Since I have started my journey at NCAD I have continuously failed. I failed my first year of college, and that failure has stayed with me until recently. Six weeks from my final submission, for my final year, I felt like I was going to fail again. I felt lost in my work. I was unsure how to move forward. I kept thinking I'm stuck in a dead end. It was only after accepting that I was failing that this stopped. I had to understand what failing actually meant. Not as an end but instead a continuation of the process. It allows for a new approach to be taken. Failing is something that won’t last forever. It’s something that I can look forward to.

James Eamonn Kennedy

Failure

he/him

'BigJames'

'BigJames'

'BigJames at Red Square'

'BigJames at Red Square'

'Inability'; A book on my failings

'Inability'; A book on my failings

Book introduction

Book introduction

Statement on doing

Statement on doing

Feelings of my failure

Feelings of my failure

Statement on quitting

Statement on quitting

Transformation of my failure into something new

Transformation of my failure into something new

'BigJames' turned into envelops

'BigJames' turned into envelops

423 Reminders

423 Reminders