Looking back at my decisions in the project so far, I find that my way of thinking is one-dimensional instead of thinking from a more diversified perspective.
I began with the problematic employment of art graduates, and I analysed the reasons for it. Then I found that it’s a complicated problem that contains many different reasons, from policy, personality, education to society etc. But for a one year MA project, I cannot solve all of these problems, and I have to start at one point.
Then the process becomes to:
- One of the reasons is the lack of professional understanding when choosing a major, so I want to create a platform to help art students better understand their major before choosing their major.
- It is difficult for art graduates to sell their paintings on the Internet because they cannot run commercial accounts. Therefore, I want to make a booklet to help them run commercial accounts on social platforms.
- They couldn’t sell the paintings because the audience didn’t resonate, so I tried to strengthen the audience’s resonance through multi-sensory.
I find my way of thinking is very direct, point-to-point problem-solving. For example, I only consider art students changed careers because of employment difficulties, but I didn’t think that at least they found a job. Should we do what we love or love what we do? I only consider how to help the audience understand the works of art students, but do they care whether the audience can appreciate their works?
I think I lack the ability to think comprehensively and critically. At the same time, the background research is not enough. In the future, I will ask myself more ‘why’ when making decisions and thinking about problems.