Initially, I found the process daunting – putting my ideas out there on a public platform was intimidating and confronting. I’ve found the blog to be increasingly useful for me to reflect on my working practice and processes, in a similar vein to a sketchbook or reflective journal. It has been rewarding to look back on the blog posts and see my development and progress from the start.

Approaching Task 1 of the RCS blog, the passport project, ‘Trace’, I was keen to explore zine-making and experiment with the photocopier more. Through the manifesto project, I was able to develop this to a far greater extent – appropriating images and text, forming a collective, breaking apart and subsequently re-assembling, making over 400 zines and widely distributing them both publicly and anonymously across Winchester.

The blog has allowed a space for greater reflection and awareness of practice as well as theoretical aspects that have arisen in lectures that often link to aspects of my work.