When I look back at my journey through this PGDP course, the first thing that comes to mind are the words exploration and reflection. Coming from a non-design background, how I came to grips with the reality of my new everyday life was to dissect every learning into the familiar and the unfamiliar. The best way to describe this journey is thus like being handed a massive, chaotic ball of yarn and me trying to untangle the web, one thread at a time. Organising, pulling on familiar threads, getting frustrated or flustered, trying to find loose ends, and then finally hoping to find clarity in the end.

What I understood is that designing is not an act but a constant cyclical process.  The kind where you can't even tell where it starts or ends, like a pendulum swinging between the starting point and end point infinitely. Each endpoint swings back to a new beginning in the form of a new iteration, new material, or new discipline. Finding a path between those tangled strands, I would often think, 'Yes! I'm getting it!' But then, another knot would appear, making me question everything all over again. But each frustrating loop would leave me with more clarity on how to practice and sharpen my creative self. How to lose my rational self in a messy knot,  and get so deeply involved in the process of unravelling that I find a new avenue, a new solution, a new way of thinking?

Ultimately, with each studio, seminar, and project, I have honed the ability to recognise certain patterns, those threads that are starting to run parallel. Hence, even if complete clarity is not what I achieve by the end of the course, what I have gained is the ability to immerse myself in the act of doing, being adaptable, controlling my frustrations and troubleshooting at every dead end.