Material absorbed in its own thoughts :
Wednesday, 31 May 2023
Monday, 29 May 2023
On the property/structure of things/materials/colours : About philosophy/drawing
Outpost Studio 261021
On the property/structure of things/materials/colours
Drawings going beyond figure/ground relationships
The manifestation of weight derives from form along with substance.
I no longer wanted to make markings on a piece of paper, I wanted to make the drawing integral to its structure and properties.
About Drawing, Richard Serra.
Serra has questioned whether his 'Deadweight' series borders on the pictorial, because these drawings set two similar shapes against a common ground as if to construct a compound figure. However Serra's use of overlap protects against this possibility and preserves the material independence of the two sheets of paper.
Preface, Being and Becoming. C. Robert Mesle.
The secret of life is enjoying the passing of time. James Taylor
Process-Relational Philosophy.
An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. 2008
The assumption of a moving viewer, Richard Serra in a Japanese Temple Garden.
Richard Serra believes that the physical grasp of a space must occur through time in the form of movement or effort, so he temporally extends his own working of a surface.
Tempered, measured movement such as the application of layers of paintstick, narrows the conceptual gap between the space and time we imagine to experience bodily.
Serra's program (a temporal art of substance), to link bodily consciousness to material substance, to integrate vision and touch as well as space and time.
Movement/Sensation marks both space and time, it does so psychologically as well as physically.
The Interaction Of Color
Albers theorized the relation of space and time to weight.
The two basic quantities or substances question, how much and how often, distinguishes two kinds of quantities, one of size, extension in area, and one of recurrence, an extension in number. These measurements establish weight in space and weight in time.
Serra's accumulated, living movement, his layering of paintstick, collects weight in space and weight in time.
The human body (corpus humanum) is composed of many individuals (of different nature), each one of which is highly composite.
The individuals of which the human body is composed are some fluid, some soft and some hard.
The individuals composing the human body, and consequently the human body itself is affected in many ways by external bodies.
The human body needs for its preservation many other bodies from which it is, so to speak, continually regenerated.
When a fluid part of the human body is so determined by an external body that it impinges frequently on another part which is soft, it changes its surface and as it were imprints on it the traces of the external impelling body.
The human body can move external bodies in many ways, and dispose them in many ways.
The human mind is apt for perceiving many things, and more so according as its body can be disposed in more ways.
Bento de Spinoza : Ethics, Part II, Postulates I-VI, Proposition XIV
Bento,s Sketchbook : John Berger. 2011
Manuel Neri
Bodies of intensity, imprinted with a ghostly figural outline.
Sculptures and drawings showing ambivalence,hostile, intimate, relationships.
The contradictory shocks between form and substance are absorbed by the emotional resilience of the dialectic of pleasure and doubt. Neri proves this in the course of his own work, through his successive approaches to different materials, which make him oscillate between allusive figuration and the most direct realism.
Pierre Restany. 1988
How do things translate into lived experience?
Whatever the answer, it will be known only in relation to the particularity of a personal physical encounter with the work, never as a principle of order or composition.
Drawing Thick, Richard Serra.
Agencies/ways of doing, phenomena and research emerge with specific relationalities to things at hand.
A diffractive methodology is a knowledge making process, creating ongoing differences, states of being/becoming.
Diffraction as a tool for analysis, attunes us to the differences generated by our knowledge.
Opening up ways for greater sensitivity towards how we are part of the worlds continuous becoming.
Organism-Person-Environment : The Architectural Body.
Arakawa and Gins
The theoretical object/body in doing/sensate built architecture
Living Spaces : Spatial Agencies/Creative Philosophies into a world of continual process and becoming, where each person relates to every other and to all of nature.
Architectural Thinking/The Interrelated Universe : Process and Reality
Mattering : Mind-Movement-Material
Spatial Interventions in Architecture
Filtered Light and the interactions of objects
Entanglements of Materials and Substances
Asperities, opacities, reflections, textiles,
Lines Of Flight : Drawing on Mattering
Steven Holl, House,St Ignatius, Scale
Place Making/Drawing/Materials/Construction
Beach Ruins : Belgium
Rutile/Yellow Ochre washes, transparent glass/glaze, texture/textile and pierced clay/concrete.
