Date: 23rd
October 2012 Tutor: Angela Rogers
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Reflection on
outcomes since last tutorial
Now, about to prepare for the assessment and essay, am
feeling a little disengaged from the drawing/film project as other work and
life have intervened into that momentum. However, all the elements are in place,
and the time is right. Probably it’s been good to take a break as I did notice
I came to a pause after completing the 60 drawings. This unit has truly been an
exploration of working practice for me – almost a deconstruction. I feel my process has inverted, or been
ordered backwards in order to examine the mechanics and uncover the streams of
thought and connections.
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Current projected aims
and outcomes
Perhaps with the essay I will examine more closely the idea
of minimalism in music that I have come to in order to define that better and
come up with language that will be clear.
Angela asked some questions about the drawings – this is a
different linear, sequential process for me, where I make the process more
visible. However, previous work is always full of rules for me – self-imposed,
driven by the work in hand, but perhaps very hidden – I think implied.
Interesting for me to expose that process, discipline and rules. I’m wary of
making those constructs what the work is about – I think that can be a bit
tedious in art. But I think I will certainly find a way to be more open about
such internal rules.
Musical terms and composition. Again, perhaps full of things
I want to avoid, and yet I totally approach work in this way, and think about
it in musical structures. Finding a way to be more open perhaps, without it
being the way of describing work. I like such things to be hidden, but see that
there may be ways of maintaining that, while alluding to or referencing
structures.
Music in the pacing of work, in drawings the shift into
colour, the way of explaining one art in terms of another, the punctuation and
pauses.
The editing, pacing, transition of moving image drawings all
to come and be resolved. Angela mentioned the slow scrutiny of earlier works –
the material. She also mentioned some work Jennifer is planning with minimal
movement, where the audience is unsure whether it has moved or not – I have a
take on that – I have made work like that – Mask and Seep, but I think it gives
a lot to the audience as the movement is creeping and continual – facemask
drying, bath draining, so they see the movement before their eyes but somehow
can’t locate it.
With this way of current working, I have been holding back
inspiration, and what I am now hoping is that by working on the piece, what it
is about will emerge for me. The drawings are one thing, the activity was a way
of keeping them as they were, without too much of a knowing hand or intention
creeping in to them – now to inverse that, use them and transform them into the
moving image. It never was my intention that the moving image piece simply
showcases the drawings – I want to make them into something else.
The essay – it’s not about fixing my work, but showing that
it is made within a world, that it has context, and that it is not made in
isolation.
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Discussion and
recommendations
Agnes Martin. What I make is not to do with the world.
Interview:
Towards assessment and rest of MA – I equally like to
install work to my own specifications, and also to give up curatorial control.
This is something I have had to learn to like as a moving image artist, and now
find it fascinating when I see my work shown differently, and sometimes badly.
Plans for showing final piece….
My aim now is to find ways of showing everything that the
work is, the processes, sources and references to make it more rich and poetic.
The sense of poetry, actual and imagined. I have fears and allergies about
exposing certain parts – I fear work becoming about its process, rather than a
poetic leap. It will take more than this current project to bring these
elements together.
Reflection
This was a timely tutorial for me, just about to launch into
moving image piece and essay. It gave me a lot to think about, and marked a
coming together of ideas, where I had felt a bit scattered. The biggest point
for me to ponder is when Angela said that what I talk about is not always
present in my MA work. How true, that I have felt artwork and MA artwork to be
different, and I have always felt MA work was not really my own work, as I
never would have started from those points, and have always felt restricted in
the very areas I crave creative freedom. I will write about this separately in
blog.
25th October 2012
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