Do you see any themes emerging across your work?
Looking back at my work between Studio and Seminar, my best pieces of work emerged from ideas in which I wanted to create an experience for the viewer or the reader, and I was at my best when I was really able to focus in on creating a space geared toward making the audience feel a certain emotion. When I revised my work, it helped to imagine myself in the reader’s shoes and build up an experience around what I wanted to feel. For example, my wall text for my memorial strongly improved when I peeled away the informational layers of writing, the purely descriptive sentences, and replaced them with phrases that brought an image into my mind. This was especially important to my memorial which was such an immersive piece conceptually. I often produced uncomfortable writing when I felt I needed to fill my voice in with information, in an almost factual way, and I was almost always better off when my work tried to evoke a certain emotion, such as nostalgia.