Ceramic Slab Constructions : Facades/Massing for pacemaker utilities/living spaces
Material as drawing, drawing as construction, architectural models constructed into the assemblage of the making drawing.
Painted Clay Constructions : Gesso, Cyanotype, Cotton, Wire, Glass.
Process-Relational Philosophy : Alfred North Whitehead
Vibrant Matter : Jane Bennett
Blackness is a property, not a quality, that is to say, something fundamental, not an incidental embellishment.
About Drawing, Richard Serra.
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Re-visiting the proposal : Making at Raveningham/Building on the lightest of things
Dwelling. Up, across and along relations in the landscape.
Giving Sensation Place.
An Education Of Attention.
Creative Curriculum Making.
Developing a creative inquiry and its presentation through generative art based methodologies.
Re-imagining learning through site based education, art practices and philosophy.
Installing a creative practice as a 'place driven site' for subjective experience, gathering things and personal inquiry from which to present 'findings' into the social environment.
For Tim Ingold, life is the very process wherein forms are generated and held in place.
And dwelling means that the forms people build, whether in the imagination or on the ground arise within the current of their involved activity in the specific relational contexts of their practical engagement with their surroundings.
Tim Ingold, Lines. 2007
Proposal Raveningham 2023
The Simple Presence of Things.
Peter Zumthor.
Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2023
Russell Moreton.
Making and working in drawings, diagrams and constructions that are habitable environments.
Speculative Cosmic Garden and Sculptural Array for Solargraphy.
Interested in revisiting an earlier project that I created at Kilquhanity (A Pathway Between Sunrise and Sunset), in which I mapped out transits and movements of the sun onto the landscape through demarcated pathways and intersections. I propose then to add to these ground markings an apparatus or array to hold small can cameras pointing skyward to record the movement of the sun over the duration of the Sculpture Trail.
Using the phenomena of light as both a conceptual and practical framework requires a mixture of pinhole cameras, contact photograms and shadow sticks that will demarcate lines and arcs, that will in turn create overlapping territories onto the landscape. The array construction will act in counterpoint to the landmarks, a fixed arrangement looking perpetually skyward.
Russell Moreton
Spatial practitioner employing a speculative site based practice linking visual fine art, education, architecture and philosophy.
Sunday, 21 May 2023
A Nomadic Narrative/One Place After Another.
A nomadic narrative, a path articulated by the passage of the artist which is phenomenological, social, institutional and discursive.
Site specificity of competing definitions, overlapping with one another and operating simultaneously within both cultural practices and the artist's own single project.
One Place After Another.
Notes On Site Specificity
Miwon Kwon. 1997
Thursday, 18 May 2023
Transience of Presence : Drawing Gestures, Postures and Movements/Philosophies of Art
Outpost 241121
Philosophies of Art
Mark Rothko, 1940-41.
Without question the work I found as incomplete and in places, frustratingly obscure, but it was a book, and a substantial one. It was clearly written as a volume, its contents speaking to a public rather than constituting an artist's private musings
Christopher Rothko, 2004.
The Artist's Dilemma
Art as a Natural Biological Function
Art as a Form of Action
The Integrity of the Plastic Process
Art, Reality, and Sensuality
Particularization and Generalization
Genalization since the Renaissance
Emotional and Dramatic Impressionism
Objective Impressionism
Plasticity
Space
Beauty
Naturalism
Subject and Subject Matter
The Myth
The Attempted Myth of Today
Primitive Civilizations Influence on Modern Art
Modern Art
Primitivism
Indigenous Art
Rembrandt discovered that his patrons were not interested in his plastic preoccupations with light when he painted The Night Watch, and that they preferred the obvious illustrative gifts of his contemporaries and followers. Monet and Cezanne discovered the same, watching Sargent and the exhibitors at the academy sell far inferior goods, succeeding because they adopted the French masters' method in its superficial aspects, while including enough familiarity so that the spectator revelled in the familiar while he was talking about the unfamiliar.
Things and Bodies/Shifting Signs
The haptic image/indexical/involuntary markings and the present instant, a body at the limit of its moment when it is most definitely intensely alive and in the present.
Beyond the body's blurred contours and indexical markers, to see through, to see sense challenged.
