Symposium 2 video for presentation, 30th May 2019; with transcript below: Transcript: A painting is an aesthetic entity; it exists as it is and that is enough. But for me it has also not been enough as I have asked myself all along as to why the painting is as it is, rather than any […]
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The future as a matter of the continuously evolving past
The painting above (125 x 127 cm) is one I have been working on today as I would like to complete it for the Summer show. It has been suspended for a year having been started early on in the MA. Here is a reminder of how it began and its story so far:
Intellectualism and Inspiration
Image: Oil, graphite, pencil and pigment on paper by JWR some correspondence with Agnes Martin: Art ‘Requires a Relaxation of Control’: How Agnes Martin Gave Up Intellectualism to Harness Her Inspiration
Big Questions and the Smallest of Things.
In effect, we are living in a state of perpetual remote control. As Carl Miller argues in his book The Death of the Gods (2018), algorithms have taken over many day-to-day procedures. https://aeon.co/essays/do-you-know-your-stuff-the-ethics-of-the-material-world Food for thought vis a vis pictopoiesis, its appropriateness and timeliness in our remote-controlled world. In pictopoiesis connection with origin, or source is maintained. The serial […]
First Tutorial with Jonathan Kearney (further reflections)
Jonathan drew my attention to some of the Sentences on Conceptual Art by Sol Lewitt -in particular sentences 19, 20 and 21, copied below. This interests me in that these come straight from the artist. The sentences themselves are food for thought, as is also the idea of making a list of sentences about my own […]