My body of work, Mu (無) Part 1, reflects my research question by exploring the space between movement and stillness through street photography, cyanotype, hand stitching, rice paper, and installation.

In Life in Pieces, Melanie Meggs explores chronic illness, memory loss, and identity through sculpture and AI-generated video, examining survival as an ongoing negotiation with a body forever altered.

This week I was working right up to the deadline, and it was at this point that I genuinely thought I might not finish the installation in time.

James Rhodes is a Newcastle interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and teacher at Newcastle Art School whose practice examines photography as a physical and spatial object rather than simply a two-dimensional image.

The repetitive act of passing needle and thread through the paper introduced a meditative process that mirrored the themes of the project.

As the project developed, I moved away from my original proposal. Material testing, conceptual refinement, and making processes led me to replace the noren curtain and timber grid with a unified installation.

The unmoulding revealed the suspended photographic layers and the slight shifts between them, which created the visual instability I had been aiming for.

This week, the concrete pedestal begins and is finalised for Life in Pieces.

The following week, the next step was to begin cutting each cyanotype so they could be fitted into the orange safety barrier fencing.

Over seven days I focused on sealing all of the cyanotype rice papers so they would be strong enough to handle, glue, stitch, and eventually install.

This topic explores creativity as an active, ongoing process rather than a simple moment of inspiration.

Staying focused is not about removing uncertainty completely, but about creating enough structure, support, and motivation to keep returning to the work.

The school break became less of a break and more of an intensive production period that allowed the project to move forward at the scale I needed.

This week focuses on understanding the studio as both a creative and working environment.

Artists use machine learning to generate images, extend photographic and digital processes, construct speculative worlds, analyse data, automate movement, and create responsive installations.

The second attempt on the making of the resin head proves a success.

The studio environment plays an important role in the creative process because it is more than just a physical place where art is made.

New decision to add a second video into the installation to communicate the internal frustration and physical tension held within the body.

Sound is a powerful part of video and moving image work because it can shape how an audience feels before they fully understand what they are seeing.

Sound plays an important role in the visual arts by adding another layer to how we experience a work.