So, time for some reflections as I bring the blog here on Degrees Unedited to a close later this week
Nearly a month has past since the final assessment, the results are due on Friday. As with other graduating students my unwinding mind has been full of flashbacks to earlier work and tutorials. I have thought more about the first year in the last few weeks that ever. What was I looking for, what was I hoping would happen?
I was advised in my first summative assessment to find out what my work was about. This has been my pursuit in everything I have done, essays, sketchbooks, paintings. I have a compulsion to make work, to make connections with the history of geometric abstraction and to look for echoes and rhythms in the places of today. I have discovered that for me there is a vital link between the act of seeing and the physical awareness of moving. These two activities are deeply satisfied by solitary walking in New York and London. Then there is the outputting of visual information and the physical experience of re-enacting this by painting and drawing in the studio. Walking in the city and working in the studio is a twofold activity. The rhythm of one setting the structure of the other. The architectonic geometry giving playful organisation to the space, the gesture establishing the experience and feeling of physical motion.
Richard Taylor insightfully asked me in the blogger profile in July 2010, about the relevance of movement and the performative element to my practice. I’m not sure that I fully understood the questions then, I feel now that they need continued consideration…
Hand held film showing detail of ‘Tea Garden 002’ 2012, Marion Piper.
