Probably my final official post on this blog (I should imagine I will still add a couple more posts at some point during the next few weeks of the degree show put up). I feel that as the blog and my degree are coming to an end, I would put a kind of sum up of my experience at University, my final project and my overall experience of using my blog.
If I could go back in time and talk to the 19 year old me who wasn’t so sure on going to Uni and nearly didn’t go I’d tell her to go for it, explore EVERY avenue with the ideas that you come up with, experiment with all materials to hand and push push push yourself until you can’t push yourself anymore, and most importantly enjoy it for the limited time there is because my god does three years fly by in a blink of an eye.
Doing this degree has opened up my eyes to the wider world of art and I feel it has also opened up a lot of doors for me to go through (be these arty or not). I feel that I have overcome so many hurdles and barriers and feel that my zoo cage project relates to the journey I have travelled through my time at Uni to get to the point that I am currently at. I also feel that my cage can represent many things not just to me, but also everyone. To me, when I look and think about my cage I feel it has become a metaphor for my time at Uni. It feels to me as if I am building this cage that is going to hold in all the experiences, feelings, ideas etc that I have felt whilst being at Uni and especially this last year, and that once I have built it the end of my time as a student is really over. It feels like I am closing the cage door on everything and turning onto new paths.
Finally, my blog experience … As a few of you may know I wasn’t that excited about the prospect of blogging as I don’t really like to express my feelings about my art. I enjoy (as many of us do) creating work for viewers to appreciate and relate to in some way and don’t try to force my opinions upon them. So keeping an account of my artwork journey, online, where anyone can read was a little bit uncomfortable for me to do, I think that this can be seen in my earlier blog posts. However, as I became more confident in my ideas and what I was doing, making and thinking and the more I posted on here, I found that I enjoyed the process of blogging. So much so, I have started a new blog that I am going to use to communicate with the world about my work.
With only a few days left till I finish, it is a bit of a scary thought that it is all coming to an end. Education has made up a large part of my life so far and having dedicated five years of my education/life to art, the real work begins … the real world beckons.
Hope you continue to follow me on my art world journey and thank you for taking the time to read my blog.