Time is persistently liminal, a suspended, extended present.
Mattering/Mutability,Accident, Flux
Experience/Existence/Presence
Life Drawing/Staging Oneself/Others
Body in Space/Resilience,Endures
Organism-Person-Environment
Haptic slippages/propositions between subject and object, human and non human, between what is alive and what is animate.
Drawing/Anamorphic Perceptions, apprehended and felt, more than seen.
Drawing is not the form; it is the way of seeing the form.
Edgar Degas.
The human figure, like any animated object is alive. Even when in a seemingly static position- whether sitting or lying- it is actually in constant motion. To capture this fundamental fact, which makes the body profoundly different from a statue or a mannequin, one must learn to see both its physical structure and its actions in space.
Daniela Brambilla.
Between seeing and drawing, what is felt, hidden, made rendering visible.
Blindness, searching, instants marking the barely known phenomena between organism, person and environment.
The searching and reflexive nature of drawing, a questioning through the performative social body, and its perceptual spatial agency and with materials, environments and others.
Human Figure Drawing
Drawing Gestures, Postures and Movements.
Daniela Brambilla, 2014.
With a series of curved lines drawn quickly, without lifting the pencil from the paper, in a loose way and almost without looking away from the subject, identify the lines that make up not the outside, the external contour or the details, but the morphological whole of the figure at that precise moment- in a certain sense the internal engine, a synthesis between intentions and actions, between mind and body.
To achieve this result draw around the form's centre and at the same time beyond it, without defining volumes with closed lines.
Gesture
Seeing Contours
Superposition
Interior and Exterior
Proportions
Modelling
What It Isn't
Memory
Balance
Techniques
Light and Shadow
Chiaroscuro
Viewpoint
What to Say?
Movements of the Soul
The Forms of Age
The Sketchbook
Imagination
If you have learnt to write, you will also learn how to draw. The manual skill is the same; you are just changing your way of seeing and feeling. To understand the meaning of this statement, ask yourself: “Where am I when I am drawing?”
Thinking Bodies : Deleuze and Guattari's becoming-woman
Nicole Dawson, 2008.
Deleuze and Guattari have argued that we cannot reach outside of a dualistic conceptualization of human bodies simply by seeking to transcend or bypass it. They contend: “The only way to get outside the dualism is to be-between, to pass between, the intermezzo”. We do not get past or move beyond the dualism. This is not a successive stage of progression. The dualism is a conceptual event whose historical and contemporary activity gives rise to consequences that cannot be invalidated or ignored, thus, the situation is not such that we put the dualism behind us, move on or forward as if unaffected. The only place to go, to move, if we are to get outside the dualism is between: “one must pass ...through binaries, not in order to reproduce them but to find terms and modes that befuddle their operations, connections that demonstrate the impossibility of their binarization, terms, relations, and practices that link the binarily opposed terms”.
A Thousand Plateaus : Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Deleuze and Guattari.
Volatile Bodies : Towards a Corporeal Feminism, Elizabeth Grosz.
Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Sunday, 14 May 2023
Outpost 100523
The line that develops freely and in its own time goes out for a walk, and in reading it the eyes follow the same path as did the hand in drawing it.
The Thinking Eye, Paul Klee. 1961
Lefebvre acknowledges that geographical space created through the body, through routes which were inscribed by means of simple linear markings. These first markings, paths and tracks drawn into the landscape would become the pores through which without colliding would produce the establishment of places and localities made special for one reason or another.
The Walk and The Assembly.
Tim Ingold.
Life Drawing.
Herbert Boeckl is not concerned with beauty of line, as his predecessors Klimt and Schiele were; he always sees the body in the context of space and draws 'from within': he builds up his figures from a structural core. The surface thus takes on a strongly moulded, modelled aspect.
Georg Eisler.
From Naked to Nude.
Wayfaring a Human Landscape.
Material : The ways/movements of practice.
Making : The designed/the discursive.
The lines of the network in a contemporary sense, join the dots, they are connectors.
The lines of the meshwork by contrast are the trails along which is lived.
Up, Across and Along.
Tim Ingold.
