Today in class:

I did an exercise which needed me to execute certain exercises which helped me organize my material for future practice and future reference.

Exercise One:

I brought into class all the images I had previously collected through my research trip to the picture gallery of the New York public library.

I then divided these into individual categories in order to get an overview of the material I had collected too.

This exercise helped me understand which sort of images I seemed to have been drawn to, as well as understanding a sense of connection between the individual categories.

My categories were:

– Grotesque

– Geometric

– Detai/Ornaments

– Color Blocking

– Psychadelic

– Volume/Drapery

I then partnered up with another class mate and repeated this process, ordering his images into my categories and creating new categories/adding to the ones that existed: for example Detail became Detail/Ornaments.

This part of the exercise really helped me see that the categories I created were universally usable and also showed me how diverse images can be even if they fall under the ‘same’ category so to speak.

I then wrote down inspirational words, which were relevant to my categories, as well as a view short sentences each which described the category. This was helpful, as if again helped to foster my understanding of which images I was most drawn to, as well as investigate in further detail, what it was exactly that drew me to these images. It also helped me to generate ‘mini categories’ to look into when executing foster research.

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