I took an inspirational dive over this. For some reason, I found it hard to imagine and couldn’t bring to mind any kind of subject matter that might remedy that. So I ran a search on Pexels which provides royalty … Continue reading Leaving space, making space – option 4, ex 4.1
Project 2: gaps and spaces. I knew I had seen this because I had opened up some YouTube tabs and some static pages of images, but then forgot by somehow mentally integrating it with the research point and only when I’d finished that, wondering what these tabs were about. This may have been fortuitous as I think the preceding work will make this task easier. This, I think, is the video; the links in the course materials aren’t active but there is a searchable title. There is also this video which is a longer version of the one above. McKeever … Continue reading Ian McKeever
To quote the course materials, this exercise is to “gain experience in working with very different source material and gain confidence in working with e-journals” and to gain a deeper understanding of “how artists ‘know’ their subject and how they use that knowledge.” The two references are: Donachie, Kaye. 2016. Behind her eyelids she sees something […]. J Contemporary Painting, 2, 1, pp11-20. Intellect. Morley, Simon. 2016. A ‘shimmering thing at the edge of analysis’: figure/ground and the paintings of Agnes Martin. J Contemporary Painting. 2, 1, pp 39-56. Intellect. The links in the course materials are not active but … Continue reading Part 4, project 2, research task
There were two stand-out elements to this discussion and the formative feedback that followed. The first was very clear support for the digital process, whether via painting/photo editing apps or animation and film, and that development of expertise here would count towards assessment of technique and range of media investigated. The second related to the notion of influences. I have never been conscious of influences in any sphere of academic application or practice; which is not to say there have been none, it simply means I have most likely absorbed the gestalt of the influence(r) and forgotten the rest. I … Continue reading Response to assignment 1 tutorial discussion -influences
10th February 2022. Off the back of some partially imagined seascapes, and after seeing someone using brown paper as a support, I tore up an Amazon bag and stuck it with transparent primer to a sheet of white cartridge. No … Continue reading Edges and liminals
This is the second of the two real-world liminalities I’d experienced in one day. The first at the vet (previous post) and the second on the sea front. My plan was to interpret rather than replicate this image, and to … Continue reading Option 4: ex 4.2.2 liminality
Assignment 1 – Progress to date. I chose Options 1 and 4 with substitutions of one element in each from Options 2 and 3. Of this, I have completed all of the first option and begun working on the second. … Continue reading Exploring Media, Level 2 (HE5): Assignment 1
27th January. On the morning before completing exercise 4.0, I encountered two real world liminals or transitions. The first at the vet’s where I was making a routine appointment for my cat’s boosters, and the second a little later along … Continue reading Option 4, Ex 4.0.2, liminality, unknowing
26th January 2022. I was at a bit of a loss with this to begin with, but I know my own history and it quite often favours horizontals whether these are tide lines up a river bank or the strands … Continue reading Option 4; liminality, ex 4.0 states of unknowing
The first task in this option is one of close reading, a technique that requires conscious attention to a tract of text in its context, the linguistics of it, the rhythms, and the meanings. We have for examination Pippa Gatty’s artist statement from her site in August 2020 (provided in the course materials) and we’re looking for words indicating liminality (edges or borders), and unknowing. For me, this was an exercise in identifying probes – where would I want to ask the meaning of something, for instance? – along with words that suggest containments or areas of leakage through a … Continue reading Option 4: unknowing, research task, & essay
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