FMP Smarter Research 5th March

Smarter Research 5th March

Today was very much about evaluation, with a quick catch up of everyone's project. After each person finished telling us where they were up to, we could get some feedback and advice on what we could look at next and what we might not have thought about.

Once I had explained my project, I could get some feedback from the others. A lot of things like going and seeing the jewellery shops and asking questions to the designers, were first to come up. These were all things I planned to do on the weekend.

With the group giving each other new ideas and paths to follow, I had many different ideas to keep my project going for years, let alone months. Things like looking at the fashion industry, to how objects can have identity in themselves.

From the talk, I liked the idea of looking at how portrait artists have tried to capture the personality of the person they are painting or drawing. Throughout the centuries, from kings and queens of old, to modern day caricatures, they all have represented someone, but also captured the subject's personality. Research in how they do this and the different ways they try and find out the hidden traits of each person, will help me in doing the same.

The other thing I need to look closely at is the contextual side of my work. I have been researching artists that aren't modern, but I could go back a bit further and look in the past how jewellery was a lot more about personality and identity. With some being religious, and some being very much about an identity of a tribe or group.

Another aspect of someone's personality are the clothes they wear. This is indication of their taste, style and individuality. It can indicate someone's creativity. The wearer can customise and choose pieces to bring out something that represent themselves, be it loud and bold, or smart and calm.

Today has been very useful for me. Having time to reflect, but also getting others thoughts and ideas. I have many different things to research. I would love to have the rest of the project just to do that. There are so many things I could look into, I think that in the future I'll have to come back and continue.