Showing posts with label air. Show all posts
Showing posts with label air. Show all posts

Friday, 3 July 2026

Makings~Silent transformations~translations from the continuous weather-world.

Translations~Places of Inquiry.

Interactions and correspondences wayfaring through the weather-world of clay and texts.

Continuous Readings~Translations : Weathering and the Passage of Air.


14 Weather-world.
'Can man live elsewhere than in air?' asked the philosopher Luce Irigaray.


The Life Of Lines.
Tim Ingold.











Russell Moreton : A visual fine artist is exploring themes around 'Making' involving the imprint of the artist, and metaphysical immersive nature of contemporary art practices and architecture. He is interested in developing collaborative and speculative making spaces where craft, theory, art and architecture can come together.

A site-based practice that further develops into speculative learning, creative propositions for knowledge production through Spatial Practices.

Moreton's site-based practices using clay as his principle material further develops his inquiry into a site based speculative learning, and with it creative propositions for knowledge production through his ceramic objects. He finds in ceramics an analogy with architecture, in particular a resonance of a spatial structure in which the the drama of the building has now ceased.

His practice investigates the interconnectedness of making interior spaces. These works in clay are processual in nature, developed by a need to demarcate and fold material into spatial forms and volumes. The act and gesture of drawing further adds ephemeral marks of process amongst the materiality of the built spaces. Clay slips and other incised marks on both sides of the clay are all interwoven into his spatial forms.

Assemble forms are then divided into several spatial interiors, in which the use of piercings are used through the surface to set up a circulation for light to enter into the interiors. Further firings and more ceramic coatings are applied to further investigate the involuntary relationships that have emerged. These objects are unknowable as they are extracted from the kiln, and as such they act as forms that can take on a theoretical nature, gathering his discursive researches and readings into a performative ceramic body.

For Moreton ceramics help to facilitate the essential auditory experience of silence, as experience by architecture as tranquillity. He is drawn by the solitudes of libraries and the sounds of construction, of pounding on materials, of making and constructing space. Architecture also presents this drama of construction silenced into matter, space and time. His finished fired constructions could become a museum for a waiting, patient silence. The silence of architecture, like that of clay is a responsive, remembering and meditative gathering, a correspondence of matter(s).

Interior Design MA, UCA Farnham. Spatial Practices MA, Canterbury School of Architecture. Visual Art BA Hons, Winchester School of Art. Ceramics HSND, Epsom School of Art and Design.

https://www.curatorspace.com/artists/russellmoreton

Monday, 29 June 2026

Correspondences and Mediums /Drawing/Speculative Learning Environments

Outpost 300823


Mediums To Correspond With.

The Situatedness of Sinuous Form/Animacy Dancing.

Living/Learning with intensity/shelters and camps, Architectural Association Field Projects.







Garden Constellation.

Raveningham Transductive Mapping/Diagram.

Cyanotype Spatial Drawing.


Transducers convert the 'ductus' the kinetic quality of the gesture and its flow or movement from one register of bodily kineasthesia to another of material flow. 



Brockwood Teaching Academy. 2011.


Speculative Learning Environments.


Brockwood Park Grounds.

A walk in the landscape whilst moving-making with clay.

Developing a mindfulness that is immanent in the attentiveness to ones surroundings through the playfulness of material and others.


Brockwood Park Library.

Hidden Curriculum.

Assemblage in the library for the re-imagining of architectural thinking and spaces for learning.

Architecture without architects.



Throwing Sticks.


The energies of the work,come from the gathering of materials and the gesture that animates them. For Goldsworthy the strength of the work lies precisely in the energies emanating from materials in their movement, growth and decay, and in the fleeting moments when they come together as one. Throwing as Goldsworthy shows us is not so much the outward effect of an embodied agency as the propulsion of animate being as it pulls, spills out into the world, it is the propulsion of life itself. 

Ingold/Goldsworthy



Relationscapes/Erin Manning




Making.

The Propulsion Of Animate Being.

Tim Ingold.


The Clay-The Potter-The Wheel.

The potter's feeling flows in and out in a correspondence with the clay.


