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My first month in foundation gave me the opportunity to uncover my strengths in areas of the course but also difficulties on which I hope improving on work harder on them. I learned a lot not only from the tutors and the different guests that came each week, but also from all the students surrounding me. The structure of this course, it's intensity and the freedom that we have in it, are pleasing me so much.

This is the first year for me studying in England, and I needed to adapt to quite a few things.

Being not used to speak and write that much English, I was at first really stressed about workflow and all the writing behind it. But with the time I feel that my writing in English is improving and it also becomes easier to write. The Images in the research part help me a lot, also because I really enjoy doing research on the projects but it is also necessary to me. As I am often choosing a specific inspiration for each week’s theme, I love going deep in it and explore all the different ways to create out of it.

I always tried to connect the project theme to something close to me, as a memories or something that is a part of me.The project that I enjoyed doing the most was the deconstruction of an garment, There isn't one thing in this week that I didn't like. It was amazing to see how actually complicated that blazer was to make and assemble, and how many parts it had. While deconstructing it, I found a lot of pleasure discovering each different part of its consistency. It was a process that was also very meditating and reflective, because you are so deeply concentrate.The whole process really inspired me for the final design of my garment, starting from the noises that the fabric made while detaching it, where I could hear the sound of the screams of birds.To the threads that came out and made me thinks of very thin bones that has the skeleton of that animal.

The Bianca Saunders project I felt was highly strenuous, despite this the outcome was a certain victory in my eyes. My worries on this project started when I heard that it was going to be an textile project. I never really tried to do a project only about creating textiles coming from my own decisions , and always preferred to work on three dimension shapes on the body rather then creating Two dimensions on a textiles. I was feeling unprepared, still not knowing how to sew properly and ignoring a lot about knitting and fabrics, the garments that I create have always been made out of unexpected materials that I would attach with glue, clay, honey and many more experimental materials. But I decide just to go crazy on it, do a lot of experiments on it and enjoy it by doing what I love. Even if Bianca’s style was really different from mine, I sticked to it and go extreme with my textile.

For each project that I start, I connect it to a theme that matters to me, that has a certain symbol .As we needed to be inspired by our background for this one, I decided to work on the eyes. Being a body part that symbolizes a lot to me : Ida meaning the third eye in old German. I have always been fascinated by the eyes, doors to the soul, but also the tools that permit us to have visual memories. However, the main reason why I chose to work on this part of the body is because of my grandfather, and him having a Cataract but refusing to remove it, afraid of loosing sight. Which is why I dedicated myself to represent him loosing his eyes and his memories at the same time. It was delicate thing for me to choose to work on such an important person to my eyes and transform his suffering in textiles, but it was a way to make it impossible for me to fail or produce something irrelevant.

The Paul Kindersley gender project gave us more freedom compared to the previous weeks and, even if I’ve always preferred working alone, I did really enjoy working in a group. Our final outcome wasn't as I imagined it would be, but I think that the aim of It was more about developing working relationships between my peers and I.

But having ended the project feeling unsatisfied with my outcome, I felt the need to make more out it and chose to rework it for the What's the point project. I was massively inspired by that theme, it is so vast and rich. I really wanted to rework it as a solo project. So, I decide to use flowers as my main subject, being both at the same time male and female. It was by far my favorite period of working, Yet, I did miss the more prescriptive task brief given us in the class as well as the short time limits. I am highly excited at the thought of returning on Friday to receive the next assignment.

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