When we were first briefed about this project I had no idea where to start. To be completely honest I didn’t think I had a strong enough personality to create my own personal manifesto. I don’t have a deeper meaning as to why I want to be an artist. I enjoy involving world issues, such as protests, into my work but I don’t purely create art with the hope of changing the world in some way.

I decided to become an artist because I followed my passion. I enjoy creating, its something I’ve always found myself drawn to do. I enjoy designing things that others may find visually pleasing. And maybe I don’t need to specify my identity as an artist any more than that. It was during a similar time that I came across the biography of Pablo Picasso, in which Arianna Huffington shares what he once said to her, “It’s not what an artist does that counts, but what he is.”

Usually, I tend to create artwork that others may find appealing, for example, something they might like to hang in their home etc. I feel like I have found my own comfort zone with mediums I tend to use and the work I create. Often it’s difficult to step outside of comfort zones we create for ourselves, especially when we don’t realise they are there. The one thing I don’t include in my art is my personal life. I tend to make art focusing on other facts, either because I find my life in itself isn’t worth documenting or people would simply not be interested in viewing the work. This is something I’m going to have to alter when creating my personal manifesto.

Instead of focusing on my life as a whole, I’ve decided to explore my space and surroundings, as they have become a really important part of my life recently. I’ve had to move out of the first accommodation that I moved into when I started university. Trying to rent a flat in the centre of London has been one of the hardest, stressful and most frustrating times so far, as I’ve had to move back home while still working in London, as well as trying to find new accommodation. Not feeling like you have a certain place to call home, or a place to go back to in which you feel completely comfortable in is draining, to say the least. It’s also made me consider how personal space is perceived. Whether it is simply the area that surrounds our body or whether it could be something more precise like our home. But personal space could also be considered as our bodily relationship to something in particular.