Ben Lingard

Tag: reflection

  • An interview, twice

    An interview, twice

    This week I was asked to do a short interview with the organiser of my exhibition to use for publicity. We had a chat and not entirely seriously, we thought that it might be quite interesting to see what would happen if we asked ChatGPT to give the interview as me. We uploaded this blurb…

  • Competing Ontologies

    Competing Ontologies

    As I write my Study Statement, I am becoming increasingly aware of the need to set some boundaries on my research. Jonathan made the point yesterday that this is not a huge piece of writing, saying ‘you are artists’ and this was a helpful calibration. I am not trying to write a PhD; this is…

  • Tutorial #2

    Tutorial #2

    23/01/26 Tutorial with Jonathan Things discussed: Next steps:

  • Begin Again

    Begin Again

    So, I need to get better at making entries to this journal. At the end of today’s group meeting, we did 5 minutes of continuous writing, and I am using what I wrote there as the basis for this entry. I think that the problem that I have created with this journal is that I…

  • End of term

    End of term

    On the train home after the last day of teaching for this year. Phew! I am getting to the point with the exhibition preparation where I am beginning to reflect on how it has gone. I have a pile of paintings that are coming to a finish, and I can start to see how the…

  • Some thoughts

    Some thoughts

    January (and therefore the exhibition) suddenly feels very close. I have been doing a lot of extra teaching this term. I am grateful for the money as I have tuition fees to pay but am also conscious that it is eating into the time that I had allocated to making the exhibition work. I worked…