Year 4 Sem 1

Another academic year and another studio has ended and this is the final product. hmm so its time to reflect again. so how do i feel about this project... not that great actually.

Months have been wasted to figure out on what my project is and in the end i only had a two short weeks ( in between there are assignments too, coz i had taken 6 modules!!!) to churn all this material out. I am proud of myself in a certain way that i did what was near impossible. A process that involved 24 stacked frames with like another 24 different kind of different variations and with a tutor who directed me in so many different directions

During the debrief after the crit sessions, Joseph said something that i was rather uncomfortable with.

"u are that kind of student with no process because u need to find that idea or motivation then your process follows and u produce and u do produce. u can work like this in year 4 but not in year 5."

i mean is it wrong? well at least let me rant a little and explain myself why coseng always does not seem to have a "PROCESS"

i think its because of the way i think about projects. i dun believe in a method whereby u do research and development in like 10000 directions, find one good result and then develop it

accordingly. to me this kind of working method is called "SHOOTING BLINDLY". i create 10 options and pick the best to have a final product.

what i believe in is a vision, an idea, an underlying feel of what is the nature and character of a project. it has to serve a purpose first for research. something like a hypothesis, a cloudy blurry vision that u work towards. A vision that u aim for in the development process. Note the subtle difference?that's why i am always churning out stuff during the last 2 weeks. The unseen process is in the thinking. something like i have the final product in mind and i develop to make it. i work this method because i am someone who can compress, analyze and produce and it works perfectly fine for me. i call this "SHOOTING PRECISION"

i dun believe in walking blindly and yes i do believe in the final product. Its all that matters to me. Yes processes are important, but they are only important, useful and relevant to a project only when the Final Product is successful. other than that, process mean nothing.

i mean think about it this way. If u study in 10 years to get a FUCKED O'level results, would your parents or teacher say, its okie, u studied. Rather it would seem like 10 years have been wasted on studying in the wrong method. Thats my view, i am sure there a some exceptions, but this is how i do design for now. Maybe i need a change in year 5. Maybe...