I hope to be considered and admired more than just an image maker and as a person who can communicate, other than just visually, such as into politics and within popular culture. What I mean by this is that I hope to acquire an articulate language which opens people's eyes and lets them correspond with me easily.
I hope to attain all the confidence I have gained being at college and to live a life where the way I express myself is heard and recognized by people that are not just close to me. I hope to be freely artistic in every sense.
My fears for the next semester and after are that I won't achieve the grade I desire because I'll stumble at the last hurdle. That's probably my biggest fear because having come so far with great achievement and understanding, to suddenly fall in a trap of becoming lazy would make me regret my actions for the rest of my life.
My fear also is that my work may lose it's capability of clearly communicating something. What I mean is that I fear I may lead into an area of work that will cause me to lose myself. I fear even that straying into the illustration industry will make me forget that my work is my own and not something to be made just for money. I feel this greatly because what we have learnt during our time at university, mainly during our contextual studies, is that becoming an illustrator seems to contradict everything about expressing your true self.
My potential opportunities for the next semester and beyond would include to create more abstract pieces based on the popularity of my developing portfolio and to pay a visit to the Northern Quarter in Manchester to hang them in bars and even hold mini exhibitions. This idea was offered to me by my past art foundation tutors who said I could potentially work onto canvases and so on.
Another good opportunity coming up for us all is the London trip. It will offer us the chance to witness the demand for art and design and what we're up against. It'll also be good because we'll be able to show our portfolios to professionals in a region of the country, far from our own.
An opportunity that's been handed to me before and may perhaps come again, is designing gig posters for a friend of mine who hosts bands to play at Kraak Gallery in Manchester. I designed a line-up poster for him last year and he greatly appreciated it. However I didn't receive any pay towards it because I forgot to ask. I'll know what to do next time.
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