Tag: sadness

Q: At this moment, what aspect(s) of your thesis are you most excited about, and why? 

A: Researching and learning and making and failing crying and creating! I can’t wait to keep digging into the concept of sadness and watch my project surface. As of now, I’m not sure what direction it will take – every article I read gives me a different idea – but that’s what’s so exciting to me right now – the unknown.

Q: At this moment, what aspect(s) of your thesis are you most concerned about, and why? 

A: The unknown! She shows up again!

I’m keeping this at the very forefront of my my mind in order to get myself to STOP being so worried about it – I’m most concerned because I don’t know what this will end up looking like. I haven’t done many projects like this. I know a lot of that fear is just my past knowledge of what people have made for theses and the fact that I’m a designer. My fine arts/conceptual self/writer brain has fallen out of use so I don’t usually work this way. But this is a growth opportunity, and one I know I need to latch onto.

Q: What can you do in order to alleviate your concerns, your answers to question 2 above, and how will that help you?

A: Just keep researching. I need to narrow down a direction soon so that I can continue researching. I want to get surveys out to people so I can learn more about the population (whatever that means. Winthrop students? Rock Hill? South Carolina?) and what they think of sadness. Maybe I’ll make a collaborative sad music Spotify playlist. I don’t know. I need to dig deeper personally, too. I should probably write about my own experiences so that I can work through them. I should figure out how I would define sadness and then learn how others define it. How does sadness sound? How does it smell? How does it taste? How big is it?

Q: Five years from now, when you look back on your Thesis, what do you want people to say about it, and why? 

A: That it made them think, and hopefully that it made them feel. I think making people feel something is one thing that helps makes a design “good.” It’s hard, but I want to try it – I don’t want to just make something pretty. What’s the point?

Q: What do you want to say about your thesis five years from now, and why?

A: That I was able to take a weird, vague, incredibly personal concept and turn it into something visual, whatever that looks like. Or sounds like or smells like. Who knows? I want to explore sadness in a way I haven’t explored it before. I hope I can do that.

I also want to say that I had a lot of fun and didn’t take myself too seriously (even though I’m talking about sadness).