my pitch was very visual, creating a broad mood board following the aesthetics of my theme, and presenting the tactile techniques and images that helped my process. instead of a main final outcome, i instead created a collection of my best techniques, as i wasn't prepared to bring this altogether into one idea. my idea was instead an aesthetic concept that i chose to explore in a textured and three-dimensional way. i displayed my colours well, and the rough/ragged nature of my concept. to improve, i could have had a clearer way of conveying what my actual concept was, and create clearer and concise sketches or collages to visualise this. overall, i think my communication could have been better visually, on my final page, showing a final presentation instead of a collection of my processes and experimentation.

i think my use of strong visuals with clear texture and colour worked really well, and it conveyed the nature of my theme successfully. i will continue to do this in the rest of my work, as my peer feedback reflected this as well.

in order to find research for my ideas factory project, i will initially create primary resources formed of sketches and photography of anything around me that has visually stimulated my concept. i want to make use of secondary resources that follow the same visual image of squeezed and bulbous layers, conveying a rough and unsettling image. i will find these through artist images, and research of things around my theme. in particular, i am looking for natural locations that are stimulating, instead of having to create one, to photograph. for example, materials and textures that already exist around me, which I can then photograph. the same for my sketches, i would like to draw from observation straight away, without having to create an image in front of me. i would like this in particular because i feel the blown up and stretched images of my concept cannot be staged, and i want them to look like a growth that has happened in the skin, not artificial, or created for stimulation. 

one way in which i think my project can be developed, would definitely be scale. with the images i am working with, i feel that the texture and shapes could be created at any infinite scale, and my initial idea of only creating an arm has morphed into the idea of a whole body suit, following the curves and silhouette of the body and growing in its own manner. from collaborating with other people, i have learnt that negotiation is key between us, as you have to think for a number of minds, not your own. this was new and strange to me, but i appreciate that im learning outside of my comfort zone. however, i like collaborating because you never know what anyone else could suddenly come up with, and a chain of ideas will begin between the group that doesn't ever have to end as there is a fresh mind waiting after each idea, instead of trying to rack your own brain for ideas and ideas.

the part of my work that i really liked today was the compelling texture of material sticking out through a blown up rubber glove, despite representing the research into my theme, i think it works really well with my beginning of a colour pallette, and its something that ties everything together, that im going to take forward into the rest of my work.