After The First Tutorial 

I just had my first meeting with my tutor for the portfolio project. He gave me some useful insights in which I could develop the work, in this blog I’ll outline the most important ones. 

Finding a Metaphor
Perhaps one of the most important elements in this project would be to find a metaphor, by this I mean either a concept, a narrtive, an aesthetic or a message I want to transmit with this project. In the manner I interpreted this was: I have a set of intuitions or interests that I want to pursue with this project, finding a metaphor would be the process where I contextualize and create a narrative for such intuitions. 

This draws more questions:

– What aesthetic would my project have?
– What’s the narrative of my project?
– Is there any politics associated with the project?

An example of this could be creating a brand for the instrument I’m making, where I establish the aesthetic of the brand and its mission. 

Relating back to Mexico 
Another of the ideas given in the tutorial was to relate my project someway to my home country/origin Mexico. This could be an attempt to fight western logocentrism, including an intelectual point of view from a Mexican perspective. This goes hand by hand with finding a metaphor, my project aesthetic or narrative could connect with a Mexican practice, or discuss a political/social phenomena of the country.  
Currently I don’t have any ideas regarding this, as my ideas for the project come from a technical perspective, but if I find a way to link them together it could be very interesting. 

Don’t let the technology control me 
The final advice I was given connects to the point that my project originates from a technical persepective. As learning a new technology is a rabbit whole, I should prevent myself from getting lost in it. By this I mean that I shouldn’t let my project be controlled by the technology, and instead, impose my ideas in an un-biased form over my technical practice. 

To finish this post I want to mention a quote from Marcus Tullius Cicero that appropriately describes the current state of my project:

“More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision. Indecision is the thief of opportunity. It will leave you blind”