ORALS

1. What did you learn about your work and yourself during orals?

I learned a lot! I realized for my orals i put the wrong work up, so my thesis might have seemed all over the place. I want my thesis to be not straight forward, but a little more focused as far as content goes only. My work can be very elusive, more than i thought. The self portraits that other people are doing of me are a side project, not part of my thesis. What i learned about myself---i need to be more myself during public speaking i got too nervous and uptight and i'm not like that at all. I know now what my thesis is more than ever and i know what i'm truely interested in as far as what to make next.

2. What questions do you wish you had been asked that none of the faculty asked you?

I felt like i was talking more about the contemporary context of my work rather than the work itself which was annoying. At times i felt like it got kind of crit-ticky rather than just an oral.
I wish the questions were harder and worded more thoughtfully, i felt like the questions were so standard and so they were irritating.

Questions that pertain more to how my work works or does or its interworkings:
a.) What is the relationship of the materials you chose for each piece in relation to the next piece?
b.) What is the relationship of the materials you've chosen to your subject matter?
c.) What about psuedoscience interests you?
d.) How and Why do you talk about the future in your work when you use materials like rainbow yarn and cut paper?
e.) Can you elaborate more on the role of the self portrait in your work?
f.) What is the emotional content in your work if there is any?

3. What do you think is your strongest idea right now?

Making work that deals with metaphysical issues through a science fiction point of view
Staged Photography and making props is a good idea

4. What is the strongest part of your process or technique?

Strongest part in my technique is the technical know how to construct hand made objects and to do it well. I work with paper and crafty material very well. The strongest part in my process is that i consider all the possible options to carry out an idea/visual image. Strongest Parts in my work overall- visually innovative and engaging

5. What are the weak spots in your work right now?

Clarity

6. How do you intend to address those weak spots?

Focus! Weed out Side projects! Concertrate only on certain types of spaces, symbols and images!

7. What needs to be edited or transformed and how will you do it?

I dont want to answer this question in words, still figuring that out as i go along with each new project.