Tag: reflection
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Resistance
I have been thinking about the role of art in resistance. It’s the May Day weekend and I’m going to the march in Glasgow tomorrow. Last night I saw a play at the Tron Theatre about the Lee Jeans sit-in. It was amazing, but it also made me wonder about where we are now. I…
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Words
So, I’m still not entirely convinced by my study statement. I don’t think it is wrong exactly, and I don’t think I’m completely barking up the wrong tree, but I do have a growing suspicion that I have tried to over-academicise the whole thing. I have spent a lot of time trying to give the…
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Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers
When we were in London for the interim show, I made time to see Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers by Sarah Morris at White Cube. The attendant told me off for trying to take pictures, so these are scraped from the website. I had wanted to see the show anyway, but it ended up being one of those…
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Interim show
I used the interim show to test an idea I had been returning to on and off for some time. Collage plays a significant role in my practice: I often use it as a research tool or as source material for paintings and prints. At times I also make more sculptural collages, though in the…
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Who owns what?
As I reworked my Study Statement, I gave some thought to whether I might use AI images generated by other people rather than making new ones myself. On the surface, that seemed like it might be a way to reduce my own direct entanglement with image-generation systems. It felt like a possible way of keeping…
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Assessment feedback
I have reworked my study statement in response to three developments. First, I revisited it in light of the Unit 1 assessment feedback, which I found thoughtful and genuinely helpful. Later in this post, I outline the ways in which I have responded to that feedback. Second, the Interim Show has influenced how I now…
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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…
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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…
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Tutorial #2
23/01/26 Tutorial with Jonathan Things discussed: Next steps:
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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…