To most, changing course is a scary and risky move, and thats usually in your first year of uni; so the shock and concern on some peoples faces when I said I was switching course in second year made me feel like a bit of a mad man. To me however the transition from Fashion to Textiles has been a fluid one, reassuring that I am the right track, or more so 'a' right track. Something that I've come to learn is that there isn't one smooth go; there's bumps and turns in the road something you just have to embrace instead of sitting in auto-pilot all your life. So I made the wrong decision, so I wasn't enjoying my course. Do I look at the past year with regret and disappointment, or do I take it in my stride and simply accept that it was a year in which I learned a lot about myself. Looking back at my work from Foundation in college my I can see my work was a lot more about generating fabrics and materials aimed towards fashion, opposed to fashion work for fashion. I can also see a lot more passion and joy in what I was doing opposed to feeling the need to tailor my work to fit a Fashion Design syllabus. Textiles in Practice is such a broad and open-ended course, offering teaching for skills that lend to a variety of fields. Textiles for the body is definitely something I've always had an interest in, but I have not yet fully explored textiles applied to an installation context, which is something which interests me a lot. Im excited to embark on this new chapter of my life.
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