What is it about time? I can’t believe it’s four weeks since I last uploaded images and wrote a very short note. I must confess since my teaching finished I have been a bit under the weather, often happens when you stop a period of extreme activity
I’ve been in the Project Space at College, it’s great to have so much space just to think though I had weighed myself down with the preparation of etching plates. I found the etched images a bit disappointing so may not even print them. I was able to leave my work in place and I’m back in there next Monday, so really looking forward to re discovering what I was up to and see how the research I’ve been doing for my final paper fits
In a studio tutorial it was recommended that I ‘park’ aesthetics. This has left me a little off kilter as what I want to do with my work is show the beauty that’s all around us, that we often miss when we’re so weary from constantly ‘doing’ instead of being…
However though it’s challenging to have to re consider and justify my approach I guess that’s why I’m studying to reinvigorate and inform my practice. To make sense of what I do or am and why
I’m reading mainly about objects and beauty and I’ve found a great small book- Merleau Ponty: The World of Perception, about a series of lectures he gave and it’s much more manageable than The Phenomonology of Perception. And also finding Patricia Cain’s Drawing: The Enactive Evolution of the the Practitioner, particularly insightful as I relate it to my research on drawing and making
I feel I should get off line and continue my reading as I’m teaching the rest of the week so these are my last moments to make any headway on my research paper
