We all met at 10 am at WC for our Tutorial with
KyungHwa Shon -our newly adjusted time table jigged due to Academic staffwalk out for a good reason. Now how do I fit three half half term breaks in to the new time table and all the work? Well a woman’s work us never done, looking for a miracle….
Active.
I can’t see any route through to learning support to check my work because of this situation, hate winging it -so disappointed and I had it all organised. Best made plans of mice and men etc. Not being able to record this tutorial has been an added annoyance, very confusing and frustrating – some tutors object to being recorded or make me feel very uncomfortable when I ask. The recording app is great. Game changer…..when I get to use it.
Everyone works differently and I haven’t been able to log the advice given or agreements made. Just reminds me that once you left the house you enter a world made up of just so many factions. -Actively passive.
So I shall apply my everyday strategies and not attempt to push the boundaries on this project. -passively active
I was very much discouraged from doing what I wanted or had been inspired to do in the tutorial so after 4 very frustrating hours, I stopped working on the group project and concentrated on trying to distil down to how I may bring my work together and describe my Practice in 500 words. I think the trick is in the word I use. Made with love, mixed from the kitchen cupboard, sliced love letters, torn essay. Bound with skin. Bound with blood. Clay, ash?
Kyung Hwa Shon advised me to be careful and keep the mystery not too many words so I’ll bin the recipe idea, too wordy and dump the room set photoshoot really didn’t work but I felt my cosmic earthbound bowl shots did. The group agreed. Actively.
I understand more every day GHR and his dislike of explaining. Link below.
”Talk about painting: there’s no point. By conveying a thing through the medium of language, you change it. You construct qualities that can be said, and you leave out the ones that can’t be said but are always the most important.”
I think the route well-trodden I seem to remember most of the greats hated explaining their work. Maybe the audience needs priming. Kenneth Clark said that art should be elevated and leave it’s audience changed. I like that idea. Although I don’t think it helpful to analyse it to death… Death does kill creativity.
Trying to find something that connected everyone in group FA1 and Nayna was not hard, everyone has their own philosophies and Active Passive fits.
Sarah Chalkie Cloonan 