Studio update 26/01/12

 This I can explain, but it doesn't seem natural.

This I can't, but it comes easily.
Edith used the word 'forced', and she was right.
By presenting my process in this way I thought I was making it clearer for myself to explain. But by doing this, I was taking away the process itself and showing it as something other, and less genuine, so what I would be explain actually would be there anymore.
The reasoning that lead me to present in this way initially was that I wanted to translate an incredibly convoluted and complicated project into something explainable and concise. I didn't stop to consider that perhaps it doesn't need to be this way, and if convoluted and complicated are the ways that I work then it would be unnecessary and untrue to present my work as anything other.
The decision to rethink and rearrange my work for assessment was not taken on my own initiative, but I believe now that it is the right one. My work has been quite insular up to this point and it was necessary, and continues to be necessary for me to have this outside input in order for me ot understand what I'm seeing.