The blogger interview was well worth taking part in. It is interesting to be pushed to approach your art practice from a different perspective. My aim this week is to bury myself in work. Why do I always feel like this when kids holidays loom? Went to the woods on friday, my last day of freedom before the holidays. Now I am in my final year I am finding it difficult to relax and experiment so much. Need to resolve this mental boundary.
College has started in earnest again, so I’m back to my usual tired mode from too much travelling and sleeping on a friend’s floor. I have been doing quite a bit of research in the library though, and come up with some interesting books. Always a dilemma as to the balance of reading v work, sometimes the ideas can seem so seductive. I’m interested in the research/practice debate beginning in Carolyn Shepherd’s profile interview. I must remember not to overlook the value of learning through making. I like it when the making processes echo the concepts explored in the reading and academic research. My previous work was purely intuitive, and it was hard to develop this way. I think to make thoughtful art the conceptual base needs strengthening too. Maybe debates in the blog will help me to be more reflective. I need to continue drawing as research, a thread that was started as a college seminar and which I need to remember to practice. Richard Taylor’s blog is great for looking at drawing as research.
the image is my first pinhole image from a can camera left in the woods. More on this later….
College has started in earnest again, so I’m back to my ususal tired mode from too much travelling and sleeping on a friend’s floor. I have been doing quite a bit of research in the library though, and come up with some interesting books. Always a dilema as to the balance of reading v work, sometimes the ideas can seem so interesting. I’m interested in the research/practice debate beginning in Carolyn Sheppherd’s profile interview.
Artist explorer based in North Cornwall.
