Reflections since the last tutorial
Still struggling with keeping up with workload since job change, I have managed to continue working on my paintings at night and in moments of frustration.
Concerned about the move from various media and material collisions in MA2 to painting in MA3, a medium I haven’t worked in since starting the MA in 2017. Feels like a waste to move from those investigations.
Discussion and recommendations
Notes and discussions with Michele Whiting:
Sent Michele an email with images of my current paintings in process:
Discussing the tactility and touch - the process of making
The light - search - searching
Process of making - the link between body and the making
The light coming through - monochromatic abstract paintings - 1970’s
Materials elements in the mix
The tension that I’m trying to work with is the place where the work resides
Writing is a similar space -
Cathartic moments - not present but in the moments - conceptually a similar space - painting as an object - absorption of texture, your touch and process and the other idea of light that’s there and apparent - whether to consider it or not is my intention
Collapsing - rules around the painting - more about absorptions
You can see your weight - own and admit - into my methods - in my methodology and its evident in my work, the construction not removed in the sense of a paintbrush
An area in art practice - mise-en-abyme
Light - Sandback - Turell - Flavin - dichotomy - process - working with the dark - sucks you in and the light forces you to stand back - metaphysical thing - go a lot further - elements are really there - held on to them in a polite way - let go and just deal with them - Michele worked with soot - alludes you as you try to fix it
Think about it - it’s very elemental - what can I use to force this really come through, the poetry to come through,
A surface is an object, not painting -
My investigation is monochromatic - texture, touch, light,
Anticipation and interruptions - poetry - write as I’m working - a response to my body and the surface and the body working on the material - write about how it feels like - feel the space and the ideology of the space and open it up - thinks about what my body is doing in relation to the surface - embodying the process - what does that mean, how am i doing it? Think about it philosophically - keep digging into the properties - the investigation.
Document the process - through video - don’t worry about editing - fixed camera- amass the documentation and the output - it will find itself - investigate the doing - what’s happening -
Defying the normal painting standards - the Stuckists won’t like me - I’m doing the drawing - the primacy of drawing - Dianna Pepperbridge - the bible of drawing - find your sense in it - understand drawing as an idiom
Agreed actions (if any)
- keep working with the painting,
- film the process - front-facing fixed camera, continuous shoot.
- write during the process - how do they work together
- consider the paintings are objects