WIP Growing mycelium into a face form I started this process weeks ago with 2 faces. One had a great mushroom flush within 2 weeks, but the body/construct was crumbling so I discarded it for recycling (composting another work which is outside in the garden). It seems the growing medium should have much more paper […]
Exercise 3.4: Thinking through the structure for the Parallel Project In Part Two you began to think about the Parallel Project and areas of your practice that you would like to develop further. Take a similar approach to that in Part One: Visual Mapping and spend some time mapping out initial ideas using your experience […]
From the study material: You will be introduced to a variety of short texts, some that you will be guided through in depth, others that will be offered more like a taster for ideas that whet your appetite. It is possible that an essay from a particular author or anthology resonates with your work and […]
24 August 2020 I had a positive and inspirational virtual meeting with my tutor to discuss her assessment of my work done in my learning blog for the first part of this course. I also wanted to discuss my temporary situation due to lockdown which is concerned with my access to the online course material […]
DAILY PRACTICE During my reading and research for this first part of UVC 2, I became aware of ideas around a practice of doing things repetitively, whether it is deliberate or unintended, action that flows from it. I love walking in nature……where I collect ‘physical objects’. Do I do it out of habit? What pushes […]
In this study blog I will discuss three topics and show the research and exercises as requested in my online study material. Idea and Reality Art and Life Action as habit, method and rule Exercise 1 Practicing The above image was made by an artist who, for most of her life, seemed to work under […]
PROJECT BASIC PAINT APPLICATION I am intrigued by the painting example under the heading, Introduction. This work reminds me of Adrian Ghenie – but it is the colours, not the way the paint is applied – and this part of the course will focus on application of paint. ( I added an extra blog […]