The term's work

It's been a week since "the assessment". On the morning of the day, all the bits and pieces were waiting for a final check against the list - personal statement, statement of intent, tutorial reports, sketchbooks (labelled with start date), "the drawing project", and of course the all-important Self-Reflective Journals, which in my case consist of printouts of the relevant posts from this blog.
In the portfolio were the worksheets, beginning with those coloured squares (hated doing them) and finishing with some personal work, my Breakthrough quilt - a subject relevant to, and intertwined with, my theme of Inside-Outside-In between. They were all A1 size, only the photo sizes have been changed for ease of posting -Finished sculpture projects - carving, casting, and the outdoor project -Research for the outdoor sculpture - ideas, and materials -
Finished ceramics items - pinch pots, vessels, and slabs -
The rest of the worksheets are research towards the project next term - insides, outsides, structures, houses, artworks - a real hodge-podge.
Doors and floorplans
Surfaces - quite a lot of frottage, from the ceramic slabs - and, on a postcard, another of my quilts, from the Fissures exhibition (the one that I'd left on the train) -
I arrived at City Lit rather early and had time to sit in the caf and have a coffee and do some drawing in the fat new little sketchbook, which I aim to fill by the end of December -
Upstairs we waited in the corridor outside the room to be called.
Twenty minutes later, it was all over - not so bad. This was followed by some hanging round in the corridor, chatting, and in the caf, more chatting - "how did it go?" Now we wait for our grades.

The process was a time of consolidation for me. Focusing on putting those [expletive deleted] worksheets together in a limited space of time was like putting everything into a sausage grinder and out came ... nice little useful sausages, ready for frying next term. Noooo, not quite! Paper-making might be a better analogy: the pulp is dispersed in the water, and doing the worksheets was like using a screen to pick up the pulp to gather it all into a useful sheet of paper, for writing on or cutting up or folding, I'm not sure what; making into a book maybe?