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AAD II, Assignment 1, Post 2- A revelation

 Just a short entry.  Jessica returned our book reports on Art and Fear.  In mine she said she hoped that the book would provide an impetus for self-examination and reflection in my own work.  On reading that I realized that I don't want to do any of that.   I do this work to avoid thinking about anything.   This makes writing an artist's statement challenging.

AAD II, Assignment 1, Post 1- Portfolio, but online!

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 The one things I decided on with little analysis when this assignment was explained was I would use my Dulse Sheep Design branding from AAD I.  I really liked what I had produced for that assignment and hope to make it going concern at some level.  Details to be determined. I did a small update to my Behance profile at Christmas and was singularly uninspired by the experience, so even before Ian said that Behance shouldn't be used I had decided to switch.  But to what?  There were a lot of tools flying around, Canva, Wix, Wordpress, etc.  With the exception of Canva they all seemed pretty CSS, or site specific process, heavy.  I used Canva during the marketing course and it seemed like glorified powerpoint so that was out. I went to the source of all knowledge, Google, and searched for 'good portfolio site builder'.  Lots of returns, but the /r/portfolio subreddit threw up some interesting results.  There was a lot of illustrative, anime foc...