Once again I have been using the written word both as a problem solving tool and a potential method of making work. Writing on a continuous roll of till paper has helped to get fleeting ideas down, and as a result I don’t feel too precious about what I write; the words simply flow away as I pull on the paper. I want to be able to examine how I can extract and use words from this stream of consciousness to pull together and create a text that is more concise, yet abstracted further from my already muddled thoughts. I want to develop a series of systems for selecting words and phrases from my writings, abstracting them from their original meanings in the process of creating new ones. I also want to revisit the viewfinder approach – whereby ‘flattening’ the till paper into a 2D image using a photocopier allows for some words to be picked out as well as the aesthetic quality of the photocopied image to give a striking composition of contrast. These images give the impression of something being internal or microscopic, as if being looked at through a microscope. This relationship between micro and macro, internal and external is what I want to carry on exploring. Initially I wanted to move away from what I had already done before, but I have found myself stuck in an ‘internal rut’ where I am getting lost in my own thoughts and trying to put too much emphasis on myself as the subject matter. I need to revert back to looking outwards from myself and discover more source material from elsewhere. If I can find something of interest I can then impress mself onto it in order to find the balance between the internal (me) and the external (not me). I say that the external is not me, but it depends on I look at it. If we relate two concepts together, such as my inner body and the skin that covers it, I am both the internal and external. The same goes for the environment, it could be argued that the climate and weather of the environment is internal to the outer-workings of the physical land. So perhaps I am not all internal, just as the environment isn’t all external. What I need to find however is the balance between the two whereby interaction brings them together in a coherent ‘structure’ of sorts.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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