Now there's a word if I have ever seen one..............in fact a word that never existed (for me at least) until last the other day after receiving formative feedback from an assignment in context and narrative (overlapping module).
A-U-T-O-E-T-H-N-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y Reflective, reflexive, introversion the me myself and I.....looking for self, meaning and placement, anchorage between the inside and the outside world and my relationship with everything within it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIvC0IohRVc [accessed 05/02/19]
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I remember my early thoughts on Square Mile on EVY
"I have never left my one square meter, in fact I could show you all my square mile without moving from my one square meter sat here in front of my laptop, in fact I don’t even need to get my camera out I can just give you street view links" https://whatifiamwrong.weebly.com/secondary-thoughts.html [accessed 22/01/2019] I decided to experiment with this idea, appropriating google street view and digitally manipulating them. Turning them into black and white a deliberate act of nostalgia and rose tinted but the contrast is the digitally not so perfect the digitally artifact seen within the google street view - i.e steps in lines where there should be none. The introduction of white circles with there non perfect blocky outline. Almost like a lie that is meant to be seen honest in nature. The houses are all of the homes that I have lived, the circles indicator of the people who lived in them. I enjoy trying to strip has much of the OCA from my learning journal, of course there are the traces of headings assignments, reflection, course work. The unit a frame work to build, mold and shape into my personal work.
Even in light of some of my difficulties around written, I enjoy using and exploring text to add different layers of meaning to visual work. I like the sense that the text is more like me thinking my thought process and very unlike the way I communicate face to face. I am the only person here, I'am 1.4 The average human brain weights 1.4kg and self is contained within this soft delicate mushy mass. So it seemed like a fitting title. https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/RachelScottRosenbluth.shtml I think for the first time since I started my journey with the OCA I feel quite positive about the dreaded written, reading and research. A monster so terrifying I have been sitting on the previous unit - Context and Narrative for at least six months - the only holdup, the monster. It is the written and reading. In fact that this unit is going to overlap with the beginning of this unit - Identity and Place.
I have been approaching and viewing this element has a huge slab of work, in my mind so large it is almost impossible to even contemplate. Close my eyes and it disappears - sorted. Source of this monster, I struggle with spelling, grammar, missing out words, place them in the wrong order, repeat repeat words (humour). Even when I draft two or three times, re-reading two or three time checking for errors before the final text is ready I still miss things. Of course a large slab of written takes a very very long time. I am a million times more able than I was has a child - technology has had a huge impact for. Reading large portions of text is challenging it all is quite draining. So I do what I tend to do - close my eyes and avoid if it becomes all to much. If I was to be completely honest it was the only reason I didn't do my Nursing Degree. But here I am thankfully doing a photography degree. I am currently happy within my current role within the NHS. So I am deeply aware that I am somewhere on the dyslexic scale but never have had it formally confirmed costs way to much has an adult and back in the day rarely but even confirmation will change little. But little is the key word, note taking, I am comfortable reading short articles - but I don't consider this read has in read - mad I know. All this was triggered last night at a parents evening regarding my son’s up and coming exams, teacher said to him revise in small 20 minute chunks, knowledge will start small but after a bit it will snowball and before you know it will become one huge snowball. This can be applied to the written and reading element - I feel that I have been poor in documentation or evidencing learning/ development and research. However I recognize that I am an extreme effective reflective person which is evidenced in the way that I write and so far tutors have found my written engaging. I believe that can improve this area in preparation for level 2. I have tried little and often before a number of time but failed to make it work but something feels different this time. Feeling positive. |