This is a book I got today at a charity shop. It’s about two boys during World War II. I’m seeing interesting stuff everywhere now about time, memories and how they change. The words in the preface struck a chord. Preface “This book isn’t the work of a historian. I’ve drawn on my childhood recollections… Continue reading A Bag of Marbles
Author: Dave
A retired research scientist, a photographer and a Fine Art student
Lessons
“We are doing that in my Book Club”, said the woman sitting opposite me on the train. I was on the last leg of my journey home from Berlin where I had attended a workshop in video editing. It was a long, strenuous trip ; the U-Bahn from Wittenburgplatz to Bahnhof Zoo, the train from… Continue reading Lessons
Current Studio Practice
This was my presentation (https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/wp-content/uploads/sites/3554/2023/08/Current-Studio-Practice-smaller-David-Wright.pptx), but not really how I presented it! I was expecting some people for another cohort, so I put in some background, but only one was present. I wrote a bit for the other cohort, and here it is, but I didn’t read it out, just improvised. 1 First Page Hi,… Continue reading Current Studio Practice
Making Collage Paper
I’ve been having problems making collage paper that I can add to the pages produced as Photoshop composites and/or gel plate marks, but now I’m getting closer to a practical method. Using Tissue paper and Acrylic inks The method I’m using now is to crumple some strong (with water) tissue paper, partly uncrumple it, spray… Continue reading Making Collage Paper
Lecture from Dr. Brian Eccleshall
I’ll have to edit this part for his title, but it’s about presenting your ongoing work and your final version, and explaining the difference. This part is about retaining the complexity and not over-simplifying our work. Rationalisation in Visual Art This part got my attention. This is one of the four things he’s telling us… Continue reading Lecture from Dr. Brian Eccleshall
Back in my other studios
I got some books this week, so I went to my “studios” to read them. The first one was in a pub in Coleraine on Monday, and the second was on a the train to Belfast on Friday. The Old Courthouse This was in the Weatherspoons, then Granny Annies group and now is unchained. Repainted… Continue reading Back in my other studios
Test Your Boundaries
Session outline. (Week 7) Have you found your boundaries? A session to examine your progress with Testing your Boundaries. Bring to the session an example of where you have come across a boundary and what you have done to work with this to overcome it. Be prepared to discuss this and share your account… Continue reading Test Your Boundaries
Making Day
We had another Making Day last week. Six out of seven of us made it and a couple were able to work outdoors, so it was a lot of fun. I did some gel plate work and a couple of erasure/extraction poems. I am still just experimenting with the poetry technique and I still mess… Continue reading Making Day
A possible Paper?
I’d like to get some work from this MA before an audience. We talked about conferences, seminars, residencies and abstracts of papers last week at our drop-in with Michele, who gave us good info on this. Next day Anna sent me details https://spaces.oca.ac.uk/wallet6/wp-content/uploads/sites/3554/2023/07/CFP-Writing-Artifacts-Edited-Collection.pdf of a CFP (call for papers) on something relevant for me. “… Continue reading A possible Paper?
Defamiliarisation through compositing
What a title! I was just reading an article, “‘Force yourself to see more flatly’: A photographic investigation of the infra-ordinary” by Joanne Lee in Forsdick, C., Leak, A.N. and Phillips, R. (2019) Georges Perec’s geographies : material, performative and textual spaces. 1st edn. London: UCL Press. Lee consciously takes Perec’s suggestion ‘to see more… Continue reading Defamiliarisation through compositing