I am very pleased with the feedback I received from my tutor for Assignment One.  My tutor said I write very well and am able to communicate my ideas, influences and creative ambitions.

The cyanotype colour works well as an emotive aid, evoking a sense of melancholy and turning everyday landscape scenes into something uncertain.  It also adds drama to the optical distortion and diffusion created in the cyanotype process which in turn adds to the sense of the uncanny and uncertainty.   The black graphics disturb the notion of the photograph depicting something that was once in front of the camera as well as offering a psychological gateway.

I am pleased to have achieved a balance between descriptive and analytical writing as feedback from previous modules has indicated that my content is a little light on the analytical aspect and this is something I have been consciously working on in response.

I have a list of follow up actions to work through:

• Include details of the creative process leading to submitted assignments
• Develop this assignment further by making physical cuts in the cyanotype prints rather than adding the black shapes digitally (due to time constraints I will carry this out at the end of the module prior to assessment)
• Investigate Ackroyd and Harvey who developed grass seed that could retain photographic impressions for a long time.  I have heard of this before and I have an idea surrounding grass for a later assignment so this will be useful research
• Look at Freund’s paper on the uncanny with a view to developing assignment one further
• Look at John Balldessari’s work using coloured dots
• Tidy up missing references and spelling in my learning log.  I have started to go through this and it is part of my standard workflow prior to assessment so I will continue to read back through previous submissions and amend as required.