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Turning back

For over a month I was trying to figure out what is wrong with the project and what I want to achieve.
It was all very confusing and I kept coming back to the starting point...

I have hit the bottom at my progress review where I couldn't make any sense out of my work and would not listen to the tutors that I already have everything I am looking for in my tiles from December....

I am a very stubborn person and it is useful when I need to get over the technical problems in my projects but sometimes it works against me. I have continued to work with my 'new' idea and one day I just noticed that it really does not work!!

When I wrote down what I want from this project I have finally realized that it is all in the tiles already...

So after many wasted weeks I am back in the studio working away on my new models and moulds- will keep the shapes from the first semester but they will be bigger now.

I have the update on the tiles - finally got some time to take good photos :)









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Location: Limerick, Ireland

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