My 1 click Amazon orders (fatal!) are arriving and still more to come. I received a wonderful book on Angela de la Cruz yesterday- I saw her work some years ago in Camden Art centre. Her approach to painting and sculpture and the way in which she brings the two together are inspirational and I realise how much more I can do –to work more experimentally and not think of painting as a 2 d process-
I have also been revisiting Eva Hesse and another inspirational book on her studio works.
Enjoying the painting but feel it’s time to do some proper research!!! I have been playing with paint for a month now just to see where its leading me-there are a few things emerging and a lot of early experiments being rejected.
I have revisited my final MA project report which included an examination of the phenomenology of illness and concepts of deconstruction. Research methods included theoretical discussion of the philosophy of being and of human existence and attitudes to death.
Heidegger saw mortality of life as centrally important to our understanding of life and referred to human existence as “being towards death”. He sees life as being a limited time stretching from birth to death and argues that in order to understand life we should understand ourselves as being finite. So for Heidegger life is a constant move towards death and focuses on the temporal essence of human existence. His phenomenological argument concerning death is that we do not actually experience death as death is a state of nothingness. Rather we can only experience an anticipation of death.
Researching “Process Art” I discovered William Basinski
A review of William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops
You are slowly being destroyed. It’s imperceptible in the scheme of a day or a week or even a year, but you are aging, and your body is degrading. As your cells synthesize the very proteins that allow you to live, they also release free radicals, oxidants that literally perforate your tissue and cause you to grow progressively less able to perform as you did at your peak. By the time you reach 80, you will literally be full of holes, and though you’ll never notice a single one of them, you will inevitably feel their collective effect. Aging and degradation are forces of nature, functions of living, and understanding them can be as terrifying as it is gratifying.
Jump up ^ Source: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/577-the-disintegration-loops-i-iv/
