Friday 17th September; the end of the two-week fashion & textiles rotation had arrived. It had been a very busy period, what with settling in to London life and getting to know all about the university and the people surrounding me, as well as becoming acquainted with 'freshers flu', which, to describe bluntly, is fucking terrible. Despite feeling as shabby as ever, i manned up and made it in to college, starting the day by putting our best pieces of work on the walls and on display for the rest of the group to browse. We got into groups, and then began presenting to each other; i felt this was a good task for getting to see how other people work, as well as comparing people's strengths and weaknesses to my own. After this, we each put our thoughts into who's work stood out in certain areas, what we liked about the pieces and what we have learnt overall. A basic exercise, but a very effective one; my end products - large continual and layered drawings, spread over different heights and widths of plain pages, with a sudden outlandish object in a different media appearing in a negative space area - really did showcase my journey from 2d to 3d, and back to 2d again. The drawings pulled out my strengths and illustrated the fact i had learnt that less is more. 
I started fairly pessimistic towards the Fashion and Textiles rotation from the fact i thought it was all fabrics and frocks, but i was incredibly wrong. From this rotation, i have learnt a new art to drawing and 'playing', and i really can see myself using similar, if not the same, skills in future rotations. Most importantly, i have enjoyed the past couple of weeks, and i'm more than sure there's more fun to be had over the weeks to come.


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