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Reflection

August 25, 2019March 11, 2020Alexis

 

 

As I work, I continually rediscover that to leave traces of how a work has been done is to allow its continual remaking once my part is completed.

 

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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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  • 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

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