashion magazine, probably the Sorin Oak review as well in the future, get internships in dealing with performance, graphic design, and/or fashion, explore the Adobe Suite, just continue to make and display work, and ultimately develop my voice.