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A journal, sketchbook and documentary record of my journey through the Visual Arts: Fine Art Digital Masters Course at the Camberwell College, University of the Arts London.

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Clinging to this mass of life, of ceaseless movement, love and loss, how is each one to measure the solitude of existence against the weight of one another’s proximity?

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Online Show Final Layout
Back to Earth and Waiting
Weightless Work
Distilling Essences
Work Progressing…
Ambivalence
Experimental Form
Waiting for Enshrinement
Group Critique
Online Show Update
Paul Caldwell on Writing for Artists
Critical Evaluation
Show Installation Guide
Experimenting with Logos’ Internal Voice
Low-Frequency Track for Logos
What I would have like to have done but did not
Creativity and Life Cycles of Artists
Prose Poems
Performance
The Raum Gallery: Between Spaces
Logos: 1/3 of a Proposal
Tutorial 8.2: 19 June 2020. Jonathan Kearney
Enshrinement: Installation Notes
Enshrinement: 1/3 of a Proposal
The Future and the Past in One Place
Blog Journal Summary
Formulation of future plans to continue my personal and professional development
Mitigating the Impact of Coranavirus on the Delivery of the Project Proposal
Residency 2020: Trying Out Drawing on New Laptop
Residency 2020: British Library, Qatar Foundation Project
Residency 2020: Letterpress Workshop
Residency 2020: Gallery Visits
Residency 2020: Group Tutorials
Consideration of Sound Management
Residency: Pure Data Workshop
Residency 2020: Well Being, Intellectual Property and Zines
Residency 2020: V&A Digital Art Collection
Residency 2020: Multichannel Workshop
Residency 2020: Group Tutorial with Kaori Homma
Residency 2020: Cyanotype Workshop
Symposium: Summary Thoughts
After Symposium 2: 3. Questions to Self
Online Show: Skype Chat with Aristotle
After Symposium 2: 2. Response to Questions Raised
After Symposium 2: 1. Script and Alternative
The Kiln, the Kiln, Oh the Kiln
WITD – Resuming and Continuing
Tutorial 8: 13 May 2020. Jonathan Kearney
Symposium 2 Video
Tutorial 7: 18 March 2020, Jonathan Kearney
Symposium Script 2 – Final Resolution
Symposium 2 Script Outline
Ideas for New Work 1
Day Eleven and Twelve – WITD
Day Ten – WITD
Day Nine – WITD
Day Eight – WITD
Improvement on Stand
Working Stand for WITD
Cat – Essay
Day Seven – WITD
Day Six – WITD
Virtual Space Work Flow
Day Five – WITD
Day Four of WITD
Third Day of WITD
Second Day and New Ideas – WITD
Second Phase of Third Work – WITD
Handling Pieces: The Tactile and the Virtual
It is All a Matter of Scale: the Miniature Museum and the Monumental
Finishing and Preparing Enshrinement
Blog Restoration Complete!
From a Small Beginning
Tube Clamp Suppliers
Process and Ritual
Online Show Spaces 3
Logos Model
Online Show Spaces 2
Green Screen Test
Alternative Exhibition Spaces and a Gecko
Creating a Binaural Headset
Tracking Dolly Test
Online Show and Spaces
Continuing Modelling
Modelling
“Modernism, Freedom, Sculpture: On”
Oracle to Logos
New Font Creation
A Moment of Change
Text(ure) – Millet, Allegory and Readings
Building the ‘Egg’ Framework for ‘What’s the Difference?’
