Review material and spatial aspects of your working practices. Are your working conditions supporting you as best as they can be? Do you have the resources, access to time, materials, peer support and external engagement that you and your projects need to creatively progress? 

Articulate your progress clearly and concisely including any obstacles, areas needing action and strategies to help overcome these. 

Record your findings in your learning log.

This exercise poses interesting questions thinking of any obstacles, areas which need actions and strategies I might use to overcome these areas of concern. It is something I will return to in the coming weeks and months.

My working conditions seem to me to be fine although of course time is always an issue. I am building a collection of artworks which are meaningful to me and which could be used in my final submission. There is more work to be done especially as regards the see-saw which imagine at the centre of my exhibition and I need to consider which materials and processes to use for the wooden board. I bought this piece of scaffold to use to test my ideas. I had hoped to start my tests in the past few weeks but there has been a succession of yellow warnings for heavy rain and so I have yet to start my tests.

At the start of this unit, I marked down in my list of new skills to develop, sound and video production. As my work in 3.3 has been progressing I have not added either of these aspects to my practice, not because I am not interested in these areas, but because this didn’t feel right for me at this time and for this iteration of my project. However, having said that, I have been investigating applying for a grant for my artist’s residency in Italy to help cover my travel, accommodation and time costs. I have made contact with Creative Scotland who have provided very helpful advice and have confirmed that as a part-time student, I am eligible to apply for funding provided the proposed activity is unrelated to my academic studies. It might be that when I put in a funding request that sound comes back to the fore to introduce some separation between my academic studies and my major project and with my continues interest in death studies and in the investigation of memorial and attitudes towards death in another country.