During the course of this session we were continuously invited to explore how our own personal work can mesh and weave itself with our research and images from a phonebook, to see how by combining the different mediums we could create a completely new piece of work. Coming up with something entirely independent from the source materials and giving it a whole new light, meaning and look. In order to do this in a physical we were asked to create a collage including our own images, images and text from research and images from a book called 'Evidence'; we first made a collage on our own. Then after completing this we were tasked with creating some collages with a partner.... but one of us was to have our eyes closed and the other wold guide the person with their eyes closed in order to help them create the work. The lastly as a class we laid put all the collages made that day in rows across the room, so we could begin the editing process, as we were to end up with our own 'book' similar to 'Evidence'. After laying out we organized the order of the pages to identify some kind of flow for the pages, then we were tasked with cutting the selection of pages down to 50 to match the amount of pages in the book. This caused some debate as others agreed and others did not when it came to removing pages, finally once we cut the pages down to the correct amount we paired up the pages and stuck them together and compiled them, the resemble a mock book to look through. 

I wasn't expecting much going in to this session as I thought it would just be a pointless day of collage, but I was pleasantly surprised coming out of it. Due to the freedom of the session it meant you were able to stop taking the work so seriously, meaning it was easier to not overthink the work we were producing. The session really opened my eyes to the different ways in which you cn mesh your work with in others in a successful way, which is obviously helpful with our manifestos as we will be mixing our own work an researched work in the pages together.