FMP: Week Three

CREATIVE WEEK

Are You a Person?

The third (though technically second week of the FMP) was a surprise to me and my work. We were suddenly tasked with a creative brief of collaborating with another pathway in order to create something that was not only reflective of all individual members ideas and skills, but was creatively interesting and displayed and intellectual concept.

My graphics pathway collaborated with the students of Lens Based Media, and immediately I felt that my group from the beginning was successfully able to find creative ways of sharing and putting together ideas and skills - for example, one thing we primarily considered (and ultimately produced) was to use a merge of illustration - from mine and my graphics partners input - and the photographic skills of the LBM student we had a collab with.

When it came to the formulating ideas and concept for out project; after a group brainstorm and discussion, we immediately saw similarities within our individual projects that we could use to our advantage and produce something reflective of all ideas within the group. The element that was strong conscious throughout the group was the theme of people, personalities, human-ness and individual, personal aspects. Immediately our group had successful ideas of what we could produce, what it could mean/represent, etc. 

Using the group materials we had managed to bring together on short notice, we ended on the idea of creating varying dolls out of the material that would ultimately represent that difference withing human beings and human nature - a project which we accurately entitled 'Are You a Person?' considering it was safe to say this was a question we were definitely asking through out project work.

The rest of the week was creatively active and I feel we were constantly producing things that were successful, as well as certainly being unique and interesting. In the end out group managed to produce a set of dolls that we used to convey the concept and questioning of human-ness and what aspect truly builds up and creates a 'person'; but the main final product was a small booklet of drawn anatomical imagery and photography of the actual human form, which overall visually displayed the contrast we were aiming for, as well as creating something that was not only visually interesting but well made and unique.

Above: Two of our dolls and our final booklet (minus the illustrations)

In conclusion, initially I found this Creative Week to be difficult and a slight drag on my creative consciousness and the work of my FMP. Though of course it is always interesting to engage with students of a differing pathway - I find such is always interesting as it is nice to see an alternative artist approach to a shared brief - I found it was not at all the best time to give such a creatively demanding brief. Although such was meant to be an addition to our own FMPs, and help continue a flow of ideas and creativity, I found I had to put my own project ideas on hold for such work, and was far more focused on creating something that made sense and reflected all individuals, rather than seeing it as some kind of continuation to my won work.