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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  • Drawing Projects/Architecture is a verb : Blueprints for thinking and making.  Outpost 111023 What we have to remember is that what we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our means of questioning it. Werner Heisenberg. Fields of Care. The metaphor of the container and the contained that has guided Western thought with…

  • INSIDE THIS CLAY JUG : Vessel makers that recall the eidetic origination of our own mental space

    Inside This Clay Jug The vessel opens a question of interiority. Clay becomes more than a surface enclosing an empty space; it becomes a body through which interior and exterior can be sensed together. Touch, volume, air, light and memory gather within the vessel, making space something experienced rather than simply described. The clay body…

  • Confronting The Human Body : A Body Of Relations

    The body is not encountered here as a fixed figure but as a field of relations. Looking, drawing, surface and movement begin to unsettle the separation between the body that is seen and the body that sees. The life drawing becomes a threshold where eye, hand, paper, space and flesh enter an uncertain correspondence. What…

  • Raveningham/Trails and Wayfaring/ Finding enlightenment in the ground beneath one’s feet. J. G. Bennett.

    Walking begins close to the ground. The trail is not simply a route through a landscape but a way of becoming situated within it, attentive to what appears beneath the feet and at the edges of perception. To walk is to enter into correspondence with a place through movement, weather, memory and encounter. Perhaps the…

  • spatial practice, alternative photography, fine art, ceramics,making,Russell Moreton, Source: The Light Gatherers, a lecture by Garry Fabian Miller

  • Blue Planet : Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.     ARCHITECTURAL Body An ORGANISM that PERSONS Gins and Arakawa 2002 Although the human condition is a crisis condition if ever there was one, few individuals and societies act with the dispatch a state of emergency requires. The fact that the human condition is a crises condition gets…

  • Molecular Sieve/Performative Apparatuses : CREATING CREATIVE ANTHROPOLOGY INTO TEMPORAL SITES/10 DAYS WINCHESTER

    Molecular Sieve / Performative Apparatuses A spatial apparatus becomes a body in motion. Carried through the temporal conditions of a site, the Molecular Sieve gathers light, movement, memory and encounter through its small aperture. The chamber of the camera becomes a place of attention: something between inside and outside, between looking and being situated. Photography…

  • Melancholy Landscapes : The Plague/Vermilion Sands

    Melancholy Landscapes : The Plague/Vermilion Sands Film Collages, hybrid processes and temporal states Liminality : Literature/Philosophy/Visual Art Landscapes : entering/intruding/emerging (holga819) Existential Gestures : Looking away from the sea Ballard : Vermilion Sands  :  Speculative Fields/Spatial Practices Albert Camus : The Plague, 1947. (Penguin Fiction) The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a…