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This blog is a diary of visual research.

An archive of ‘undisciplined’ meandering.

Glimpses of contemplation, musing, reading, wandering, collecting & gathering. Drawing in silence & sound, light & dark. Deep within this rumination is an honest account of the evolution behind creating, discovering, and traveling down the twisted life path of an artist.

Advisor Meeting Berlin (29 July & 11 August 2017)

with Jean Marie Casbarian (studio advisor)

  • Continue to experiment with the light drawings. Build up the charcoal heavily on a page and see what happens when you pierce the paper - place the second sheet of paper under the drawing and as you pierce the paper let the charcoal fall onto the page below as evidence of the act. 

  • Think about other forms of documentation of the process.

  • Revisit Gibson and Recoder.

  • Gary Hill

  • Book Recommendation for Iceland:  

    • The Far Away Near By

    • The importance of being in Iceland

  • Try to Visit Mass MoCA to see the James Turrell works there.

  • Look into other people who have done a similar thing in terms of isolation. Think about following someone else's trajectory – retrace somebody else who has done this before.

  • Research the area & see whats there before you go

  • What mark is that environment going to leave on you and you on the environment? Psychologically, physically and document how?

  • Research other at writers and artist who have written about this kind of experience or about Iceland

  • Mans Search for Meaning  - Victor Frankl

  • Revisit Roni Horn

  • How to work within a practice of isolation or deprivation

  • Herb Thomas Merton

  • Hone in on the meaning of the research question

  • Joan Jonas watch her interviews

 

Meeting 2

  • Chasing Ice – captures largest glacier calving ever filmed

  • Think about what tools to take - redefine tool

  • Look at Mini projectors

  • Torches and other light sources

  • Build an "emergency kit" - Tools that will help with your practice

  • Think about Extremes and Weather; light and darkness – the black paper is curiously more visible than the light paper. You are already working with light and dark

  • Look at James Turrell's black pieces 

  • What 3 books will you take? Think about books maybe not related to art – the anatomy of the eye, for example - the eye is a representation of a camera – think about those connections

  • Curious about what happens when you remove things – how will you make do with the bare minimum.

  • Al Gore's new film

  • Extremes – contemplate that word

  • What are other ways in which you can create extremes – tension with string for example

  • What are specific words that you can attach to the daily practice?  Think about the opposites.

  • Play with light and projections

  • When you get home – what kernel could you take from the residency that could instill a shift – add text, for example, can you interrupt what you are doing?

  • How to connect Australia and Iceland? Pigment; light; air; extremes...

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