One of my feedback suggestions from my last unit EYV, was to engage with other students a lot more. This included asking for feedback on my assignments. This is a big deal for me as I feel very anxious about sharing my work, I find it hard enough sending my images to my tutor.
I decided to bite the bullet and finally ask for feedback for the first time. I felt excited and nervous at the same time. I am proud of my work and felt like I executed it well (this is rare for me to say, I am usually my worst critic). What if they didn’t like it?, what if they didn’t understand what the message was?
I was very pleased with the comments I received. I think maybe they didn’t want to be too hard on me knowing I was nervous and that it was my first time posting.
A lot of the comments were sympathetic to the message and said how brave I was to express it. It was very brave of me, I have kept these feelings in for over 20 years and have now found a way to express them for others to see.
A few of the comments suggested changing my text so they are all the same format, for example, some text read one sentence such as “Ugly, brittle, a nuisance”. Whereas others had a internal and external voice feel to the text, such as “I already ate”.. “I’m starving myself”. A lot of the students agreed that following the same inner voice text would flow better. I also agreed, however, I decided against it as I couldn’t think of appropriate inner and outer text for all images.
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