I’ve been putting off this particular blog post for the whole week. We got asked to write about our expectations for the course. To be really honest I didn’t have any. I had little to no idea what I would be getting myself into when I signed up other then that I was sure I would be launching myself far, far out of my comfort zone and because that scares me, it’s always a good thing.

Anyway it’s two am, I’m currently nocturnal, and desperately unfiltered trying to live a life doing every crazy thing that pops into my head, which might be why I took this course. To take a small detour, we hark back to the reason that I even started uni in the first place. To push myself, to learn things that I didn’t already know how to do. In my course we got offered three studio options and if I’m being honest I didn’t really feel like I had anything to gain from doing the other two. They were skills that either I already intimately understood, or didn’t feel were relevant to my creative expansion. Soft Choreography however promised me two things. Number one; it would be about video making, a medium which I love but desperately need to improve and expand my skills in. Number two; the rules would be broad. Exploring concepts which evoked feelings and gaps and things that could not be defined seemed right up my alley way as someone who likes to think so radically outside the box, the box is being held back at customs or something. That metaphor landed wrong, but the point is me and the box are mortal enemies.

So even one week in I really don’t have any expectations of the course. And I think that’s a good thing. It allows me to approach every challenge with no predetermined outcome, it allows me to not fail expectations I prematurely set up, it allows me to grow with no limit. So I’m going to continue having no expectations. Going in I’m going to endeavour to in Neil Gaiman’s words “make good art”, I’m going to continue feuding with the box, I’m going to make blog post reflections on this incredibly messy blog that looks like twelve year old me themed it but brings me great joy. And hopefully, maybe somewhere along the way I will also learn something.

references: Neil Gaiman 2012 Commencement Speech “Make Good Art” 2012, streaming video, Lennie Ann Alzate, Philadelphia, viewed 28 July 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plWexCID-kA