Specialised, proficient, practiced, able, skilled, knowledgeable expert capable of having an opinion who has advanced, improved, matured, grown and transformed and who can show evidence of this in a collated container or file or as it is known by my fellow students the PDP.
I had a look through a fellow students PDP file today and it was clear, honest, straight forward, all loose ends tied up and was attached to published professionals by way of context, subject and aesthetic. And mine? Currently it exists as scraps of paper, random electronic documents and mind maps. But to be fair theirs was a rerun and I do have the advantage of pining over this process for twice as much time being a yet unemployed part-time student.
Everyday I appy for jobs and still nothing. I’m restricted by location as I am commited to one day a week at University, but if push came to shove I could always negotiate something where I attended seminars in the second year. All that is up in the air as well because my partners job ends in September so well will go wherever he can find a job.
But back to the MA. When I have the time my favourite thing to do is browse the journals and magazines in the library. It never fails to inspire and excite. Today I came across an article in The History of Photography journal about film stills which is right on the button regarding the project I’m currently devising. So far I have just skim read it but just glancing through I see references to thinkers and artists I’ve already come across which is encouraging.
But priority for the moment is this side line project which I will spend tomorrow on whilst listening to Capital Volume One by Karl Marx. At some point I will receive a delivery of software which should make my life a little easier and then then week will come gently to a close and I can curl up in bed and sleep away this cold.
