Drawing/Situatedness and Site : John Berger, simultaneously a now and an elsewhere Drawing has the ability to hold complexities separate enough so as to be read, yet drawings also merge into a perceptive unity marked by a sensation or realisation of intuitive nowness authentically caught in the tension of the line. John Berger’s definition of…

Interactions of Colour and Bodies : Rothko/Neri/Kundera/Schiele, subjects alone in a moment of utter immobility Manuel Neri Milan Kundera Josef Albers Mark Rothko Egon Schiele The use of the word ‘immobility’ recalls an article that Rothko wrote in the 1947 “For me the great achievements of the centuries in which the artist accepted the probable…

Drawing as a participant in amongst a world of active materials Art as Spatial Practice. Space folds : Containing “Spatialities around historicality and sociality” “All that is solid melts into air” Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, (Poetic observation concerning the constant revolutionizing of social conditions) Perceptions now gathering at the end of the millennium. Spatiality, Robert…

Figurative Document : Clay and Pigments   Source: Figurative Document : Clay and Pigments

Diffractive Surfaces : Imaginative Cartographies/Spatialities Speculative Fields/Spatial Practices Site-Specificity/Spatial Practice The distinguishing characteristic of today’s site-oriented art is the way in which both the art work’s relationship to the actuality of a location (as site) and the social conditions of the institutional frame (as site) are subordinated to a discursively determined site that is delineated…

Transformative Drawing and Cyanotype Processes : The Drowned World, JG Ballard/Humanity an Emotional History, Stuart Walton. Biosphere (Ecology and Entropy) 2012., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr. Transformative Drawing Processes Sun Printed Cyanotype The sun has gone mad and stripped the earth of its ionosphere. For decades blasting radiation has poured upon earth, melting the polar…

Anthropological Entanglements/Emergent Landscapes : Strange Tools/The Rings of Saturn   Walking into Emergent Landscapes : Covehithe Beach The OLD WAYS, a JOURNEY ON FOOT, Robert Macfarlane “ Walking was a means of personal myth-making, but it also shaped his everyday longings: Edward Thomas not only thought on paths and of them, but also with them.”…

Ecological approaches/affordances to aesthetic perception/production When I gather together the animals, arguments, molecules, suggestions, forces, interpretations, sounds, people, and images of this study, one theme emerges. The modern story of disenchantment leaves out important things, and it neglects crucial sources of ethical generosity in doing so. Without modes of enchantment, we might not have the…

Panspermia 2010/Banga, Patti Smith : Layered Drawings/Silent readings/diagrams/ceramics of imaginary space Patti Smith – After The Gold Rush – Banga, 2012 (A Neil Young Song). Reading : Slow Philosophy With Fire, Richard Hirsch A Life Between Chance and Design (invites the unknown) Scott Meyer 2012 Hirsch takes us to the heart of the interface between ageless…

Inquiry is essentially the way of learning : Fragile Architectures of Hapticity and Time In an era in which architecture is once more learning its potential as a form of inquiry, rather than as a service — as a producer of knowledge, and not merely of ‘projects’. Brett Steele, Atlas-Tectonics in Barkow Leibininger, Bricoleur Bricolage.…