Conversations about Books and Blogs

Because of lack of communication with the OCA, the group seminar about Artist Statements is delayed, and instead, discussed my recent booklist with Emma.

http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/booklist.html

These books are the ones I return to and which contain ideas I often mull over in my mind. It's interesting to sum them up quickly, and to try to say what it is about them. From the list, I can see that what links them is how they describe in different ways how objects and ideas, or objects and objects, or ideas and ideas, combine. It's what is formed when they combine or collide. They give birth to something else, and that is the thing which interests me. This simple truth was never so clear to me before - I have seen it in Moving Image - it's what I aim for, to bring two chosen elements together, having an idea what they will create, but then letting them be this other thing. Layers creating negative space.

Alexa and I discussed the current Studio Practice project, and that although it is so long, when it comes to the assessment, we still only can submit eight blog entries. She has thought of a great idea which I plan to adopt, to split the project into eight elements, set them up as blogs, and update them as time goes on. I think this is such an intelligent way of going about things, rather than cutting and pasting, and cramming in at the end - it will naturally evolve in eight blogs and make more sense. It feels like a more natural way of working to me, as I like to have multiple things going on, and yet there is still an element of linear progress. So research can be one part, and so on.

I am about to go through the mind mapping ideas with my dyslexia tutor, which I think will relate. I can feel new ways of organising thoughts coming up this year - or ways of working which match the way my mind already thinks.

11th June 2012

Further

Tutors have suggested various additions to booklist as it grows - some critiques of Barthes. I have noticed that Barthes is often mentioned and critiqued in other books, so I could now collate and note that.


Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.


Species of Spaces by Georges Perec.


And to extend my booklist beyond the list of favoured and revisited ones I have started with into more challenging material. 
Will do.