Category: Thoughts and Reflections
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Representation of Space in Space
I’ve been reading Edward Soja’s Thirdspace (1996) and Postmodern Geographies (1989) and Perceptions of the Environment (2000) by Tim Ingold. “Space hides consequence from us now.” (Berger in Soja 1989 p.22) Space does hide consequence from those who have power.. We throw out rubbish and it goes ‘somewhere.’ We use electricity that comes from ‘somewhere.’ …
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Show Time Again. The Countdown Begins.
It is roughly 100 days until the MA show here at the Dartington Campus of the University College Falmouth. It is a very strange experience—the Dartington Campus will move to the main college at the end of the year. There is a definitive sense of a winding down of place happening here that is both…
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Cosgrove on Landscape Painting
One of the consistent purposes of landscape painting has been to present an image of order and proportioned control… there is an inherent conservatism in the landscape idea, in its celebration of property and of an unchanging status quo, in its suppression of tensions between groups in the landscape. (Cosgrove, 1985, p. 58, original emphasis)…
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Disembodied and Engaged Aesthetics
As a painter in a Master’s course for Arts and Ecology, I am to produce a written work that attempts to synthesize my interests. My hope is to hash out ideas and get my writing chops up right here on this page. I had recently read Aesthetics & Nature, and wrote briefly about aesthetics. Aesthetics…
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Pirate Utopia in the Presence of High Way Desolation
Last night, in Philadelphia, I fell into a Pirate Utopia entirely enabled by the construction of I-95. It was 2 a.m. in the morning and we played music loud with the front door open. The rest of the buildings on the block had long since crumbled away from the negative effect of the huge berm…
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4 weeks to Mozambique! Give yourself a Hand?
Today marks the 4 week countdown to Mozambique! I am incredibly excited to expand my world view in this fashion and am kicking into high gear to get ready. We are slowly jumping the hurdles that are needed to accomplish this, and I am happy to report that we got our shots this morning for…
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The Integrity of the Picture Plane.
Is this what I keep mentioning as the elusive quality that I chase in paintings of late? This was a phrase popularized by C. Greenberg, primarily in regards to the flattening of painting that occurred throughout modernism. I read this as an acknowledgement of paintings form as the medium(/meaning?) was being deconstructed: a self awareness.…
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I’ve got an interview for Grad School!
So. In case I haven’t mentioned it, I have started hearing back from grad schools. The first three that came in were rejections. The fourth, was a request that I show up for an interview. I return to writing as I prepare for that interview, and I aim to get my words together for that…
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An interesting Art scam that just happened to me..
Idea!! I was listening to this american life and they mentioned a way to fight back, and that is to find ways to waste the person’s time on the other end. Send them on a wild goose chase if you will, while knowing that it is a scam. How do we waste their time so…
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I found canvas put out for the trash.
Reminds me of art school! I found them down the street from us in South Philly. There was something sad about the fact that they were given up… objects at one point that were embedded with care. I took home about 12 of them. They are in surprisingly good condition. The first painting I am…
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Deleuzian Difference vs. how I’ve been thinking of “contrast” lately.
Space as the result of process. I have been thinking about contrast in several different forms since someone asked me if I paint light to dark, or dark to light. The answer is neither. After setting up the painting, I have a process of pulling the lights and pushing the darks. I end up defining…