Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence

Spatial practices of clay, ceramic, drawing, bodies, places and making.

Spatial Practice

Architecture, sites, spatial situations, bodies, inhabitation, installations, spatial propositions.

Ceramic Bodies

Clay, ceramic sculpture, vessels, apertures, surfaces, firing, ceramic interiors, ceramic atmospheres.

Drawing / Image

Drawing, cyanotype, photography, diagram, mapping, collage, visual experiments.

Interiority / Atmosphere

Bachelard, refuge, reverie, innerness, thresholds, chambers, light, shadow, atmosphere, sensing.

Making / Materiality

Studio practice, making, material resistance, gesture, process, firing, construction, surface, force.

Research / Working Texts

Reading, theoretical writing, notes, research propositions, older texts being re-entered, speculative learning.

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  • Locality/Social Complexity and the Everyday : Works on Paper Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide.…

  • Alternative Realities : Experimental documents, visual material from site based projects. Twilight Abstraction : Liminal Zone. Marking Stick : Leylines, Directions and Sites. Found Objects : Archaeological Photogram When you make photograms, without the use of a camera, you can indeed call that abstract photography, as the lens and the corresponding registration medium are lacking.…

  • Book/Assemblages/Mapping : Body, Static Movement, Blueprints Spatial Practices Architecture, Fine Art, Performance Blueprint, Photogram and Collage. a thousand plateaus Deleuze, Guattari Assemblage The beauty of the assemblage is that, since it lacks organization, it can draw into its body any number of disparate elements. The book itself can be an assemblage, but its status as…

  • The Film Stilled : Photograms/Assemblages/ Reading Texts The Film stilled, Raymond Bellour pdf, Chris Marker Spatial Apparatus : Pinhole Photography/Cyanotype,  Tate Turbine Hall. From the photogram to the pictogram : on Chris Markers La Jetee, Reda Bensmaia. Camera Obscura, Sept 1990. Nostalgia and La Jetee Karla Huebner The Mirrored Abbey :  The Photographic Aesthetics of…

  • Colouring Light Brian Clarke An Artist Apart/Unframing Architecture The arts, as technologies, are carried along in the same unpredictable history. Their very finality is uncertain. How then can one found a school of art? Perhaps precisely by bringing together artists, that is to say, technicians, who are no longer assured of disciplinary borders, who explore…

  • Immaterial Architectures : Organizing Structures/Making Metaphysical Space Architectural Surface : Constructional Forms in Glass Organizing Structures : Artist Notebook, Body/Landscape Christopher Wilmarth ; Poetics/Duality of Light and gravity Other Architecture Constructing Metaphysical Space Wilmarth’s art reveals his essential concern with the mystical and physical properties of light, especially the ways in which light evokes reverie…

  • Postmodern : Contested Landscapes for Melancholy Postmodern : Ever Changing, Fleeting, Positive, Nihilistic, “There are no simple concepts. Every concept has components and is defined by them. It therefore has a combination [chiffre]. It is a multiplicity, although not every multiplicity is conceptual… Not only do Descartes, Hegel, and Feuerbach not begin with the same…

  • Blue and Gray Paintings : CELL COURT DOMAIN FIELDS Subjectivity and The Instant The Numinous In the last decades of the twentieth Century, philosophy witnessed a marked preoccupation with the discontinuous and the disruptive. Translator’s Preface, Eileen Rizo-Patron. Intuition of the Instant, Gaston Bachelard. Source: Blue and Gray Paintings : CELL COURT DOMAIN FIELDS

  • Source: Exploratory Practices : Archive/Collage/Mapping Exploratory Practices : Archive/Collage/Mapping Displayed Books Part of Visiting The Archive/Waveney and Blyth Arts 2011-2018 Exploratory Workshop Pipers Places, Richard Ingrams. John Piper. 1983 The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard. 1964 The Fate of Place, A Philosophical History. Edward S. Casey. 1997 The Experience of Landscape, paintings,drawings and photographs, Arts…

  • Raveningham Sculpture Trail : Working Notes, Sensing Space a camp within a creative landscape WORKING NOTES IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURES MAKING IN THE LANDSCAPE SCULPTURE TRAIL 2018 The House-sheds : Camping There’s more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you…