Wallace Stevens : Anecdote of the Jar/Vessel takes dominion/Edmund de Waal
The working of matters and the exteriority of their relations. Assemblages/The Book/Deleuze and Guatarri.
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
The Inner Room~Clay/Jug and the Primacy of Being : The Potter and The Philosopher, Coper/Heidegger.
Wallace Stevens : Anecdote of the Jar/Vessel takes dominion/Edmund de Waal
Saturday, 5 April 2025
Between Science and Poetry/Bachelard.
Between the abstract and the figural.
Cyanotype Process/Drawing Boundaries/Bodyscapes.
https://visualartpractices.wordpress.com/
https://russellmoreton.tumblr.com/
Friday, 25 August 2023
Collage/Abstraction/Assemblage/Beyond Discourse : Architectural Plan/ Library/Victorian Corset/Blueprint/Spatial Frame
a thousand plateaus
Deleuze, Guattari
http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/glossary.html
Assemblage
The beauty of the assemblage is that, since it lacks organization, it can draw into its body any number of disparate elements. The book itself can be an assemblage, but its status as an assemblage does not prevent it from containing assemblages within itself or entering into new assemblages with readers, libraries, bonfires, bookstores, etc.
Becoming
Body Without Organs
Nomad
Rhizome
Smooth Space
State
War Machine
Camera Obscura : Reflections and the dark room.
The Library : A Meditation on the Human Condition (Giacometti, artist-philosopher)
Books can step up to us- into us- in many ways.
Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich was for me that rare precipitate force which calls another book into being.
Mario Petrucci, Heavy Water, a poem for Chernobyl.
Paths and Boundaries : Stonehenge
Postmodern : Ever Changing, Fleeting, Positive, Nihilistic,
"There are no simple concepts. Every concept has components and is defined by them.
It therefore has a combination [chiffre]. It is a multiplicity, although not every multiplicity
is conceptual...
Not only do Descartes, Hegel, and Feuerbach not begin
with the same concept,
they do not have the same concept of beginning...
Every concept has an irregular
contour defined by the sum of its components,
which is why,
from Plato to Bergson,
we find
the idea of the concept being a
matter of articulation,
of cutting and
cross-cutting.
The concept is a whole because it totalizes
its components, but it is
a fragmentary whole.
Only on this condition can it escape the
mental chaos
constantly threatening it, stalking it, trying to reabsorb it."
-- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, What is Philosophy?, pp. 15-16.
Footnote
Critical Modernism, where is post-modernism going?
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation
Charles Jencks
Wednesday, 5 July 2023
Articulating Feeling Thought : The multiple sense of being brought from the earth.
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.
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
Saturday, 25 March 2023
Sunday, 3 July 2022
Intermedia : Articulating Sensory Thought. Yard and Metre Event
Cyanotype Project/Poetry Reading : Winchester College
Shroud
Richard Stillman
Yard and Metre Event, Winchester
As the marks resonated, did they sound true?
Could we tolerate margins of error or latitude?
Is there strength in that built by blue ink?
It is hard to see without certainty.
Why have they flown, gathered, shrouded?
Is the date significant? A memorial?
Or is it white noise reverberating,
striking parallels, refusing focus, insisting?
The shape of the cross is still distinct
but opening out, refusing definition,
never quite caught as an intention,
pinned on dimensions it wants to refuse.
Cyanotype from a site drawing, Space for Peace, Winchester Cathedral 2011.
When objects or atmospheres collide energy is transferred, a new force may be created. And, as forensic scientists can attest, when objects touch they exchange traces, each leaves something of itself with the other.
This is why artists enjoy collaborating. Working with another artist can give a jolt of inspiration, a spark of creative thinking, a surge of new skill, the stimulus for a new work. And the experience will leave its mark in some way on each individual’s practice.
The specific ‘collision’ may also result in a work which has its own integrity, which does not belong’ to either party and where their particular contributions merge indistinguishably - in effect fusion takes place.
This is the thinking behind 10 days | Creative Collisions and for The Yard artists and Hyde Writers it was the ideal excuse to come together, to let the shockwaves flow and see what new possibilities emerged. As with all the best creative practice, in science or in art, this has been an experiment, it involved risk, trust and open minds. Whether or not the outcomes are fully resolved they will be filled with potential - and with potency.
