most exciting things that came up:

• the notion of passage of time and decay 

There’s something so fragile and beautiful and poetic about rust. As it grows, it also works towards its own death. It expands the base material into nothingness. 

• fragmentation, bits and pieces together as a whole

during my research i found looking at big pieces of rusted metal, get boring. There was more for me to find in the details, so i sectioned it off and searched for the compositions that spoke to me. This fragmentation is what i want to discover further. 

• hide and seek with composition

Similar to the above statement, the idea that an interesting interplay of pattern, colour and shape is hidden in a big, monotonous piece, intrigues me. what initiates this finding vs hiding, what makes it hidden? how can one seek?

• letting go of control 

When experimenting, i tried really hard to predict and speculate outcome. Some methods were more predictable than others, but there was always a sense of uncertainty whenever I unraveled my tests and experiments. There was always an amount of surprise. As a contextual designer with background in graphic and ecological design, I often focus on the knowns and the scientific side of things, but I found there was beauty in the unruly. 

• Scaling up and daring to do so

I think, still, one of my main steps of action should be that I turn away from small-scale experiments and evolve towards physically building up big-scale projects. Instead of getting lost in the trial and error of models, thumbnails, poetic thoughts, I should get out there and try. I think i do it too little but it’s getting better as I’m progressing through the course. Still, there’s this hesitation whenever I reach the point that upscaling becomes the natural way forward. I want to kind of create a way where that hesitation doesn’t become an excuse to delve into different pathways, and instead becomes an initiator to train my legs to jump over, or make stilts or whatever it takes to get over that bump in the road. The “exhibition today already felt as a small manifestation of it, and i felt really satisfied with it (for now)