I'm Under Construction

I rather enjoy discovery. A lot of people think that change is not needed and even feared. I don't agree with this. I believe that change is totally relevant for the survival of anything worth surviving. Sounds philisophical, I am just relating this to a discovery I just made about myself. In second year Illustration we were told to have little expectations and just try to experiment and soak up as much as we could. I followed the plan and had a lot of fun learning what I could. The thing is . . . . now in third year, I still feel like I am experimenting rather than finding confidence within my artistic decision making. During life drawing this week I really had no goals or mindset in respect to compostion or polish. The picture on the left is proof of my experience. It's a mixture of ink, white acrylic, and collage on watercolour paper. I look at it and see a big mix of ideas. I'm not really following through on making things simple for myself. It's portfolio time. Time to think about what I need to do to best represent myself. Less experimenting and more decision making. More confidence and less discovery. For now at least.