Dora Do

In my meeting with Sarah, she started by asking me about myself, my background, my creative practice, and why I came to the program. I told her about how joining this program was my way of finding how I could be creative again, after suppressing that feeling for so many years. I also told her about my photography, and how that is the only consistent creative outlet I have done over the years, but was starting to feel bored with it.

She asked me to share some work I’ve done in the past, whether it be my photography or work I’ve done for the program. I showed her this set of images from my Instagram:

I also told her about the project I did over the summer term, Ambient Watercolor. She asked me what is it that I liked about my summer project, and I told her that I enjoyed piecing together the different experiments I had done with generative art and motion recognition. From there, she gave me a lot of jumping points to think about from my existing work. She noticed that my photographs were all of people from behind and faceless, and saw the metaphor I hoped to express: the smallness of humans compared to the world. She then wondered how I could translate the feelings that I capture in my photos into an interactive piece similar to Ambient Watercolor.

My action items before the next time we meet are to:

• Apply the “Observe – Analyze – Interpret – Evaluate” method of my own work and work that inspires me
• Find a single theme among that work and find one word to describe them
• Create a dream review/write up about myself, how I want me work to come across and what I want people to be inspired by when they look at my work

Overall, I’m getting more excited about thesis. It’s looking like less of a daunting task, and more like something I get to do to express myself fully.