Lettering Logos
An Icon of Change: The Kiln
A New Font
Two Things About Writing on the Sculpture
Technical Planning for Video Work
Adapting and Videoing
The Erosion of Words Like Memory Raises Curiosity Over Meaning
Logos – Title
Binary Vision
Research Discussion Videos
Words Without Title
Flesh Made Stone
Tabula Rasa – Again
Clearing the Decks and Timetabling
Website Disaster Averted
Display: Stands and Supports
Kant on the Infinite – Critique of Pure Reason
Sound from Far and Within
Orpheus and Eurydice
Research Discussion: Introductory Video
Thought for Implementation
Research Discussion Preliminaries
Stage by Stage
Segmentation and Culture
Helmet of the Sun God
Subwoofers: To Port or To Seal
Gesture, Imprint, Matrix
Light of the Fading Day: A Start
Alembic
Metamerism: Why Make It So Difficult
The Gut
Reflections on Concept Sketches
Passive Resistance
Conversation, Intersubjectivity and the Suspension of Reality
Mnemosyne
Subject-Object Relationship
Angles, Atoms and Rhythm: A Reference
More Studies and Why
Between Theory and Practice
Skype Chat 4.8: Unit 2
A Time for Reflection
Mythopoeia V – Hope
Randomness and Contingency
Assessing Nuances and Focus
Skype Chat 4.6: Economics of Being an Artist
Living Presence Response: A Description of the Ineffable?
Living Presence Response
Constructing Irretrievable Narratives to Living Presence Response
Flowers for Algernon
A Place for Tags and Categories
Skype Chat 4.5: Andy Lomas
Project Proposal V 3.1
Skype Chat 4.4: On Focus and Attention Span
Turntable Idea
Maquette for Suspended Sculpture
A Conversation With Taiyo
Spes Contra Spem
Finding a Title
Restarting Blender… and Making
Skype Chat 4.3: A Philosophical Interlude
Research Statement
Tutorial 6: 15 October 2019. Jonathan Kearney
Experiment 3 for Conversant Pieces
Experiment 1 for conversant pieces
Experiment 2 for conversant pieces
Skype Chat 4.2: Making Sense of the World
About to Start Unit 2
William Kentridge: No Need to Comment
Treasure
Tutorial 5: 04 October 2019. Gareth Polmeer
Palimpsest
Skype Chat 4.1: Unit 1 Assessment and Process & Ars Electronica
Wolfgang Gil: Maleable Sound as Sculpture
Research Statement: Draft for Tutorial and Editing
Iterations or Something Different?
Amputation
Evolutionary Space
A Correspondence: Marguerite Humeau
Reflection
Research Statement: Taking Another Direction
Low Residency 2019 Day 3: Morehshin Allahyaai
Art and Science
Finishing Porcelain
Methodology
Tutorial 4: 01 August 2019. Gareth Polmeer
First Circuit
Andrew Lord: A Case of Phusis
On Materiality
PD Pi Uno and Sharp
Constellations of the Small Make the Universe
Third Phase of Unit One: Continued
Third Phase of Unit One
Interim Show: On Titles
History and Shape-shifting Across Time: Rethinking a Tutorial
Idea for Sonic Circumvention
Details Regarding Sonic Circumvention
Return
Mythopoeia IV: Ancestor
Mythopoeia IV
“Impromptu” – 2 Girls Café Gallery
Impromptu: Emperor at 2 Girls Gallery
Skype Chat 3.5: Research Statement 2
Sight and Touch: Molyneux’s Problem
Critique on Latest Study
Tutorial 3: Jonathan Kearney – 17 June 2019
Skype Chat 3.3: Four Assumptions
Skype Chat 3.4: Research Statement I
Research Statement in Plain English
Initial Hypothesis: Research Statement
Skype Chat 3.2: Jonny Briggs
Research Statement: Preliminary Title
Why “Fine” in Art?
Skype Chat 3.1 – An Introduction to the Research Statement
Now, Then and To Come
For One and for the Other
What Are My Intentions for the Third Phase?
Between Two Worlds
Can Rhythm be a thing in “Static” Visual Arts?
Psychological Voltage
What is the Difference etc?
