Joseph Wright Residency at Derby Museum and Art Gallery

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION:

Ok so the winter months have brought with them a clarification of ideas.

To start with though an apology, to myself and others.

I have really struggled with how to approach writing a blog as I research and produce my work. I am often trying to find connections and ‘follow my nose’ when it comes to research and learning to communicate this is proving difficult.

So my new aim with the blog is to think less and post more! Worrying about the blog has meant that I have edited myslef completely out of existence.

I have an unfortunate fear of text, Roland Barthes said,”I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me”,and it is this potential to wound that scares me.

This all may sound silly to some but is true. What if in trying and failing to explain my work I hurt it instead? What if I undermine it comepletely? I accept that this is dramatic but at least its a start?

The first image posted, is a sketch made as I begin to start the ‘making process’. Before this point, I have been researching and trying to clarify, the direction I want to pursue. With the wealth of references and resources available, this narrowing down process has been difficult.

I have however, now decided on two key areas of research:

1. Contemporary Science – The Higgs Boson

2. The ‘hidden science’ contained within the landscape paintings of Joseph Wright of Derby

Both of these areas have at their core an underlying interest in exploring still further the idea of order and chaos.

This is something I will aim to articulate further (and hopefully far more eloquently) in a text that will accompany the exhibition.

Drawing number 1

Vesuvius