Research Collage/ Photographic Drawing : 10 June 2012.

Research Collage/ Photographic Drawing : 10 June 2012., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Collage of current research interests, activities and processes.

"A Stones Throw" : Clay with drawing frame and measuring rod.

"A Stones Throw" : Clay with drawing frame and measuring rod., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

A dwelling space for a performative drawing/mapping space with clay set-up in the studio.
Yard Studio "Open Event" 2010.

Assemblage on Lead,Cyanotype,Transparency and Drawing (8) Possible Worlds 2

Assemblage on Lead,Cyanotype,Transparency and Drawing (8) Possible Worlds 2, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Text Extract/Inclusion. "Pure Presence"

The enchantment of modern life: attachments, crossings, and ethics : Jane Bennett 2001.

It is a commonplace that the modern world cannot be experienced as enchanted--that the very concept of enchantment belongs to past ages of superstition. Jane Bennett challenges that view. She seeks to rehabilitate enchantment, showing not only how it is still possible to experience genuine wonder, but how such experience is crucial to motivating ethical behavior. A creative blend of political theory, philosophy, and literary studies, this book is a powerful and innovative contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary conversation about the deep connections between ethics, aesthetics, and politics.

As Bennett describes it, enchantment is a sense of openness to the unusual, the captivating, and the disturbing in everyday life. She guides us through a wide and often surprising range of sources of enchantment, showing that we can still find enchantment in nature, for example, but also in such unexpected places as modern technology, advertising, and even bureaucracy. She then explains how everyday moments of enchantment can be cultivated to build an ethics of generosity, stimulating the emotional energy and honing the perceptual refinement necessary to follow moral codes. Throughout, Bennett draws on thinkers and writers as diverse as Kant, Schiller, Thoreau, Kafka, Marx, Weber, Adorno, and Deleuze. With its range and daring, The Enchantment of Modern Life is a provocative challenge to the centuries-old ''narrative of disenchantment,'' one that presents a new ''alter-tale'' that discloses our profound attachment to the human and nonhuman world.

Research Journal : July 2012 :d

Research Journal : July 2012 :d, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

29 August,

There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don't need permission for them. There's more truth about a camp because that is the position we are in. The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we're just passing through.

Wildwood : A Journey Through Trees. Roger Deakin

Research Journal : July 2012 :a

Research Journal : July 2012 :a, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

29 August, 2012.

There's more truth about a camp than a house. Planning laws need not worry the improvising builder because temporary structures are more beautiful anyway, and you don't need permission for them. There's more truth about a camp because that is the position we are in. The house represents what we ourselves would like to be on earth: permanent, rooted, here for eternity. But a camp represents the true reality of things: we're just passing through.

Wildwood : A Journey Through Trees. Roger Deakin

Artists Book (607) Leylines, the hut.

Artists Book (607) Leylines, the hut., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Movements and Archaeology : Traces and Piercings (magnified view).

Movements and Archaeology : Traces and Piercings (magnified view)., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Cyanotype photogram from Winchester Cathedral with pinholes.

"In the water" : Pinhole Photography/ Floating Camera. #1

"In the water" : Pinhole Photography/ Floating Camera. #1, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

In Defence of Sensuality : John Cowper Powys 1930.


Foreword.

The author feels that perhaps some explanation is due to the reader for the rather unusual employment of the word "Sensuality" which serves as the title of this work. The advantage given to the author by the use of this particular expression is that it enables him to proceed from rock-bottom upwards as far as he likes. A more refined title would have cut him off, in his method of developing his idea, from the physical roots of existence; for while it is easy to indicate the overtones and undertones of Sensuality it would be hard to bring a gentle, vague word, like the word "sensuousness" down to the bare, stark, stoically-stripped Life-Sensation which is the subject of this book.

J.C.P.

Dedicated to the memory of that great
and much-abused man

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Artists Book, "Leylines" an art based inquiry.

Artists Book, "Leylines" an art based inquiry., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Artist’s Book: white and coloured pages, card covers with cyanotype of Winchester Cathedral.

A hand bound book comprising of five signatures each with four folios. This book contains a collection of postcards made from contact prints and photograms from Tidbury Ring using the cyanotype process. Other pages contain some cyanotype paintings/abstracts around the theme of dwelling and hut. Silver gelatin images of St Catherine’s Hill are present as are some experimental pinhole photography.