Saturday, 13 May 2023
Twilight Abstractions : Liminal Zones/Psychological Realities
Friday, 12 May 2023
New Ceramics/Drawings/Constructions/Apparatuses/Daylight
Ceramic Forms/Inscriptions/Lines of Knowing.
Wayfaring, walking/sensing between things.
As wayfarers we experience what Robin Jarvis has called a progressional ordering of reality, or the integration of knowledge along a path of travel.
Up. Across and Along, Tim Ingold.
Structural Modalities/Making/Tensions : Spatial Forms to gather/interact with discursive research
Sensing Spaces : Through displacements and hidden volumes.
The Hut is a vessel in the making for reflective dwelling.
The Pot with its interior underpins its fidelity, its completeness.
Some pots are tuned and balanced for their “innerness”; others promote their surfaces (noise) at the expense of their interior integrity (quietness)
Vessels of Defined Spaces : Creatures of Light and Dark
In sensing a pots interior from its surface, we are as it were in some intimate tacit correspondence with its spatial sensing centre. We become known to it through its maker’s creative gesture of innemess. This anthropological inner space linking us to the potter is both sensual and distant; its vacancy allows us dwell in the maker’s absence.
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Confronting The Human Body : A Body Of Relations
Outpost 270423
Temporal Demarcations.
Figural Workshop.
Confronting The Human Body.
The Psychology of Nakedness.
Looking/Showing/The Eye/The Gaze.
In the scopic field, the gaze is outside; I am looked at, that is to say, I am a picture.
The spectacle of the world, in this sense, appears to us as all-seeing, this all-seeing aspect is to be found in the satisfaction of a woman who knows that she is being looked at, on condition that one does not show her that one knows that she knows.
Jacques Lacan.
What is a Picture.
The Split between The Eye and the Gaze.
A Body of Relations.
Reconfiguring The Life Class.
In the article What is a Picture? Jaques Lacan relates the space between the gaze and the eye to the 'screen'. The 'screen' allows the simultaneous perception and projection of the image. In the life class, Lacan's gaze is significant for the life model and the artist as it formulates the intentions of the psychological engagement and reveals the fundamental pursuit of desire in the methodology of life drawing practice. The subject needs to become an object of its own 'scopic drives' and therefore possessed by the perception of others. Lacan's gaze is somewhat estranged from the body, as it never allows for subjectivity to be fully complete.
Yuen Fong Ling. 2016
Palimpsest/Involuntary Surfaces.
Drawing/Corporeal Intertwinings of body/space.
Bodyscapes/Movements/Materials.
Haptic/Visual Abstractions.
Life Class/Drawing.
The contested space/subject of the nude as a form of art.
The Impossible Nude.
Transfer/Temporal/Media.
Dyeline Sheet/Rolled Inked Surface.
Charcoal/Burnt Umber/Pencil
Shading Colour/Glass Pigments/Fired Glass.
Tuesday, 9 May 2023
Seeing Dark Things : Chemical Photography/Images from the darkroom.
Concept of a 'Filtow'
A filtered radiance emanating from a vessel not an object interrupting a beam of light.
Seeing Dark Things.
Roy Sorensen.
The thing contained is not the thing contained.
The spherical intersection space was also crafted in curved thin wood layers.
Steven Holl.
The Representation of Deep Time.
The Mutability of Colour Relationships.
Unleashed Colour World.
Manifestations of Unhindered Radiance.
Albers, yellow square.
Monrian, square of yellow in its field of white.
For both Mondrian and Winifred Nicholson, colour concentrates light and transforms the world.
Flowers were sparks of light.
I used flowers as chalices of light to make my own pictures.
My Cibachrome darkroom has been as much a domestic space as the Alber's basement and Winifred Nicholson's farmhouse kitchen. They are places where ideas about the emotional range of a yellow square can exist as naturally as reflections and shadows cast by the sun and moon.
In this new colour world of mine, the circle became nature, and the square became thought.
The circle and square together embody what I think of as human nature.
Dark Room, Garry Fabian Miller.
Generating an Aura.
Fusing and Pulsating Pigment.
Pinhole Photography
Photo Tin/Medium.
Cromer.
Raveningham.
Site Cyanotypes/Drawings/Intermediaries
Spatial Collages Reconfigured
Saturday, 6 May 2023
Friday, 5 May 2023
Blue Planet : Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.
