{"id":36,"date":"2023-01-28T21:39:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T21:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=36"},"modified":"2023-01-29T12:28:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-29T12:28:03","slug":"36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/north-coast.space\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Feelings and Method of Working"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reflections on the Week 3 Task<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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WHAT I WROTE<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

PHOTOGRAPHY ON THE BEACH<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

How do you feel when you make your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feelings<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I leave home for a photoshoot on the beach at sunrise with my dogs, my surroundings will be dark and quiet. As we near the beach, the dogs will know where we are and become excited. I\u2019ll pick up on their anticipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the beach I\u2019ll be excited too. The light changes very quickly from darkness to pre-dawn, dawn and then sunrise. There may be reflections of the clouds on the wet sand. Often I will paddle. The movement of the sea depends on the phase of the tide and the wind speed. My dogs will chase any birds on the sand. All of these elements, light, sea, birds and dogs, are in constant flux and I enjoy trying to capture the essence of the dance. My senses are heightened, I\u2019m in the moment, I\u2019m happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do you physically engage with your materials?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Planning and working<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been doing this so much that I can quickly plan for the session and then be in the moment when I get to the beach. I want to have an idea of the light beforehand, so planning means, checking the weather, wind speed, the tides and times for sunrise and sunset. I\u2019ll do this planning the previous evening. Depending on the tide at sunrise, for example, I will choose which beach to visit. Some beaches are narrow, or inaccessible at high tide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If I want to make long exposures or panoramas, I need to make sure I take a tripod, maybe a tilt-shift lens and filters. For detail work, I\u2019ll take a macro or telephoto lens. If I\u2019m walking some distance, I\u2019ll take a light camera with a wider lens to shoot mainly vistas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REFLECTIONS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Post session reflection<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take some time to discuss this experience in your research journal. What have you taken away that will support your critical thinking and writing process in the future? How has this exercise broadened your understanding of the possibilities for writing in relation to practice?<\/em>FROM THE TASK FOR WEEK 3<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t cover work in the studio or photo editing in my post. If I continue with the \u2018wallet\u2019 theme, these will have to be considered. As will writing and its role in the work. I don\u2019t know how much writing would work in a \u2018fine art\u2019 theme. I already have loads of memories arising directly and indirectly from this wallet, but can I fit them into something cohesive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m quite used to writing about what I\u2019m doing from my previous work life and I find this reflective writing very useful, particularly as I haven\u2019t settled on a theme for this work yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I could write more than I\u2019ve done above, and show more work, if I were to continue the photography on the beach themes. The idea of the work being a performance, a dance, could be portrayed through blurred images, intentional camera movement (ICM) and abstracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FOLLOW UP TASK<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Investigate the following links and identify:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. an artists\u2019 interview<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. an artist talking about their work<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  3. writing as creative work<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    In your research journal compare and contrast these different forms of writing, thinking about the nature and purpose of the writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.artbasel.com\/news\/lubaina-himid\u2014telling-stories-of-the-black-experience-that-are-both-everyday-and-extraordinary-is-what-i-m-here-to-do-<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is a bit of the first (an artist\u2019s interview), but mostly the second (an artist talking about their work). Is there a difference?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The work is interesting in that the artist makes paintings using mundane objects to relate to \u2018the black experience\u2019 in Britain over recent decades, such as invisibility, lack of understanding and disdain. I\u2019m not sure what the event reported in the Guardian that triggered the silent treatment at Lords was (match fixing, betting?), but it doesn\u2019t matter. Would a \u2018white\u2019 team have been treated in the same way?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/www.serpentinegalleries.org\/art-and-ideas\/get-to-know-jennifer-packer\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This is also a bit of the first (an artist\u2019s interview), but mostly the second (an artist talking about their work). The artist mentions two black women, Beonna Taylor and Sandra Bland, who died unlawfully at the hands of police in North America and her feelings about these tragic events. She also mentions the everyday objects she saw as she looked at photos of the raid on Beonna\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I feel ashamed of my first reactions to this video. Male, pale and stale! I took the artist as someone who was trying to use the \u201cBlack Lives Matter\u201d movement as a platform for her own black, feminist agenda to benefit her art. Fortunately I looked her up, saw some more videos and realised she was a well-travelled, articulate and established artist who considered all her work as political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/artreview.com\/i-can-begin-to-learn-again-turner-prize-winning-artist-helen-marten-on-writing-her-first-novel\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    https:\/\/north-coast.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/perec_readings.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    PEREC, GEORGES, \u2018AN ATTEMPT AT EXHAUSTING A PLACE IN PARIS\u2019, WAKEFIELD PRESS (2010).<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    This is a review of the article in the title, where the author sits in a Paris square on separate occasions and notes all the everyday happenings there. It is an example of 3, writing as creative work<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    First of all I learned two new (for me) words:- \u2018infraordinary\u2019 and \u2018endotic\u2019. These describe the banal, commonplace happenings or articles in our everyday life and how we often overlook such things and concentrate on the exotic or the sensational. The article asks us to look at more mundane things, maybe as most of our lives deal with the mundane. Why are they not examined more closely? On page 3 we are asked to , \u201cMake an inventory of your pockets, of your bag. (YOUR WALLET?)<\/strong> Ask yourself about the provenance, the use, what will become of each of the objects you<\/em> take out<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This part really speaks to me as the themes I\u2019ve suggested for my project really fit with the article\u2019s suggestions i.e. taking a close look at a commonplace article (e.g. my wallet \u2013 coincidentally this was carried out by Perec around the time my wallet was being used) or an everyday event \u2013 walking the dog. I am excited and re-assured by this article as it implies that my potential themes could be worthy of following up as research projects. (Do the last two sentences say the same thing? Am I too excited?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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