Stephen Boyce
The Hyde Writers
The writers revelled in a close engagement with artists and their work. Rather than respond to emailed images, the writers could immerse themselves in the artist’s world. Writers could examine the artist’s studio space, watch the artist working and feel with their own hands the materials in use. They could smell the turpentine, feel clay under their nails and trail their fingers over the rippling textures of paintings. Some writers took artists’ work home, so that they could live with the work. Naturally some artists provided a response to the writer’s work and the non-verbal feedback was unusual and exciting.
Writers faced a dilemma over which aspect of an artist to focus on. Some writers found inspiration in the personality of an artist and others were entranced by a part of the artist’s process. The art itself, of course provided a rich source of creativity. Writers found that the artists’ studios and individual objects within them were inspiring. A fractured shell of a first world war helmet might suggest several stories. Writers could see familiar techniques, such as collage being used by the artists, but they could also understand the strange dictatorship imposed by physical materials. The materials are often tricky things that impose their own rules and can bring uncontrollability into a process.
It was an experience that changed the writers. For ever afterwards a small part of us will be noticing the world from a different viewpoint, such as that of a painter or a sculptor.
Hugh Greasley
The Hyde Writers are a group of poets, novelists, script and short story writers who meet every first and third Monday in the Hyde Tavern, Winchester.
Founded in 2007, the group aims to produce high quality, challenging writing across a diverse range of genres.
The group acts as a workshop to facilitate the development of an individual writer’s works through rigorous yet supportive critical comment
Our members include prize winning novelists and short story writers, published poets and broadcasters, as well as young writers developing their craft.
The Yard Artists
When the studio management group discussed how to represent The Yard in 10 days Creative Collisions, we could not have possibly envisaged the quality and ambition of the project. Several months later, following a successful proposal, speed dating event and BBQ, two thriving creative communities in Winchester have collaborated, partnering artist with writer, and produced twenty six ‘creative collisions’ of new and innovative work. These projects have been prepared for an evening of projection, performance and poetry at Winchester College.
As a collective, Yard and Metre fuses traditional with contemporary, the analytical with the intuitive, the tangible with the abstract, in a collision of observation and enquiry. The breadth of subject and concept, as well as the standard of work produced, is testament to the dedication and enthusiasm of those participating in the project.
Thanks to Beatrix Kovacs, this beautifully designed publication documents the collaboration between The Yard artists and Hyde Writers and pays tribute to the significance of the event.
Jane Price
The Yard is a working studio environment in Wharf Hill, Winchester, established in 2007 by a group of local artists with the assistance of Winchester City Council. It provides affordable studio space within a vibrant, supportive community for up to twenty five artists and aims to promote contemporary fine art in the Winchester district
Cyanotype from a site drawing, Space for Peace, Winchester Cathedral 2011.
Saturday, 1 January 2022
Working Title : Creating Loops
A Study of the relations between painting and the natural sciences in this century
C. H. Waddington
Adam Fuss
Home and the World
Strange Loops
Art, Science and Consciousness
An Exploration of Mind, Matter and Form through the Work of Susan Derges
Stephen Gaughan
The Music of Waves
The Poetry of Particles
Thoughts on Implicate Order for Susan Derges
Martin Kemp
Adam Fuss
Eugenia Perry
Friday, 27 August 2021
Drawing and Assemblage/ Field Perspective and Shadows : Cyanotype Process
Slumped glass panel " evolved " from a head gasket (Hillman Imp) and a note recording failing compression readings.
Drawing and Assemblage : Cyanotype process on watercolour paper with lead profiles.
Terrestrial Movements : #2 Solar Spore.
Aerial Composition (movements inside the Cathedral) : Cyanotype and Sunlight.
Panspermia Exodus 2011
Blueprinted drawing with pierced markings taken from research material gathered whilst registering "Space for Peace" Winchester Cathedral.
Field Perspective and Shadows.
Blueprint from pinhole camera
http://theyardstudioswinchester.com/section/434901_Yard_Metre.html
The Fleeting Cathedral
http://s3.otherpeoplespixels.com/sites/47308/resume.pdf







