Drawing Concepts/Thinking with Materials.

 Drawing Concepts/Thinking with Materials.

Clayworks.

Leylines.

Hyde Abbey Gatehouse.

Ecological approaches/affordances to aesthetic perception/production

When I gather together the animals, arguments, molecules, suggestions, forces, interpretations, sounds, people, and images of this study, one theme emerges. The modern story of disenchantment leaves out important things, and it neglects crucial sources of ethical generosity in doing so. Without modes of enchantment, we might not have the energy and inspiration to enact ecological projects, or to contest ugly and unjust modes of commercialization, or to respond generously to humans and nonhumans that challenge our settled identities. These enchantments are already in and around us.

Jane Bennett

Be not inhospitable to strangers

lest they be angels in disguise

Jackie Leven, The Dent In The Fender And The Wheel Of Fate

David Childers, Heart In My Soul

Camouflage/Aesthetics//Spatiality : Relating the individual to the environment

Grasping the complexities involved in our negotiations with the world. 

Cognitive mapping within the aesthetic domain, locating the self against the otherwise, homogenising placelessness of contemporary existence.

Contexts:

Documentation , Practice-based research , Research , Studio practice

Artforms:

Drawing , Mixed media , Photography