Right, I’ve established the three words crucial to my practice, but where to go from here? One piece of past advice from tutors is to map concerns. My tendency is to over-complicate, so mapping risks submersion in too much detail. Never-the-less, I think this it’s the way to go…
Interesting – after some initial complications and brain ache, this approach has worked. It’s enabled me to streamline my thoughts, identify and remove duplications, and simplify connections. It’s apparent now my key concerns are fewer than I thought – the gaze and the fracture. It’s immediately obvious (why wasn’t it before?) that the photograph is a ‘red herring’ – not a concern, but rather the vehicle upon which these concerns are enacted, in a similar way as selecting artists work to discuss and explore ideas. At this point, the reader may well be saying ‘What‘??? But, believe me, I find this realisation crucial.
So, what’s the best way to document what I’ve found? My first attempt was to list the data hierarchically under headings, sub-headings, etc. This seemed to work fine but, when I tried to map this pictorially to reveal the relationships between elements, it quickly fell apart to reveal duplications and differing results to those I’d originally been aware of. The outcome is here…[http://clairemanning.co.uk/z_concepts_map.html]
