Nicola South Student number 514516

REFLECTIONS ON FORMATIVE FEEDBACK

Tutor report: This was a video feedback session followed up with written feedback:

MY REFLECTIONS:

It was an extremely useful session. We looked at work on my blog. I went through the photos and explained my work, as set out in my learning log and my reflections on my images. Jayne responded and posed questions to enable me to reflect further.

I was pleased that my Tutor could sense in my images the positive and nurturing environment of the ancient woodlands. We discussed the concept behind my using the woodlands as a visual metaphor for community and I explained that I am interested in representation, different ways of seeing.

The strand that wove throughout for me was the need to get to the essence of my message/ meaning of my work, and the need to provide an entry point for my viewers so that they can access this.

ACTION POINTS:

• Form a working title to focus my photographing
• Work on clarifying the why and how of my concept
• Consider methods I could use to signpost my concept and meaning- and entry point for viewers to my implicit meaning (with or without text).
• Collect found text, academic and other on community.
• Try photographing in sets: Fungi, lichen, ferns
• Try increasingly using perspective or sense of scale to distort.
• Research the way these subjects have been represented by others
• Research Gayle Chong Kwan’s work: https://autograph.org.uk/archive-collections/gayle-chong-kwan
• Research Tree (hayward Gallery), fungi exhibitions (Somerset House), books, podcasts and films and the suggested: https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Mushroom-at-the-End-of-the-World-by-Anna-Lowenhaupt-Tsing/9780691220550
• Research Wolfgang Tillmans, Edward Weston (Images and writings)
• Clarify whether I should be reflecting against the learning objectives or the assessment criteria and which is the correct assessment criteria (Contact Dan Robinson)

I’m now feeling inspired and ready to photograph and research again.

Next post: https://nkssite6.photo.blog/category/research/reading/woodland-reading/trees/