Following the aims of transformational learning theory and using art as a means of expression, I have attempted to do an exercise that showed how I have engaged with the materials presented in the MA course. At the beginning of my studies I was not familiar with most of the themes that are at the core of the MA programme, such as symbolism or divination. During these years of learning I have discovered and rediscovered different areas of knowledge that have impacted me in many ways and that have contributed, and will still be adding, to my growth as a person. Therefore I wanted to create something that reflected what the MA has meant for me. 

I also visited several art exhibitions, I went to art shops and art galleries, and it was in one of those visits that I found a collage of the city of Canterbury that I bought and used as my inspiration. Just as this artist had included different landmarks in Canterbury and had arranged them in his own particular way, I wanted to do the same in my project. I intended to include the most iconic topics in the MA and I sought to find a container the same way this artist had used the Canterbury wall. I wanted to create something that would be a sort of memento of my time here, and also something that would show the way I had engaged with the MA material.

The layout of the images was ruled by their colour. I put the brown, earthy colours below, green and orange in the middle, and blue and other colder colours in the third level. Curiously this arrangement resulted in a kind of thematic unity- the bottom part seems to contain the myths, the ancient knowledge; the middle part creativity and dreams, the top part the brain, consciousness, and science. It is interesting to note that Jaffé (1964, p.258) claims that the role of consciousness in modern painting also arises in connection with the use of chance as a means of composing paintings. She argues that in these compositions it is chance that gives depth to the work of art.