just found this quote from malcolm gladwell, author of "blink" and "the tipping point", both new york times best-sellers. it has great relevance for both your writing and speaking about your work:
"The written word, to my mind, improves to the extent that it comes to resemble the spoken word—and the discipline of having to present my work orally has helped to make me a clearer and more succinct writer."
i spoke to takach about this relationship after his process presentation with our guest critics. matt's writing is very well considered, and full of good insights, but to read it aloud sounds very dense and is hard to process. the above quote is something that i am realizing as i give talks both in class and at education conferences, but of course gladwell puts it better than i could have. have you found instances of your classmates (or your own speaking) being hard to process? what kind of connection exists, if any, between your making, writing, and speaking about your work?
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this makes a lot of sense to me because i have difficulty speaking about my work sometimes and even more trouble writing about it. i have come to realize i'm not the best at writing... but that quote hits home to me and i see the correlation between speaking about work and then writing it.
Naturally we are creative visual people who can whip out something usually pretty quickly. When a 'project' comes about you might have the first idea within seconds, or minutes. I think to be able to talk about your work in a concise way and then be able to write about it wraps up the whole package into a nice little gift :)
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