Tuesday 6th September (When we realised we had lessons till 8:30pm)

So today it was a fairly straight forward day. To start of with we were asked to bring in 5 objects that cover different parts of society that will represent our ideal Utopia. We were also given a small passport looking sketchbook, I think it was from MUJI because it had Japanese characters on the label... Anyways in this small sketch book we had to fill up every page with ideas in sketches of what our Utopia will include or what it could potentially look like when we come around to make them on Friday.

So back to the 5 objects we had to bring in. I brought in an instruction manual from Call Of Duty to represent that my Utopia will be a world without war. 

“War is what happens when language fails.”

― Margaret Atwood

I feel that when most countries go to war or when counties have a civil war amongst themselves is because one side had opinions or made decisions that may have offended the opposition. In times like these a fight should not be the first resort it should be a last resort, i mean when there is no other option in the book. We should all learn to be rational in the decisions we make...unless that person rightfully deserves justice.

My next object was an ankh necklace to represent religion amongst a society. Religion nowadays is the main cause to the wars in this day and age. So in my Utopia, regardless of your faith or who or what you believe in, people will learn how to live together and not force any religion or faith upon one another in a negative manor. As a society we should be helping one another to strive to be the best at what we do and help make the world a better place to live in.

I also brought in 100 Naira, a currency that my country (Nigeria) uses. Money as much as we need it could bring people happiness, or sorrow or stress depending on your situation. When i went back to Nigeria i remembered that the conversion rate is ridiculous and because of this its making life harder for those in extreme condition.

I brought in a Job application because I feel that jobs are much harder to get these days especially with racism and favoritisms it put some individuals at risk, mostly ethnic minorities. Growing up in south London it becomes clear that the reason why "some' people form gangs or become rebellious towards society is because they find it difficult to earn money legitly. I say some because some people are just lazy and do turn to that lifestyle because its simply easy money and they do not want to work for it.

Later on during the day we were asked to draw one of our items in a set time limit, I cant remember how long we had, all i know is that it was not long at all!"XD". Okay pretty standard stuff. We were then asked to make pick another item that we brought in and  look at it for 30 seconds and then draw it with our eyes closed...WHAT??...It didn't turn out well i didn't even know what i made in the end. Just know that it was supposed to be a book.

We were then asked to draw another object but this time by simply looking at the object and not at the pencil or paper...it wasn't bad but my initial reaction was "OMG WHAT HAVE I DONE". We were then asked to draw the shadow that our object creates but only by shading. I think that was the second task that made sense to me. 

Just when we thought it was all over we had to make one of our objects out of the A1 piece of paper we were given...Yeah i didn't finish it on time. But by the end of it all i was beginning to understand what our tutors were getting us to understand.

Sometimes when you're creating something the end product is not the most important bit. Its the journey that we take to get there. In these sort of tasks what we want may not be what we end up making, sometimes ideas will fail but we have to learn to improve upon it and find different ways to get the final result.

Don't be afraid  make mistakes.