Studies for H
Research Statement: A Start
Studies in Artificiality
Zoans: Studies in Porcelain for H
Talking of Origins
Zuihitsu – Assay – Essay – Blog
Zoan: H Emerges from Ambivalence
Instruments of Gender
Elusive Directions: Taxonomy and Mereology
Digital Mapping Workshop: Marius Simkus
Low Residency: Day 4 – Sound Workshop
Pure Data
Language and Shape
Low Residency – Day 2: Group Tutorials
Impromptu 2.0: Video for
A Decision Made
Grappling with the Angel
Significance and Meaning and the Mid Point Review
Mid Point Review
Mid-Point Review
Low Residency – Day 1: Collaborative Project
Low Residency 2019
Skype Chat 2.6 – Sound with Edward Kelly
Do Shadows Dance When There Is No Light?
Traces, Thoughts and Transformations
Logos/Oracle – only when I do do I know
Skype Chat 2.5 – The Anthropology of the Object
Dissecting Logos
Skype Chat 2.4: The Practice of Everyday Life
Oracle Respoken: Large Scale Maquette
As It Was, So It Is: a failure to learn from
Mea Culpa Restored
Skype Chat 2.3: Artist’s Talk – Xavier Sole Mora
Mythopoeia II: Worship
Control
Tutorial 2.1: 17 January 2019. Jonathan Kearney
Anthropology and Archaeology
Skype Chat: 2.2 – Interaction, Narrative and Play
Chat Session 2.1: Interaction, Immersion and Control
Opening Possibilities
Dimensional Thought Experiment: Worlds Imagined and Recreated
Uncertainty, Distance and Time or I Caught My Thumb in the Car Door
Labelling the World
Hermaphroditus
Uniformity, Local Conditions and Culture
A Reminder When Writing
Learning New Things
Mea Culpa Leads to a Unification
The Origin of Monsters and Imaginal Discs
Finished Graven Creature
Skype Chat 1.9: Nick Lambert – Digital Practice
Graven Image of Creature
Start of a Graphic Narrative
Chat Session 1.10 – Artist’s Talk
The Ritual of Walking
Mythopoeia I: post-truth-hurtling Video
Collaboration
Virtual Particles
Mythopoeia I: post-truth-hurtling
Chat Session 1.8: Elusive Taxonomies 2
A Seal and Its Significance
Ancestral II
Mythopoiea and Metamorphosis
Project Proposal Renewed
What is the Character of a Myth?
Breakthrough from the Simplest Source
Chat Session 1.7: Elusive Taxonomies
Oracle: Maquette 3 – End of a Phase
Fall
Moon walk
A Cyclic Return
Oracle: photos of maquette 2
Relic and Ritual
Oracle: Maquette 2
Skype Chat 1.6: Coding
Oracle: Maquette 1
Drawing 5: Ennoia
Impetus
Drawing 4: Some Sort of Story Starts to Emerge
Skype Chat 1.5: Unit 1 and Project Proposal
Leaving Breadcrumbs and Getting Lost in the Process, Outcome and Acceptance
Drawing Studies
Drawing Studies 2: The Simplicity
Drawing Study 1: A Friend Revisited
Tutorial 1: 01 November 2018. Jonathan Kearney
Chat Session 1.4: Library Induction
Long Words: short hand for smaller ones
Action Research and Reflection: Jonathan Kearney Lecture
Post Truth Hurtling
More on Tags
A Foreign Land from Familiar Things
Source of Motion
Premiere Pro
Unseen Cause
Reality and the Shadow
The Soul of a Shadow: Project Idea 2
A Sculpture Waiting for Meaning: Project Idea 1
Chat Session 1.3: Symposium 1 Second Week
What to Do with Tags?
Storm Callum
Sound Palimpsest
Tabula Rasa
Chat Session 1.2: Symposium 1 First Week
Art and the Machine: Thought 1
Ancestral
The Bowerbird’s Creation
Symposium I
Preparing for Symposium I
Skype Chat 1.1: A Beginning