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Final Practical Peer Review

Some interesting point raised in feedback.

Key parts:

• ‘Plenty of tests’
• ‘Work has repetition - just like the everyday’
• ‘Monoprints have a really effective ‘mood’ - lets viewer take away their own perspective’
• ‘Mixed media work is a step in the right direction…the everyday doesn't have to be all the same’
• ‘A full scene of people could be interesting - a larger documentation’
• ‘Maybe focus on other elements of what you are documenting…what can you hear? what can you smell?’
• ‘Homely, Silent, Nostalgic’

I believe the practical work has reached a point of making sense, of being whole and coherent without the aid of the essay when presented in the crit. I have ended up with quite a large amount of drawings, especially as I have been redrawing sketches from my sketchbooks in order to preserve some coherency in my final publication. 

I was really pleased with the 3 words that somebody put to sum up the work - Homely, Silent, Nostalgic. I think nostalgic particularly makes it relatable, allowing the viewer to picture their own life and past in relation to the drawings. This creates a connection between the work and the viewer, provoking an emotional response which I find very important.

The only think that I think lets the work down is the absence of the writing. This particular practical project I feel stands strongest when viewed alongside the ideas and theories I was researching. I think that in itself it is not the most explorative of projects, but instead illustrates the ideas presented in my essay, as it would in a book. There is not so much a clear journey in the work when viewed alone and perhaps the overall conclusion or observations get lost in this regard - one of the comments received questions ‘…what the author (you) concludes personally?’, which I think is covered in the writing more than the images. 

I cannot help but wish I had been more explorative with the work I made on this project. Especially visually, had I pushed that side more I think my concepts and ideas could have been portrayed a lot more effectively especially to an audience who does not have my writing accompanying the drawings for context and background information. 

Project Update, Compositions

• Collating the separate parts of the everyday into these 'final' compositions serves as an overview of my findings during this project. 
• It draws links between the waiting dictated by the daily commute and also by the prevalence of technology in times of waiting.
• Blurs the lines between where one part of the everyday starts and one part ends. ‘...simultaneously both everywhere and nowhere’ (J.Ebery, 2016).
• I think drawing back into these would be something to propose to take the work further, further evidencing the 'layers' and 'levels' of the everyday and how they are inherently and inescapably linked and connected. 

Project Update, Cars in Colour

• Pushing the car drawings further, taking into account the idea of different individuals and identities within the everyday.
• Despite the differences between the cars, there is still a common 'everyday' and structure of the commute. The routine and mundane not only brings the individuals together but is also inescapable, as is the social connections between all the individuals within society.
• The roads are emblematic of the structures dictated on the everyday but society as a whole.