Wire-framing myself
The fear I had with starting this website framework after the research project was very different. Moving from an academic/focused week of research it felt like a lot of the research methods needed to be internalised and I needed to figure out how this website would reflect me, my work and the things I had to offer.
Looking for inspiration for this was different, since the pandemic began, the internet became a source of all kinds of information and there was a lot of interaction with a variety of different sites, both good and bad and so many new sites were being created and shared.
We were shown a beautiful example of a site created by a previous student and it was difficult to not be intimidated by the quality and creativity behind it. One of the things that particularly stood out for me, aside from the high quality of work, was the lovely picture of the student on the home page.
While I love photographing nature and the outdoors, I had never been on the other side of the camera aside from the happy snap selfie out at an event or funny home pictures. The thought of needing this on a site wasn’t something I was prepared for and definitely got my palms a little sweaty. Especially after being indoors for a year and stress eating my feelings in the form of Oreos, I was not camera-ready. After some thought, I realised that that having a picture introducing my work wasn’t representative of me or who I am. I have always wanted to let my work speak for itself and chose to use a personal illustration to open my home page. After all, I didn’t really create my face, but I did create art.
And maybe that’s all I needed it to be, me.
There’s no guarantee this won’t change, I’ve definitely grown a lot in a short space of time, and maybe when this site is further along, I could have my face plastered on every page.
Watch this space.
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