On the 4th of July, Jonny came into Hautlieu School in order to promote his personally studies and also his obscure and radical thoughts of family and environment within photography. Based on Jonny’s work, we engaged a workshop that allowed us to explore the theme failure and how it co-insides with creativity.

Jonny first asked; is fear a bad thing, or can something good come from it? This spiraled my thoughts into thinking of my personal achievements and how they all blossomed through fear. Having my personally experiences to direct my answer, I responded to Jonny and disagreed with the idea of fear being a bad thing, I believe that all good things can come from fear, although fear may be perceived as something we all must avoid, beneath its hardship we can all gain a valuable experience from it. It allows us to challenge the skills we already have, but it can also spark abilities that we never knew we had, and traits that could develop a better self. However, fear also has the concept of weakening our intentions and also our work, depending whether the subject you’re working on is limited and will not allow that creative aspect to occur.

The workshop consisted of two activities; to draw an imaginary individual with our eyes closed and then to draw someone in the same room as us with our eyes closed.

This task promoted the idea of not knowing, or having control over our ideas since we could not observe and develop an efficient response to our thoughts. In relation to Jonny’s question, this task engaged the idea of fearing our results, which later resulted in something creative.