Act 1 – Task 4 – Eveline Kinzkofer

Automatic Writing Sheet

Before we were briefed on Act 1, we were given an ‘automatic writing’ sheet, as can be seen above, and 20 minutes to fill the sheet with 96 words of our choice. We were advised not to put too much thought into each word and try to fill it up swiftly and instinctively. The words I chose fluctuate between adjectives, feelings, objects and many more.

During Act 1 overall, we were challenged to develop our visual language. This included reducing our usual habits of image making and instead working with our instinct. I found this concept quite difficult to grasp if I’m honest, because usually I will spend a lot of time thinking about what I want to create and how to create it.

I think instead of just creating a large number of illustrations, I was focusing too much on trying not to literally be interpreting my words from the extraction sheet. I made sure I didn’t literally interpret my words into an illustration that would depict the exact same image, and rather think about how words relate to other words and what type of connections they have to each other. I was considering responses to the words such as feelings, senses, emotional and atmospheric responses.

I realise that the work was expected to be quite abstract, which I think I struggled with slightly, but the task has definitely made me start to think more abstract, even if it’s not that obvious in the work I’ve created for Task 4. This is something I’ll consider within my next tasks and feel that I may find this easier now that I’ve realised this myself.

The following work is some of which I’ve produced from the different tasks we were set in Task 4. I used a wide range of materials and mediums including pencil, pen, fineliner, ink, watercolour, pastels, collaging and printmaking.

Illustrate the words with 5 letters: