Week 1 - Freedom (actually 2 weeks but it was Easter Holidays).

On my last day of term just before the Easter Holidays my class was given information about our final project for year one. We were given a single word – Freedom. We were then given a plastic poly pocket with 63 pieces of a variety of card/paper. Our tutors then talked us through the project.

We were told about the Magna Carta and its 800^th anniversary celebrations in June and how our work was going on display alongside the Exhibition.

I found this intriguing and I also like the idea of been more in control of this project because I can interpret and express it how I want, in what style I want, using what media I want.

When we were given a plastic bag with a variety of different stationery ranging from wallpaper to card, all 10 x 10cm in size, I looked at the bag and could not work out what on earth I was going to do with them. Kat told us to treat them like a scrapbook but without the binder. I still was none the wiser, as I could not link the cards and word together at the same time.

  
Over the holidays I talked about the project and everybody from my family and friends all had a different idea about what freedom means. My mum told me about the Magna Carta and we looked at the websites, in particular the British Library webpage as this had a lot of detail about the celebrations including the artist Cornelia Parkers’ work to celebrate the anniversary.

My dad told me to disregard all the obvious ideas and think about what it meant to me.  It means lots of things to me so I typed in Google ‘what does freedom mean?’

It gave me lots of quotes about equality, empowerment, freedom and non-judgment and lots of pictures of people in fields, flying doves and breaking chains. I understood what my dad meant then, as I could not relate to any of that, for example I have never been chained or a slave.

I kept researching and making notes ready for when I went back to college but I still had no idea how to show what freedom means.