I found her talk relevant and motivational; Mary mentioned Ken Garland and his First Things First manifesto which has played a significant part within my work since I discovered him during my first year, and as a result, I feel it will always have relevance within my practice. She urged the importance to have a manifesto, a statement of intent, a direction within our practice - or to unearth this idea if we hadn't already, as it would shed great enlightenment on our discipline. The talk was driven by the idea of constantly questioning (your/my) work; what is it about? Who is it for? Why?
The talk was followed by a workshop where we were asked to re-produce an issue of 'Making Do' named 'Translation'. We were to use the original publication as a starting point and encouraged to think about form, structure, collaboration, production as well as content. As a group we produced a series of 5 postcards that represented 5 areas of the original publications content. The purpose of utilising the postcard was that it is a form of transportation of communication, a means to translate a visual experience into a written form.
