3rd year,coming to a close.

Well it's almost the end of 3rd year, all we have left is grading and grading and more ...grading.But what a year it has been.

None of our work at this point has been officially assessed yet, so as assessment day is looming here we find all the lovely 3rd years in superdrive mode, well most of us anyway(haha). One of our presentations will be based in the corridor, this work will be assessed on both use of presentation skills and the actual work we have created;this can be any project of our choice. The rest of our work is meant to be presented, simply, but effectively with all our work accessible for our tutors to look through, with ease inside our studio space. As space is limited within the studio this can still be quite a task.

Dissertation feedback and my assessment both fall on Wednesday the 5th of May. Stressful times, but one must keep on going.

Thankfully my presentation work is almost finished...*breathe a sigh of relief* but there can never be enough sketchbook work so onwards with sketch booking. That is a never ending task, therefore never will I be able to say I am finished when it comes to the work within these little artist booklets.

The project I chose to put out in the corridor space, is the narrative project.

'tea for two.'

With Love Vanity Fades.

Prep for photo etching my two silver brooches. This narrative project keeps on changing and evolving, it's been great yet stressful, as there are so many ideas floating about but I guess this is just the nature of the beast with narrative work... always leading us in many directions.Narrative and I are going to be good friends nonetheless. I just hope the finish of these brooches is as perfect as it seems to be in my head.I am hoping to photo etch these images onto two separate brooches, but so that they can be worn side by side or individually. The lighting in the UV light box is going to be most critical part, in the perfect execution of this project. To try and pick up as much detail as possible, without leaving it in for too many seconds so that the light floods the images and the detail is lost, is not an easy task.I have set myself a difficult challenge, but exciting nonetheless!!With only a few days left of this project before the jewelllers head to inhorgenta, it's busy times all round. Hopefully the Munich scenery will also set me up for some more promising source project work. I have the upmost and honest intentions to get more source done but it's just the other projects keep on stealing away my attention. I'll fix that soon I promise.

...With Love Vanity Fades...