Well I still need to do ruthless editing though feel that I am making some progress. I’ve written about beauty and objects and am intending to start on the artist and viewer today. Once that is drafted I’ll have three of my five chapters-wow only the body and space to go…
An interesting thing I’ve noticed, although the written/theory side does prevent me from the practical making of work, it really does help make some sense of the tangled web of thoughts in my head. Also it is helping me to get a better feel for where my practice may be located amongst the myriad of contemporary practices
So here’s to a deep breath and back into ‘Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century’ New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York- great photographs and essays on contemporary practice
All seems to fall away as I attempt to find the words to answer my research question, though of course there is no answer…
I am constantly in a state of discomfort with small moments of delight as I try to make sense of my thoughts
Yet I know that the thought is changed as soon as I utter the word, again as I scribe it and tease it with others into a sentence to form a paragraph and then a chapter and finally a paper
And a paper that requires ruthless editing to ensure it makes sense and has something to say even if it’s not as profound as I hope…
So off I go with the hope that John Robert can help me work things out through his ‘The Intangibillities of Form: Skill and Deskilling in Art After the Readymade’. Though he’s already thrown me off kilter with his comment on page 6 of his preface ‘art’s digital temporality and post -visual transformation into social technique’ A whole new box of frogs to contend with oh dear…
