「Reflect Writing」Tutorial with Victoria Ahrens

The development of the work is a process by idea——research——experiment——outcome. Last term I started the experiment under the lack of theme.

Now I've basically established my theme : "how to use jewelry to express the pain from childhood trauma？ " But there are still a lot of issues that need to be considered. For example: which kind of childhood trauma? I should chose one specific area. How to express trauma? From abstract ideas to figurative forms/patterns/events. So Victoria suggested me to do the relevant research with the identification of the idea.

In the process of tutorial, we had a chat about the word "Hidding", which I found very interesting. This is about how to show the form of childhood trauma, I began to think, there is no way for people to say this pain because they hide this pain, "hiding inside"

Next Step：

Find some artists or jewelry designers who have done work on similar topics (she recommended an artist called Paula Rego). Then look for books about describing childhood trauma (continue reading about Freud's theory). Make a mindmap about Childhood and find the specific direction you want to do. Find some myths fairytale as the background of the story.