ARCHITECTURAL Body
An ORGANISM that PERSONS
Gins and Arakawa 2002
Although the human condition is a crisis condition if ever there was one, few individuals and societies act with the dispatch a state of emergency requires. The fact that the human condition is a crises condition gets routinely covered up, with culture invariably functioning to obscure how dire the condition is and to float it as bearable
If organisms form themselves as persons by uptaking the environment, then they involve not only bodies but domains, spheres of activity and influence
Start by thinking of architecture as a tentative constructing toward a holding in place. Architecture's holding in place occurs within and as part of a prevailing atmospheric condition that others routinely call biosphere but which we, feeling the need to stress its dynamic nature, have renamed bioscleave
Procedural Architure/Architectural Body
Gins and Arakawa
The role of architecture as a tool for researching the body-environment towards the implementation of these considerations is paramount
The goal of an experimental teaching and learning space based on architectural procedures would be that the process of design and construction would allow students/staff to rethink, re-imagine and enact the curriculum
An Arakawa and Gins Experimental Teaching Space/A Feasibility Study 2013
Jondi Keane
An Architecture of Viability
To help to sustain one throughout life/ to stay tentative
Bioscleave House as an inter-active laboratory of everyday life
Wayfinding (unpacking discourse/meaning) through Landing Sites and Architectural Bodies
What is the metachallenge that bioscleave demands of us? Is it, I propose, wayfinding, a wayfinding defined at many scales from finding one's way as a person to finding one's way in a strange physical or social environment
Exploring the Roles of Trajectoriness, Affectivatoriness, and Imaging Along 2013
Reuben M. Baron
Figure/Ground : Double Occupations of Discourses and Events (relationships/co-existances)
So as a diagram (performative agent), the figure/ground does not function to represent even something real. But rather constructs a real that is yet to come (theoretical object/apparatus) as a new type of reality
Situated Field/Constructed Site of People, Institutions, Apparatuses, Events, Discourses
We see intraventions as heuristic devices, as apparatuses that are imbued with a will to transform.
The intravention is not autonomous but contingent and relational and dependent on many other things
The intravention is made as it happens, and it makes us at the same time
Immediate Architectural Interventions, Durations and Effects
Oren Lieberman, Alberto Altes
AEffect initiating Heuristic Life
Procedural architecture, developed in both their written and buillt discourse, providing a process by which to connect theory to practice, disciplinary inquiry to knowledge and art to life
Research should be conducted , not in a library or laboratory but where living happens, enabling the complexity of relationships to be studied within and across the organism-person-environment
Jondi Keane
Carnal Knowledge
Towards a New Materialism through the Arts
Estelle Barrett, Barbara Bolt
To provide observational heuristic devices so that persons may devise transformational and reconfigurative opportunities
Heuristic tools whether built hypothesis or discursive sequences, are of no use if they do not provide a way forward, a way of learning
This house is a tool, a procedural one
A functional tool, whether it be a hammer, a telephone, or a telescope, extends the senses, but a procedural tool examines and reorders the sensorium
Interlude : Cornering a Beginning
An object becomes the threshold for thinking feeling
Relationscapes : Movement, Art, Philosopy
Erin Manning
Born into a new territory, and that territory is myself as organism. There is no place to go but here. Each organism that persons finds the new territory that is itself, and having found it, adjusts it
Ellipsis,(gaps in everyday narratives)
The Construction of Representation of Identity
Using their bodies and immediate surroundings and environment as both subject and context
An Organism-Person-Environment
You cannot see me from where I look at myself
Francesca Woodman
An organism-person-environment has given birth to an organism-person-environment
Bioscleave
Chaos, Territory, Art
Deleuze and the framing of the earth
Elizabeth Grosz
Body, Personal Relations, Spatial Values
Upright Human Body : Space and Time
Yi Fu Tuan
Figuring It Out
The Parallel Visions of Artists and Archaeologists
Colin Renfrew
The act of relating is analysed as a constitutive feature of human agency. Relating is viewed as the continuous work of connecting and disconnecting in a fluctuating network of existential events
Categories and things may make it easier for us to grasp reality but they also hide its underlying complexities
Relationality 2005
Robert Cooper


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