Independent Creative and Professional Practice

Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny, very tiny, content.
-Willem de Kooning, in an interview

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
-Oscar Wide, in a letter

Joseph Beuys - The difficulty of producing an egg - 1968

Questions to ask yourself?

Francis Alys

Francis Alys "When Faith Moves Mountains" Lima, 2002

- experiment/ understand process of working, when do I work best?
- when is a drawing done? How do I know
- process of collecting materials and using unconventional paper sizes, paper can be a restraint, think about using unconventional drawing surfaces

Art Therapy and Identity as an Artist

- Art as therapeutic while the artist tries to understand her identity post graduation
- Drawing's of objects/things that relate to the way the artist feels about her practice and position in the world currently
- Gain an understanding of the relationship between culture and identity, and what it means to be an artist in the current world
- Research based with supportive drawings both realistic and abstract

What is the point?

- gain a better understanding of self. Find cultural influences

Anouk Griffioen

GRADUATING
- fear, lose of community, unsure of practice and of self

INDENTITY
- not sure of identity as an artist
-movement of identity and self
-resistance to conforming and prescribing to social norms
-cynical of world and self
-try to find desire for/in oneself
-social issues/influences of identity of the self

PRACTICE
-research based, relevant to current interests
-transformative
-drawing, the physical
-ideas of orderly chaos
-texture

They Make the Path Through Walking

-exploring nature and its complex relationship with human infringement
-humans need to possess
-ordered chaos, cycles of destruction both natural and human created

-freedom of getting lost, unfamiliar appearing and familiar falling away
-being fully present
-we are excepting/ welcoming the unknown, uncertainty
-what does it mean to get lost in nature? Types of getting lost? Less literal than
-when we walk in nature we leave behind concerns for the mundane responsibilities and objects and we become less concerned with ourself
- getting lost becomes a way of living, an outlook on life

Work- intuitively, embracing the unknown, learning to become okay with uncertainty

Questions to Ask Yourself?

Exploring my relationship to nature. I am attracted to places with unique landscapes. My relationship with nature or attraction is the ability to become lost when walking, camping. I leave behind mundane obligations to welcome the unknown. You begin to become less concerned with yourself and identity as you begin to become more attuned to the present.
Progess is important to me as well. I have been working intuitively, welcoming the unknown. The work is hopefully to give the sense of consuming the viewer. Ordered chaos.

"maybe if I really paid attention to my life I'd notice that I don't know whats going to happen this afternoon and I can't be fully confident that I'm competent to deal with it. Maybe we're willing to let in that thought. It has some reasonableness to it, I can't exactly know, but chances are, possibilities are, it's not going to be much different than what i've usually experienced and I'll do just fine, so we close up that unsettling possibility with a reasonable response."

"material objects witness everything and say nothing"

Recurring theme in my work is how our identities are created through the technology we use and how technology effects us.
The effect being something we can't completely see or grasp, bigger than us.
Technology as capital.
Like student debt we know its there, numbers, exists but isn't physical.
Internet exists, isn't a physical thing.

Bank Machine- Capital
- Part of society, has control
- Interactive
- "free cash"
- a cold object, dirty, neglected physically?
- cast- creates a monument
- creating a negative- void

- objects that create an emotional response, somethings are as satisfying to explain, you can analysis emotions and why you are sad. Humans are complex, maybe actions, objects, physical things are more therapeutic, satisfying than talking about feelings.

LINEN DRAWING

- conte drawing on linen
- shadow of drawing on wall more interesting, tracing, less imformation
- temporary, washing the drawing out -process of cleansing?
- layering process