Opening up this year has been a challenge after such a bad time with my disability. I am thankful to say that the Lecturers have all been so supportive and just knowing they care is helpful.
Its heartbreaking not making deadlines and yet perhaps i am over critical of my progress. I like to be organised in amongst all the chaos of academia.
Until now i have not realised how precious good positive and practical support we have as students, can enrich our time as final year students.
Fine Art is great to study as you can feed the mind with creativity and the atmosphere on the course is not competitive as in previous years its a great feeling to be a part of BREATHE Degree Show.
It took a lot to come back to study this year but the passion and depth of The Gaze and Mirror Stage and the work of Mona Hatoum really is engaging my academic thinking despite all the harm i had last December due to Bipolar Disorder (mental illness).
Health really is a major issue in studying. Over the years i have seen many people suffer due to mental or physical illneses. But i am proud to say i am persevering and being motivated. Its a challenge thinking academically anyway as i see many people focus their energies right now on Dissertations … but we have a Degree Show to plan for too!!!
Today we brainstormed and made the progress we so desperately need. We will have fun and make it work.
Exercising the body is helping too! i get up 6.30 am in the morning to do Dance Cardio and it has really helped to keep positive and focussed. Healthy Body = Healthy Brain!!!
My method of working on my written work i have noticed i need to spread out the books notes and important references into an aesthetic visually engaging order as you can see, my References for the Bibliography in the images in this post. Which relates to my Dissertation theme of The Gaze. It’s vital to my way of organising and planning as well as theoretically thinking.
