When I was applying for this MA, I remember compiling my portfolio. It had a smattering of this and that. I loved many forms of art and I was not ashamed to stuff them all into my portfolio. But even as I compiled it I knew what I lacked: a voice. An individual, unique form of art that represented me as an artist. I guess that is one of the primary things I was searching for when I began this program. I have to admit something. Growing up, I had the WORST art teachers. This is partly the reason that …
Category: UNIT 1
A category under which all the blogs I wrote during Unit 1 of the MA can be found.
2.5D animation: First attempt
Right after that fateful MPR day we had a pop-up art show happening in the Camberwell College common room. At first I was mopey and didn’t want to submit anything, but Janet’s email got me going and I decided to leave the current WIPs and move onto something I had been waiting to try for a long time: 2.5D animation. It took some research to figure out that I could use a combo of old photoshop and blender to create these animations for free. Blender LOOKED extremely difficult; way too many buttons and things and it took a few tutorials …
Post-MPR reflections
Wow, this is long overdue. The MPR was… overwhelming to say the least; the days preceding it, the actual day and the days that came after. Sharing my art and the thought processes behind it, succinctly I might add, was simply nerve-wrecking, and after the MPR was over I felt spent. There was a bout of demotivation that was very unsettling. Previously we had only ever assessed our actions and thoughts out loud during one-on-one tutorials and that hadn’t been scary because we were talking to our advisor. And Jonathan has this way of making you feel like everything you’re …
A record of MPR comments from my classmates
[13/03/2018, 11:43:56] Jonathan Kearney: Kehkashan next http://kehkashankhalid.com/mid-point-review-presentation [13/03/2018, 11:44:04] Kehkashan Khalid: sorry if i spoke really fast guys 😐 [13/03/2018, 11:44:38] Steph Bebbington: you speak so fast 🙂 !! Lol [13/03/2018, 11:45:03] VIVIAN / 林梓欣: quite fast but can capture the flow [13/03/2018, 11:45:06] Nadine Theuma: Kehkashan Your work is embedded in history and craft. I particularly like the fact that you are giving your work a three dimensional space . Taking it a step further and maybe using algorithms to create the ‘mosaic’ would also be interesting. [13/03/2018, 11:45:15] Iris Wong: I slow it down when I watched ytd lol [13/03/2018, 11:45:33] …
MPR — A log of my comments
Part of the midpoint review was to watch the videos my classmates had made and to comment on and discuss their work. While watching the videos I wrote my comments into a notebook and then typed them into Skype in real time. Now I’m just posting them on this blog so that everyone can go over them. The objective of my comments was to convey how I felt about the current work and help my classmates find things that could potentially inspire them and give them ideas for the future. Here are the comments I had for each video: JANET …