As Ingold said, ‘in the story, as in life, there is always somewhere further to go’ (Ingold, 2016, p. 93). I would love to somehow digitize my work and turn it into a zine or pamphlet, akin to those I admire so much (Unseen, Rachel Poulton/Justin Hopper, Louisa Albani,...
Taking Risk by Leaping into the Liminal Landscape
Transformation doesn’t happen when things are comfortable, you have to be a bit lost or out of your comfort zone. You have to go through the liminal, swampy (Schon, 1984) lowlands to be transformed. The journey through is not straight froward, clear or linear. You have to become a...
No Longer the Little Girl Lost
I’ve used Blake’s poems entitled ‘Little Girl Lost,#’ (Blake, 1967, p. 136), several times as the basis for palimpsests. Partly because it was tongue in cheek, but also partly because the title resonated with how I was feeling at the start of this module – lost. The use of...
Making sense of my Making – Walking
The psychogeography; tracing the edge of myself. I started this module heavily influenced by psychogeography, read all of the books and took a course run by Greg Humphries through the St Ives School of Painting. I thought that my emerging practice had moved far away from the beginning of...
Making Sense of my Making – Earth Pigments
Pigment and Place. I bought and thoroughly enjoyed Eleanor Nairne’s book Brutal Beauty about the work of Jean Dubuffet. Dubuffet appealed to me because he rejected traditional art and favoured the use of unorthodox materials, texturology and assemblage. I found myself mesmerised by his paintings of the life of...
Making Sense of my Making – Monoprint
The print as trace. Monoprint is an entirely new element of my practice. Until this module, I had never before attempted to make a monoprint. I purchased some books on it, built a kit of equipment, watched a lot of videos and began to experiment. I welcomed the fact...
Making Sense of my Making – Poetry
Poetry, the golden string that weaves it all together. With a BA (Hons) In English & Creative Writing, again, like Photography, this was a more familiar practice to turn to. However, the element of risk came from the act of sharing what I had written; the risk of vulnerability....
Making Sense of my Making – Photography
Photography & Psychogeography as a Form of Inner Mapping This was where it all began, what I clung to as I found out we were developing a body of work which demonstrates a personal exploration of contemporary arts practice. We were prompted to think about our existing practice (did...
Assemblage
As I’ve walked, through the landscape and seasons, I have collected wild flowers and brought them home to press. I wasn’t entirely sure if I should/would use them in my body of work. Then, admittedly after reading a lot of DeLanda and Deleuze and Guattari, I was thinking about...
Critical Mirrors
Recently, I met a potter, who unwittingly became a critical mirror (Brookfield in Mezirow et al, 2000, p.146). I was on holiday, fresh from the frenetic nature of the end of term, with my family in Cornwall. We had spent the day exploring the north coast and were teasing...