Today’s workshop was eye opening in a very interesting way. I started out the workshop enjoying the creative very much, but as I looked around at other classmates’ work, I became very insecure in my own. I started realizing I wasn’t thinking as creatively as I should, and that my work was not on the level as other students’ in the class. I kind of became really lost with this assignment because I did not think I interpreted it correctly.

After lunch and putting some reflection and thought into my work so far, I came back to the classroom and made some big changes. I started interpreting the workshop via an aesthetic that is close to my personality and interests, and slowly, my work began to “pull it’s weight” a little more. It wasn’t amazing but every workshop doesn’t have to be amazing. The purpose of diagnostic is to figure out what you like and don’t like, what you’re good and not good at. If we were all amazing at every single workshop then it would be very challenging specialising. 

In the end, I learned a cliche but valuable lesson nonetheless, I cannot continue to compare my work to others, I really need to stay true to the work that is most representative of my own personal style and interests because that will tell the tutors and the world the most about me. Although I didn’t enjoy the workshop very much, I learned a lot about myself, and how I should work going forward in order to avoid comparing my work to others’ again.