Tuesday, 1 February 2022

Locality/Social Complexity and the Everyday : Works on Paper


Cyanotype is a photographic printing process that produces a cyan-blue print. Engineers used the process well into the 20th century as a simple and low-cost process to produce copies of drawings, referred to as blueprints. The process uses two chemicals: ammonium iron(III) citrate and potassium ferricyanide.

The English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel discovered the procedure in 1842.[1] Though the process was developed by Herschel, he considered it as mainly a means of reproducing notes and diagrams, as in blueprints.[2] It was Anna Atkins who brought this to photography. She created a limited series of cyanotype books that documented ferns and other plant life from her extensive seaweed collection.[3] Atkins placed specimens directly onto coated paper, allowing the action of light to create a silhouette effect. By using this photogram process, Anna Atkins is regarded as the first female photographer.[4]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mesh/Material/Light, Cyanotype Process

Locality/Social Complexity- Works on Paper

DSC_6026 Hortus Conclusus













https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/42235368954/in/dateposted-public/






Transitional Spaces : Boundaries/Edges, Architectural Inquiry.




























Monday, 31 January 2022

Alternative Realities : Experimental documents, visual material from site based projects.


Twilight Abstraction : Liminal Zone.

Marking Stick : Leylines, Directions and Sites.

Found Objects : Archaeological Photogram
When you make photograms, without the use of a camera, you can indeed call that abstract photography, as the lens and the corresponding registration medium are lacking. No longer do you have pictures of reality or objects; you only have their shadows. It is a bit like Plato’s cave, where one could only imagine reality; the objects themselves were not visible.
—Thomas Ruff

Waverley Abbey, interior with pinhole camera




















Book/Assemblages/Mapping : Body, Static Movement, Blueprints

Spatial Practices
Architecture, Fine Art, Performance
Blueprint, Photogram and Collage.

a thousand plateaus
Deleuze, Guattari

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

http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/glossary.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/russellmoreton/7459535864

Assemblage/Garden Design : Architectural Plan/Victorian Corset

DSC_6288 Studio Assemblages

The 1960s Body Through Sculptural Movement and Static Dance
Maya Bartel

DSC_6217 Winchester Cathedral : Static Movement/Space for Peace















Thursday, 27 January 2022

Espace-Milieu : Painting as Environment

 Aerial
 Social Mappings. Winchester Cathedral : 
 Space for Peace 2011.

Crafting the mind : Human Inhumation/Containment

Julian Stair
Quietus/The Body Politic

Morality
Jonathan Sacks

Co-Existing with the Virus

Jozef Van Wissem
Grand Central Confessional

Nature Boy
He said that in the end it is beauty
That is going to save the world, now
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds









"Spatial turn" 
The increased attention to matters of space, place and mapping in literary and cultural studies, as well as in social theory, philosophy, and other disciplinary fields.

Spatiality, Robert T. Tally Jr. Routledge 2013.