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october
31- november 1, 2001
The last two days of the workshop seemed to go by
very quickly.
The
last day was fantastic as well, it felt like the entire
workshop was leading up to this point. The begining
of the day was spent finishing up the group projets
(presenting a script involving the characters that
everyone created) Some of the projects were video,
others were perfomance and even one was a type of
board game.
John spend most of the remainder of the afternoon
sitting down with small groups of people to look at
indivdual portoflio and work created outside of the
workshop. It was insightful as always to have everyone
together sharing other work and ideas. Most of the
small groups quickly became larger groups as everyone
seeme to be very interested in each others work and
what could be said about it.
The nice thing about these particular informal conversations
was that they really seemed to help everyone put it
all in perspective. To see some of the ideas and inspirations
of the workshop applied to more practical, day to
day issues like presenting your portfolio and how
to think about your work on a more critical level,
enabling you to take it further than before. It is
interesting to note how much of the time we actually
know that our work is not our best work, we know that
w could be doing things much higher quality, but for
some reason we often do not push ourselves to go that
extra distance. I suppose that is hopefuly one of
the effects of the workshop on an indivdual: to leave
the experience renewed, refreshed, with a higher level
of understanding and motivation of their own work
so they can push themselves to create things that
are even more honest and truly representations of
themselves.
And of course the workshops don't really feel like
they are ending. Idealy they are simply a begining
to a much longer, more difficult and interesting journey
and exploration of yourself and your work.
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