Russell Moreton : Matter(s) in Correspondence

The English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel discovered the procedure in 1842.[1] Though the process was developed by Herschel, he considered it as mainly a means of reproducing notes and diagrams, as in blueprints.[2] It was Anna Atkins who brought this to photography. She created a limited series of cyanotype books that documented ferns and other plant life from her extensive seaweed collection.[3] Atkins placed specimens directly onto coated paper, allowing the action of light to create a silhouette effect. By using this photogram process, Anna Atkins is regarded as the first female photographer.[4]

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Mesh/Material/Light, Cyanotype Process

Locality/Social Complexity- Works on Paper

DSC_6026 Hortus Conclusus

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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. No longer do you have pictures of reality or objects; you only have their shadows. It is a bit like Plato’s cave, where one could only imagine reality; the objects themselves were not visible.
—Thomas Ruff

Waverley Abbey, interior with pinhole camera

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 an assemblage does not prevent it from containing assemblages within itself or entering into new assemblages with readers, libraries, bonfires, bookstores, etc.

Becoming
Body Without Organs
Nomad
Rhizome
Smooth Space
State
War Machine

http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/glossary.html

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Assemblage/Garden Design : Architectural Plan/Victorian Corset

DSC_6288 Studio Assemblages

The 1960s Body Through Sculptural Movement and Static Dance
Maya Bartel

DSC_6217 Winchester Cathedral : Static Movement/Space for Peace

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 Decay

Nothingness, Nostalgia and the Absence of Reason.
The Aesthetics of Decay, Dylan Trigg,

The Custodians, Richard Cowper 1976.
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Humanity : An Emotional History
Stuart Walton. 2004

Fear
Anger
Disgust
Sadness
Jealousy
Contempt
Shame
Embarrassment
Surprise
Happiness

Camera/Room Obscura : Physical Contact Print
Light Writing : Surface Architectures
Kilquhanity, Scotland.

Sculptural Form/Everyday Interior (Bramdean)
Scarred Time/Photographic Surface/Negative

Sylviane Agacinski, IN-BETWEEN (a notion which is neither a concept nor an image, Tschumi)

At some time, perhaps many times in his life , every man is likely to meet with a thing in art or nature or human life or books which astonishes and gives him a profound satisfaction, not so much because it is rich or beautiful or strange , as because it is a symbol of a thing which, without the symbol, he could never grasp and enjoy.

Edward Thomas
The Inn/One Green Field

In the course of a lifetime there are few decisive conversations: with a classmate in high school, a father or mother, a best friend, an admired mentor, a person whose newfound presence will shape the rest of our existence.
Alain Fleischer, LE  FRESNOY : WHY THAT? WHY THERE?
Bernard Tschumi : Architecture In/Between

Architecture, Light, Art,

The real drawing takes place in the mind, Brian Clarke

Drawing in a volume, Zaha Hadid

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 and generates sensations of space and containment.

The Architecture of Natural Light : Henry Plummer

EVANESCENCE
Orchestration of light to mutate through time

Intensity and integrity of Wilmarth’s practice/vision.

PROCESSION
Choreography of light/moving eye

VEILS OF GLASS
Refraction of light/diaphanous film

Wilmarth made possibly his strongest, most beautiful works on paper, exploring a new level of expression while retaining continuity with past work.

ATOMIZATION
Sifting of light/through a porous screen

These drawings also contain allusions to the human presence. Their haunting, foreboding quality is prefigured in the grave, austere tones of some of the glass and steel structures.

CANALIZATION
Channelling of light/through a hollow mass

The duality of light and shadow and contrasts between abstraction and representation continue to be central concerns in his final drawings.

ATMOSPHERIC SILENCE
Suffusion of light with a unified mood

Wilmarth’s sculptures from the early 1980’s are influenced by the poetry of Stephane Mallarme.To affirm Mallarme’s emphasis on the spiritual, the artist used a simple ovoid form, evoking a multitude of symbols, including the human head. These ovoids were made of blown glass, which Wilmarth viewed as “frozen breath”. The artist pursued this figurative impulse into the mid 1980s, combining the anthropomorphic ovoid shapes with the larger abstract forms of his earlier sculpture.

LUMINESCENCE
Materialization of light in physical matter

Wilmarth composed with planes of delicate colour and light, placing plates of blackened steel behind translucent sheets of etched glass imbued with a luminous, greenish cast.

“He employed a painterly technique that emphasized the tactility and fichness of his materials, which like an alchemist he persistently sought to transform. He continually examined the concept of duality: contrasts between light and shadow, transparency and opacity, heaviness and weightlessness, materiality  and ethereality, form and spirit are repeatedly presented; the synthesis of geometric with organic forms, the range between abstraction and representation are constantly explored.”
Laura Rosenstock, catalogue essay.

Slow Photography/Blue Transitions : Phenomenology of Visual Structures

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 concept,
they do not have the same concept of beginning…
Every concept has an irregular
contour defined by the sum of its components,
which is why,
from Plato to Bergson,
we find
the idea of the concept being a
matter of articulation,
of cutting and
cross-cutting.
The concept is a whole because it totalizes
its components, but it is
a fragmentary whole.
Only on this condition can it escape the
mental chaos
constantly threatening it, stalking it, trying to reabsorb it.”

Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, pp. 15-16.

Melancholy And The Landscape
Locating Sadness, Memory And Reflection In The Landscape
Jacky Bowrin

Path : Analogue Film Process
St Catherine’s Hill, Winchester

Anthrocene : Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree.
Walberswick :  Beach Slides/Digital Pinhole

Covehithe : Walking/Thinking/Physical Entanglements in the Landscape
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.”

“To Thomas, paths connected real places but they also led out-wards to metaphysics, backwards to history and inward to the self. These traverses- between the conceptual, the spectral and the personal-occur often without signage in his writing, and are among its most characteristic events. He imagined himself in topographical terms.”

Landscape : Entanglements of Affect

Deeper Darkness, Photographic Memory/Process, Metonymy, Negative,
Analogue, Negated Nocturne. Walking, Others, Presence, Becoming,

Landscapes : entering/intruding/emerging
Pinhole Photography (Holga)

Landscape : Entanglements of Affect/Aesthetics

Nihilistic Aesthetic :  Bleached Cyanotype

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.