I give you the end of a golden string;Only wind it into a ball:It will lead you in at Heaven’s gate,Built in Jerusalem’s wall. ‘Jerusalem’ – William Blake The work and thoughts here are part of my MA in Artist Teacher Practice at Oxford Brookes. I am currently pursuing...
Wayfare With Me
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Creative Synthesis – Expression of Illumination
Creative synthesis is an expression of the new knowledge that has been generated as a result of the heuristic research process. It is not simply a summary, but an expressive representation of the meaning made by the researcher (Moustakas, 1990). By exhibiting the poster within the village, the synthesis...
A Call to Artistic Arms
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Emerging Artist Identity – A Conclusion
In this heuristic inquiry (Moustakas, 1990), I sought to argue that by disrupting the tourist gaze (Urry, 2002), through minor gestures (Manning, 2016), wayfaring (Ingold, 2022) and analogue photographic practice, you can deterritorialise (Deleuze and Guattari, 2013) and disrupt your habitual ways of seeing and, in turn, I wanted...
What to read if you too want to deterritorialise yourself and disrupt your habitual ways
Reference List Berger, J. and Mohr, J. (2016) Another Way of Telling: A Possible Theory of Photography. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. Braun, V. and Clarke, V. (2022) Thematic analysis : a practical guide. Los Angeles: SAGE. Deleuze, G. and Guattari, F. (2013) A Thousand Plateaus. London: Bloomsbury Academic. Gould, R. (1979)...
Themes – the photographs that represent them
Emerging Artist Identity Embodied Practice Attending Liminality Uncertainty...
Uncertainty (risk is your friend)
This theme and the photos that belong to it, reflects the role of risk and uncertainty in enabling transformation. As Gould said, ‘growing is a dangerous act of transformation’ (Gould, 1979, p. 25). Moments of choosing unfamiliar routes, taking detours, following my intuition, entering ambiguous space or encountering barriers...
Liminality (the speculative middle and passing through thresholds)
This theme explores the recurring experiences of being in-between. Many of my photographs include physical evidence of being in-between such as bridges, alleys, doorways, gates, even graveyards. The latent coding of these meant that they became symbolic of transition and becoming. The photographs become evidence of an ongoing process...
Attending (unexpected encounters and the minor gesture as an act of disruption)
Slowing down and attending opened up the possibility for unexpected encounters. Things that might have ordinarily been overlooked, such as plants emerging against the odds, cracked earth, shafts of light, traces through fields and reflections in windows, became significant moments. Through the embodied practice of wayfaring and analogue photography,...
Embodied Practice
The embodied practice became an integral element of the research inquiry. It is the Deterritorialising (Deleuze & Guattari, 2013) mechanism which creates the conditions for attending, liminality and transformation. The embodied actions that I took are a form of tacit knowledge; they are intuitive and often occur spontaneously as...