I've never had a tutorial with Jamie before, so I felt almost as if I was pitching my practice to him and had to make a good first impression. As well, I guess I put him in a difficult position being like 'hi I've never spoken to you before but I have no idea where my practice is going so please fire ideas at me'.
We both agreed that the building a week project/work with Independent Leeds was one of my strongest pieces of work so far, but questioned how it could be more focused and expansive, and if there would be an overarching theme to everything. My main worry is that I have such a scattered practice and am interested in too many different things to maintain a qualitative focus. Jamie suggested that I focus on less small briefs, because 'I will get bored of them' and 'less is more', which is completely true.
With my interest in teaching and developing creative workshops it was suggested that I place more emphasis on this for my final major project.
As I said in the post yesterday about the peer review, I'm really struggling with my practice. This tutorial has really helped but at the same time confused me a little-at no fault of Jamie's! I know that this won't last forever, but the clock is ticking and I really need something that I can sink my teeth into. So I'm going to go to my favourite place of inspiration-Waterstones!
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