Thomas’s notes on the unstudio, I like the honesty that the direction appears to be breaking, it’s something we’re trying to resolve by bringing the making much more into what we are doing and sharing that (which is why thisRead more…
Constraint
Roger Ackling. The coat hanger is beautiful. Found timber, then a magnifying glass to etch the timber. Constraints: found objects, sunlight, instrument can’t directly touch the material. This is particularly beautiful when you know the rules of the game. MoreRead more…
Ideas 9
In the class I briefly showed the opening and closing of The Searchers running next to each other. This was to discuss how looking at what something does can tell you a lot about what it means, rather than puttingRead more…
Tidings
Monique on Latour. For Monique the crux is, elegantly, how can we describe things as things. (And presumably that means not as things for us, things that are only equal to what we say about them from one or twoRead more…
Ideas 8 (or more like 7.2)
This next task can be thought of as an ‘opening out’, an collecting of things. It is deliberately broad and is intended to get a big pile of stuff together to help shape what the major work will be. SoRead more…
Ideas 7
After the minor impasse in week 6 of wondering what to make, we can turn that around. Things got stuck by putting image making first, as if that needed to be primary. But that’s silly (and just one of thoseRead more…
Ideas 6
Fire, rethought.
Ideas 4
Write a poetic ontograph come creative essay about your thing. This might be in the form of a series of written pieces. This becomes either your soundtrack, or you use it as a way to think about what you mightRead more…
Ideas 5
The chasing tool. “That you can talk with the material.”
Ideas 3
In praise of a glass. Note the use of ‘list’.