You do not need clay to 'interact' with the wheel, but you do need a wheel to 'correspond' with the clay. In pottery the mindful or attentive bodily movement of the practitioner, on the one hand and the flows and resistances of the material on the other, respond/correspond to one another in counterpoint of affective resonances, sentient awareness, and the  flows/currents of animate life.


The distinction between interaction and correspondence if that, interaction is the dance of agency between definable points and objects, whilst correspondence can be seen as the dance of animacy weaving between all things and their phenomenal flux in the world.



In the dance of animacy bodily kinaesthesia interweaves contrapuntally with the flux of materials within an encompassing morphogenetic field of forces.


The flow of air, the wind, the breath of life are all the very antithesis of embodied agency.


For Ingold the very idea of agency and agents is the corollary of a logic for a closed system of embodiment, a system of closing things up in themselves.  


Making/Intuition In Action.

Beyond mere human embodiment and objects and into a world full of correspondences/animacies that propel things and phenomena into the world. 

World Without Objects, Tim Ingold.


The choreographic diagram/proposition generates less the stability of a complex of form, than the foregrounding of a field of resonance that defines a certain quality of activity. It speaks/seeks to create a drawing/diagram that captures in a fleeting moment the very qualities of movements and their expressibility such that their force of form can be felt.

Erin Manning.



Drawing, seeing made visible, through the pencil as transducer, not a vector of projection or a bridge between the architects imagining mind and the image on the paper.


The mark on paper leads as much as it is led.



Tim Ingold advocates a way of thinking through making in which sentient practitioners and active materials continually answer to, or correspond with one another in the generation of form.



Individuation's Dance, pushing your consciousness deep into every atom and cell.

Atom and Cell, Nine Horses, David Sylvian.




Correspondences.

The Material of Life.

Drawing into the animacy of things and feelings.


The drawing that tells is a correspondence of kinaesthetic awareness and the line of flight, it is a correspondence that is alternatively sewing the line into the mind and the mind into the line in a suturing action that grows tighter as the drawing proceeds.

The Stage of Drawing, A Walk for Walks Sake, Bryson.


Instead of dictating a thought, the thinking process turns into an act of waiting-listening-collaborating-dialogue in which one gradually learns the skill of co-operating with one's own work. This thinking, this imagining goes on as much in the hands and fingers as in the head, it is strung out in the lines of practice.

Pallasmaa/Ingold.


Thinking Through Drawing.

Barry Phipps.


Drawing is a gathering and a co-operating with one,s own work, a pulling together closer of the lines of inquiry. 


Drawing The Line.

Making/Transduction and Perdurance.


Tim Ingold suggests colour saturates consciousness, line leads it. Thus if the line traces a process of thought then colour is its temperament. Both line and colour are modalities of feeling, but where line is haptic, colour is atmospheric. 



All Buildings are Drawings.

Simon Unwin.


Only in the eyes of the architect is the trowel a bridge between the initial design and the final construction. For the builder it allows him to navigate the treacherous waters that flow beneath.

Tim Ingold.


When one is young and narrow minded, one wants the text and the drawing to concretise a preconceived idea, to give the idea an instant and precise shape.

Juhani Pallasmaa.

Thursday, 7 October 2021

Intermediary States, Patina and Process/Sensation and Movement

 Intermediary States : Wonderous Mobility/New Individuations


The Abstract Field : Robert Cooper

Organism, Person, Environment : Processional Inquiry/Thinking/Becoming


Francis Bacon, Deleuze on the elasticity of  sensation and movement.


From its most vegetative to its most sublime functions, the living being has need of wonder to move. Irigaray, Ethics of Sexual Difference. 1993


Drawing from the body, creating a transformative force of both air and body


Methodologies for Spatial Agency, thinking in movement between potentialities 


On the Nature of Photography/Contingent Assemblages 


Spaces of wonder between process, material and becoming with the world






Monochromatic Paths of Patina and Process of What Remains Remembered


Anachronistic Makings : Thrown Ceramics and Pinhole Photography


Inscribed markings across the form and surface of a vessel, hollowed out to reflect its reflective void


Leaded window, a frottage as a working drawing


Raku Pot with sepia prints, landscape with pottery


Wrapped, wired and bandaged ceramic, gesso white and linen 


Luminescent veiled and painterley applied light captures an expression of being in the land