Halfway through the semester, I have almost finished my first project. As a “newbie” doing my first project in the Art track, there are still a lot of challenges and many parts that I didn’t do very well that I can correct later.
I actually have no experience in finding themes. Most of my previous projects were made from photography. So my first idea was how to use photography to complete a project, however, my first step was wrong. Luckily, I found the right track quickly with the teacher’s prompting. Because what I am doing is an art project, the most important thing is the content itself, not the method or the form, the form is just a way to serve our theme.
I started with a project on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. I didn’t do enough work in this project to find a topic, so I stopped being interested in the project after two weeks. This part reminded me that in my next project, I should do a better job of understanding the issue and the section from all sides. This is crucial for the future of the project and whether I can stick with it.
Luckily, I found a topic that I liked, “Time”. After deciding on the topic, I started my research with different resources, including authoritative academic content, relevant video resources, and classic films related to time, as well as reading about how other artists have made work on the topic of time. Personally, I am still satisfied with the part of my investigation. The only thing I would like to improve is the timing and efficiency, I spent quite a lot of time in this section, which led to some time constraints in the experimental section later on.
In the experimental part, I went to try the video time-lapse to record the passage of time, slow motion to record a process of time was slowed down. Also used the hand-drawn form to draw a freeze-frame moment of the picture. Also used 3d modeling software Rhino to make some art installations about time. In the experimental part, as I am better at video shooting, so by quite a big than part of the use of video techniques. I think I did not do particularly rich in the innovative part, in the subsequent experiments, can be in thinking about whether to make a lot of difference or do the same in-depth.
This time I did not produce a final product, which has a certain relationship with the theme I chose. Time, the theme was too large and generalized. I wasn’t able to find the right part for me. It needs to be strengthened after retrieving this part.
This project was the first time I experienced the process of finishing doing an art project. The overall focus was on learning and figuring out. I believe that through this attempt and hitting a wall, I can grow and do better in my next project and avoid this problem from happening again.