Week 2 Feb 25th Begin research reading and gathering, use Textile reader (Hemmings, 2012) and Everyday Reader (Highmore, 2002); texts related to touch, histories, colonialism, colour, routine, textile usage. Explore artists already working around my exploration. Mon 26 Feb: Writing Workshop

This week I realised I am trying to cover too many topic in my workThankfully I realised that now before I had embarked on a huge amount of research for the essay. After summarising myself fro the writing workshop and for a couple of application I am keeping my work simple - routine, repetition, disruption in an urban environment; how chaos interacts with the repetition of everyday life. Well, when I say simple I mean that it's not as diverse as it initially was by including socio cultural factors, race relations, post0colonialism etc... if an audience wants to see that in the work thats okay, but I'm going to leave it out of my own critique, for now anyway!So, I've since read through a couple of the essays in The Textile Reader, (Hemmings, 2012) regarding touch, everyday life in public spaces and fabric and usage. I will comment on them in a separate post once I have gathered my thoughts.To be honest this week has been overwhelming, the writing workshop went quickly and I felt somewhat put on the spot, this made me instantly loose confidence in my self as I didn't feel as grounded in my process as my course mates appear to be. The essay feels like its running at twice the speed of life and I can't keep up. I can't quite get my head around having a vague structure ready for next week. I am wondering if its me or the pacing of the course, the fact that all three assessed projects are started at the same time and running parallel feels crazy.