Crossroads ii

The Foundation course has certainly changed my perspective of art and design. However, I think personally the most successful of the rotations has been Vis Com; being our first rotation the first two weeks highlighted how an idea can be made into a final outcome which, instead of being verbally expressed is uniquely portrayed in a creative and visual way. This really fascinated me as I'd never encountered this form/style of art prior to Foundation; this was further enhanced by the fact the rotation posed a challenge and questioned what I thought art and design meant. In our initial brief I encountered my first hurdle; everyone was assigned their own word, the task was to then identify as many associations that the word had. Trying to communicate the properties of a single word was certainly difficult but I think this is what interests me most about the subject area - stretching the imagination.
I suppose that another reaon for my interest in this specific area is the fact that my work was praised by David Batchelor, he identified in my work the quality of compostion and how the overall layout and presenation of my work was well expressed, which gave me a massive confidence boost.
Despite this being a rather likely area for my specialism the other rotations have also further illustrated the diversity of art and design. In 3D Spatial getting to grips with perspective took quite a while trying to locate the vanishing point was sometimes difficult. I enjoyed 3D as many aspects involved accuracy and taking your time both of which I like to do when drawing. The construction of the instillation pieces was really interesting especially since I'd never undertaken such a project previously.
Dominic Wilcox's area talk proved that certain subjects can overlap and that in fact there are many grey areas in which two or more subjects have a lot in common. In this respect he highlighted that design and art can be one in the same thing and so in many ways this set in stone the way I now percieve art. I now know that in the long term what I specialise in at Foundation may be completely different to what I go on to do at degree or even as a career.