Studio reflections ex 1.3 This is about my relationship to/with my studio, and as I’m very lucky to have one I have no trouble seeing it as vital. It was rebuilt during the pandemic, having sprung a leak, and for … Continue reading Part 2, Project 4 – reflective exercise
Thinking again about magical realism, I’m reminded of a short story of which this is the opening paragraph: “The sea had embroidery at its edges. It cast a frill of pretty ruffles over the pebbles and sank like fine silk in between them before the giant in the deep ocean turned over in his sleep and drew it back.” Not Blue Not Fresh Not Ever Free (unpublished short story) It brings to the people on the land whatever they want; different kinds of items on different tides – clothes one time, furniture another. Beyond that, their world is normal and … Continue reading Parallel project #4
Asking google whether a painting could also be music led me to this Guardian article by Gerard McBurney from 2006. In it he describes Kandinsky’s view that colours resonated with each other to produce visual chords. He wasn’t alone and he wasn’t the first. The Pythagoreans had a view, “The eyes are made for astronomy, the ears for harmony, and these are sister sciences.“, and the much later Romantics, “Goethe declared that architecture was “frozen music”, and the mid-Victorian über-aesthete Walter Pater breathlessly announced that “all art aspires towards the condition of music“. Kandinsky evidently hit his stride during an … Continue reading Parallel project #3
RP2 Explore early cubist works of Picasso and Braque. What were the influences on Cubism, how did Cubism represent the 3D quality of objects, what similarities are there in this to non-western approaches? About a year ago, I did a … Continue reading Part 2: research point 2 and Reading 3
What if a landscape were a dance? What would a painting of hills and sheep look like if they were heavy metal, or the final scene from Woolf Works, or an Argentine tango? Or rap, house, or a big band … Continue reading Parallel project #2 – what if …
I strongly suspect this has little to do with NASA and everything to do with the table. Exercise 1-2 is about perspective and the use of collage, but I’m not sure I understand the projected process. The expectation is that … Continue reading Part 2 – contemporary approaches to still life: exploring space
This is quite a significant piece of work and, although it runs alongside the set projects of Studio Practice, it’s work that can be of any theme, any genre, and any media, size, or style. Because of that, and because … Continue reading Parallel project – first thoughts.
Because I have difficulty even taking photos where this requires leaning at an angle, I have reinterpreted this task in terms of different groups of items rather than the same one from above/below and so forth. I know I can’t … Continue reading Part 2, project 2, exercise 1.1 observe/record
The background This first exercise, collect/make/arrange, requires the grouping of a number of objects, loosely related in some way, on a table that can remain in situ for the duration of Part 2. Then to add to the collection by … Continue reading Part 2, project 1 – contemporary approaches to still life
The final series of images is a combination of learning from previous modules and in-situ serendipity whereby something unusual happened because of light and reflections being different in my new space. The first image (green) began as randomly as I … Continue reading Assignment 1, reflective account
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