Presentation Document tutorial.

Today we had a tutorial with Alexandra who is helping us write this here thing properly. Our presentation Document has to be written in a certain way in order for us to talk reflectively about ourselves and about our work. I think it will take a few tries and some getting used to but the advice given today was very useful.

We started with a task where we had to create something within half an hour, it could be anything we wanted and it was so that we were a bit impulsive and went with our first reactions. After we were asked why we had created the image we had done, what that says about you and what that says about how you like to work, what that says about your interests.

Previous projects have been marked with us present and so we have been able to talk about our work as it is being shown. In this instance our our work is being marked separately and so to give across our thoughts, ideas and intentions clearly it is important that we write in a particular way and delve a bit deeper into the reasons we are creating such work.

I created a paper cut of a fox head. I realised I tended towards animals when drawing, due to ability to draw them and also to my attachment. I was asked why I had an attachment and spoke of my grandma who was very interested in nature, in particular she loved foxes. I remember photographs of her holding her hand out to a fox and always being amazed by it as a child. The back garden of my childhood home often had a set at the back of it, and I would see foxes run along behind our wall. I think the animals have just been on my mind as well recently as I have been looking at stories involving them.

This exercise was useful as it directly showed us how we are meant to approach this written work. We were able to talk about our process reflectively and explain clearly how we came about creating our images.