A brief concluding personal statement about your experience in this course.

At the very first beginning my intented learning goals were,

• Be able to create qualified artworks with the data collected during field visits and researches.
• To explore and understand what kind of information and data should be collected; which are actually useful to achieve my research purposes...
• To decide the most suitable mediums and styles for the outcome work... 
• Be flexible and make instant adjustments with the environmental and sujects' changes.
• Being able to understand and adjust my relationships/positions with the everyday surroundings. 

And in the middle of the courses my learning goals were,

• Make some efforts in the process of tagging and coding
• 以小見大, 主觀內省
• Photography as one of the medthodogies tools which, worth some more exploration and attention towards my self-learning processes
• auto-ethnography
• Inspired by Jeanne Dielma's 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975, 201 minutes) and some Godard films and hope to make some works like those....
• Love the guts and expressive power of the artists Jo Spence and Sophie Calle and plan to develop some photography projects and S.I things as some contemporary art practise

And now at this present moment I think I have achieved my intened learning outcomes set in the very first beginning of this course and efforts should be made with the learning goals made during the middle of this class.

First of all, I think tagging and coding are kinda hard with a whole collection of photos just like my experiences in the semester end project...since each photo tells its' whole story and tagging a certain amount of photos with details deserves a much longer period of time. And what tags should we apply is another task since we are deciding what we plan to focus and it's always a struggle and confused process for me since everything seem deserving certain amounts of  attention...I have to be more firm with what I want to focus so to make the tagging process as a way to identify the details that deserve more discussion of the specific topics.

And for the 以小見大, 主觀內省 point, I can see myself is in a good process. :D I start to look at details of my everyday life and documents consciously with first describing the details and then analyzing and interpret them. And during those process, I also think of why myself describe, analyze and interpret that way and how my thoughts are related to my experiences and personalities.

What's more, I really did start my collection of family photos as an auto-ethnography project and I think it's a good start though I ignore the importance of creative treatment in this kind of research project and make it a report...The creative treatment and possibilities of researching some found materials/documents should be noticed in the coming future!!!!!! Love the expressive energy with its' personal experiences and social narration power in auto-ethnography works! Those works are so touching and good inspirations for me. And love how it is used as a therapy form and a exploration to the world...that's how I like art education to raise awareness of one self and his relationships to the world...

Last but not least, this course also enhance my interests in visual materials in particular photography and video works. With the thick description techniques learnt in Micro-Narrative class and influences of different artists such as Zoe Leonard, Jo Spence and Jeanne Dielma, the usage of photography and video works have interest me and wanna to develop my future projects in this two areas more. Though they both have long history and a lot of artists have been trying to develop works based on these two mediums, I really hope that personally I can break the norms and create my own systems and new perspectives...