Today, we're now moving into a new topic, which is a journey. For this task, we were told to begin making little ideas on a mind map to try and find the beginning of our inspiration, and I knew mine very clearly already, which I will touch on later.
This is the first mind map we made to begin making ideas for this project. I was originally going to do a three-circle method, where my ideas in the red circle would be closest linked to the topic, and anything in the green or blue circle is still relevant to the topic, just a little further away and instead focusing on other parts, like a text in green could be related to a text in red.
So, what do I think of the work I have done here? I think it's pretty played. It isn't exactly inspiring, except for the one part that I will get into later. The colours are nice though which is one thing I liked. I also like the broad range of topics here, though it could have been broader with more time I think we have a pretty good library of topics to choose from.
Was it successful? To a degree yes. The goal of these mind maps is to inspire me to get an idea of what I want to make, and although not everything on here inspired me, that's kind of the point of the mind map. Throwing things onto a wall and seeing what would stick, luckily one thing did stick.
If I were to come back to this, how would I develop this further? I feel like I would do a little research on what other people have said about what a journey is and put it there. I could touch more on personal stories or more literal journeys like destination to destination, or instead, I could do something like following a football team through the world cup, and I'm not even interested in football.
Is this something I would revisit in the future? I don't think I would revisit this specific mind map, but the next one I have made I will be revisiting since this is the topic I want to focus on for my topic of the journey. I will warn you though, it's sad.
This is what I wanted to talk about for this project. myself. That may sound selfish and it is, I am being selfish. But this isn't going to be a project that is going to be about the good things about me and my journey through life, I want it to be about the problems I have, and the difficult emotions I go through. Some may say this is a cry for help, but I am more than fine using my pain for my art. Some of these feelings are so personal I don't even feel comfortable talking about them yet, but I will soon, do not worry, it wouldn't even matter if this was a cry, nobody reads these until the end of the project.
So, what do I think of the work I have produced here? I think this is a lot more specific in what I am looking for since I wanted something I could pour my heart and my entire being into, so looking more at myself and my more negative journeys of worry, sadness, fear, and jealousy, is something I want to explore more. So despite the negative topic, I think this mind map is pretty good.
Was it successful? I think so absolutely. Looking at all of these problems and negative emotions has fuelled me to create pieces that speak from the deeper parts of my soul that I have only me, myself and I. I can already see the collection.
What would I do differently? I think I would have used more colours in this to make it more readable, along with going deeper into not only my negative stories but also my positive stories, things like my holidays, my friends I don't think I will meet again, my sister, my dog amongst other things that get me excited.
How could I develop this further? I would develop this by exploring only the negative side, to be honest since there is an awful lot there and I didn't really get into it there or even cover most of the topics there.
Is this something I would revisit? Absolutely. This will be my keystone for the next things I will do, and I want to stick to it.
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