After receiving the immensely positive feedback from my COP2 project and essay, I am really excited to begin my research for third year and get stuck into an area of focus that seems to have everyone including myself intrigued and eager to know more. Since COP2, I have had a lot of friends and family sending me interesting articles and artistic projects surrounding the recent re-surfacing of Psychedelia, the interest has been more than I could have ever imagined and this has given me the confidence to carry on pursuing my topic and hopefully make something really worthwhile come from it.
I am very aware at this early stage how broad my topic is and how varied my approaches to it could end up being, therefore I think now is the time to start narrowing my focus with the help of careful research, considerations and decision making. I covered a lot in my COP2 project and the last thing I want to do is go down a path I have already covered. COP3 to me is the opportunity to now be concise and uncover new and interesting avenues in which I can do justice with my dissertation as well as respond to visually in an interesting and engaging way.
To Do
• Be reflective of my COP2 feedback. COP3 is continuing on from the same topic, therefore I need to learn from any mistakes made and address areas for improvements and new possibilities for taking this project further.
• Go over previous ideas. I had a huge amount of varied ideas for COP2 (mainly for visual responses to my topic) that I never visited or even touched upon. It may be good to have a look at some of these and begin exploring any that could hold potential for COP3.
• Continue documenting research, findings and thoughts on my blog. This can remain broad until further direction has been received by way of my COP3 proposal feedback
• Wait for COP3 feedback from Richard
• Respond to & answer this feedback. Begin new avenues of research - both academically and visually.
• Get involved. My topic is quite personal to me for a lot of reasons and another element to my research could be what I find out first hand. I am interested to know about peoples experiences with psychedelic substances, positive and negative, creative or not and gain better knowledge of its place within society. This could take the form of another more in depth survey, asking the public the questions I want to know answers too. I am also attending a festival in a few weeks where I plan on sitting in on various talks on the subject and could speak to organisers and festival goers about their personal thoughts and opinions.
• Mindmap more concise avenues for further research and new ways to push this project forward. This should help me to think outside of the box and unlock the potential for new and interesting ideas
• Start new COP3 sketchbook and begin to respond to my new findings creatively.
• GET IDEAS DOWN
