Study Statement Ideas Refinement

 Trying to capture some of the thinking I've been doing... I think I have narrowed it down to a number of possible areas:

• Open Technology for self-expression: Explore the limits of how open source technology can be pushed to facilitate different forms of self-expression and mark making
• Survivors not victims: Explore how those affected (directly or indirectly) by illness and disability are portrayed, and how those narratives can be challenged
• Art for Business: How can artist processes be applied to business? How can artistic thinking be better understood as innovative and commercial thinking?
• Artistic Expression for all: Dechamp broke the idea that only certain things can be art, can I break the assumption that only certain people can be artists? What is the world missing by segments of society not self-expressing through art?

But I also have some constraints:

• I want to self-express and tell my story in a way that's compelling
• I want to make art that people will see and which can be exhibited

I think 'art for business' could be the direction I want to go in to make money post-MA (assuming I'm not a wildly successful artist, ha!), so while it could be advantageous to do it as part of my MA, it could also be limiting and could derail my MA.

I'd like to combine some of the above, struggling now to work out how to do so... Feels like it's "using open technology to help those affected by illness/disability to tell their story", but I don't like the risk that I won't be making my own art! Plus the focus on technology and the focus on disability/illness don't sit together naturally...