• This is a double-length reflection
• Please see the attached document: Senior Project 2021 Final Critical Reflection Prompts. This reflection is an in-depth look back at the past 6 weeks in particular, but can also address aspects of Senior Project that took place before the experiential portion of your project. Take your time with these prompts, think deeply, write down responses or talk them through with a peer or adult, and try to answer as many of these as possible with detail. These questions are designed to help you reflect on your process and also to move you towards an understanding of what you want to share with your audience on Senior Project Evening. Re-read all your previous documentation posts, including your previous Critical Reflections.
• Some general helpful prompts may be:
  • How has your essential question changed throughout the 6 weeks?
  • What did you expect to learn and how does that compare to what you did learn?
  • How do you anticipate this experience changing you or affecting you going forward?
  • What do you most want others to know about your SP Experience?

My project in general has been more art-focused than I thought it would be. I started out these six weeks wanting to mostly focus on dream interpretation and have art be the side piece, but it turned out to be the other way around. I think this happened because I was put into the art cohort group, and worked on art at school 3 days a week. This was very very beneficial to me because I was able to have a semi-structured time where I was expected to work, but at my own leisure. It was wonderful to have a calm environment with wonderful and supportive people. I found that I enjoy making art more than researching. I set a goal for myself in which I would make one (larger) art piece a week.

Once again, a big majority of my project turned out to be focused on the art, which I didn’t initially expect. I expected to be a little more involved in the interpreting aspect of it, but it turned out to be a bit too tedious to be the main focus of my project. I didn’t really have many expectations for myself because I didn’t want this project to cause too much stress.

This project has developed my art skills. I never knew that I would enjoy block printing, (because I didn’t like it the last time I did it)… but I actually really liked doing it for the mixed media collage pieces. I also had never really experimented with collage, so it was fun to do that.

I’m not really sure what I want people to know about my senior project experience. I honestly don’t really need people to know anything because there’s not much to say about it. I want people to more so look through what I have created and be able to explore it on their own.