WHAT LIES WITHIN

Following this I took my body of work as a whole and considered how to present it as a whole.

There are different parts to my work as it developed:

A2 The parts of a community closer up – A representation of cooperation and mutual benefit

A3 The apparent chaos but actual harmony of the woodland community. How diversity can be harmonious.

A4 What lies beneath the community when sleeping during winter months – a  representation of what can be versus what is in the local community

A5 Spring rebirth in the woodland community – A representation  of potential for healing within.

Stage 1.

I began with a padlet: https://oca.padlet.org/nicola514516/body-of-work-major-project-initial-draft-for-mock-up-of-book-qf3ehiyjgmy6bvh4

I used this as a virtual table to chose and order images.

Stage 2.

I created a dummy book as a 2 page spread in a pdf form. Once I switched to 2 page scrolling view, I was able to make further decisions. I repositioned my ‘Sum of its parts’ in the middle of the work, and attached lines of my poetry alongside the Chaos/harmony images. I was at this stage most uncertain about the signposting that I would use.

This was my 1^st draft of the dummy book. here

Stage 3.

Peer zoom hangout. The night after I was to submit my A5 draft to my tutor there was the opportunity for a zoom meeting ‘hangout’ with  a group of my peers and an opportunity to share my work. This was a valuable opportunity for further reflection so I took it. See my write up of the hangout and its impact here: https://nkssite6.photo.blog/category/body-of-work/bow-assignments/bow-assignment-5/bow-a5-peer-portfolio-review-oca-hangout/

I was particularly pleased that the 5:4 crop was commented on with approval, some thought the images fitted into a the fine art category, and the group were happy with the rich greens, as presented.

Stage 4.

I took some of the feedback given into my portfolio and book dummy and made changes as I reflected on the advice given. At the hangout we had a long discussion about the work and the images. There were some good challenges and suggestions which led me to:

• Rewrite the introduction for my portfolio and this as a slightly shortened version, to fit on one page of my book. I did this to include more context about how Contextual Studies has influenced this work, and to explain more fully the contrast in behaviours of the woodland and human communities.
• I maintained poetry for viewers to refer to alongside images
• I have numbered the images for easier reference in feedback, and possible further use.
• I checked all font is all the same.
• I will use the dummy book pdf in blog  but know that I should instruct viewers to go to 2 page scrolling view.

My own reflections:

To increase the flow and homogeny of the book I moved the ‘Sum of the parts’ images to being opposite the single larger images – this forms some signposting as well.

I removed all other signposting apart from the poetry.

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