Sheffield Hallam

Do art works need to be titled?

How should the title refer to the artwork?

Should it give some sort of insight?

What makes a good title?

I’m really having a lot of trouble titling my final piece. I do not want to leave it untitled or state that its title is ‘untitled’.

Every option I think up seems to give too much away or nothing. I am having difficulty seeing where I lie, and ideally I would like to solve this problem by the end of the week.

Not really much work today, once again catalogue work. Seems to be pretty close to completion though.

I’m having to clear all my work out of the studios, I’ve only got left my most recent work.

I really need to start writing onto my drawings but I’m so nervous and so precious about them. Therefore, tonight and tomorrow I’m going to work on my text so I can start writing and merging image and text.

It’s a bit annoying that it is bank holiday Monday and that voting is on Thursday. I’m going to have to work my way around all of this some how.

”’ i’ll meet you where we first met. perhaps you’ll say everything is the same as it was then. i won’t believe you because i know it isn’t”’

I think I’ve finally found the solution.. I have to draw like I mean it, like every ounce of my being is in each drawing.

When I am sloppy I create things I hate, things which I am not proud of.

I think next week will be good for me. I will have to work at home because I can’t be in the studio. But I think that the change of scenery will be good, I will be able to relax and concentrate more. – That is the hope anyway.

My tutor seems to have been insisting on mini tutorials. I don’t know whether it is because he cares or because he thinks I need it. I hope it is the former, because I don’t want to be pitied.

I feel confident enough to create significant works, I just have a longing to go beyond. I don’t want to fizzle out, is that too much to ask?

and I finally realised that I had melted into a shadow in your life and you had fallen into a footnote in mine.

Everything you said now only related to something I had done.

And to you, everything I did just seemed like a faded memory.

My paper has changed colour, because I’m using a thicker roll. I hope this doesn’t matter or isn’t very obvious.

I am not reproducing my work. It defeats the purpose, each piece is made in that piece of time you can’t repeat what you felt then.