The working of matters and the exteriority of their relations. Assemblages/The Book/Deleuze and Guatarri.
Wednesday, 15 February 2023
Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Dwelling in Brockwood/Kilquhanity : Drawing isn't a matter of tools but perception-a form of engagement.
Outpost 140223
Matters of Concern.
Starting conditions for responsible and curiosity driven engagements with the world.
Creative entanglements in a world of materials.
https://www.flickr.com/people/russellmoreton/
Improvisation is drawing.
Drawing isn't a matter of tools but perception-a form of engagement.
Roni Horn.
Kilquhanity Free School.
Mission statement to enjoy childhood.
Kilquhanity promotes a playful difference amongst the locality.
Back To Freeschool : Drawing Out Of The Archive.
At Freeschool I turned a dwelling place into both a site of introspection and a social construction.
By living together as a social group, learning by the practical 'doing' from which to extract a sense of practical wisdom.
Useful work, promotes a sense of being amongst the social group, of an equality of joined forces for the benefit of Kilquhanity.
Kids encouraged to build camps around the grounds, personal and inter-personal temporary structures that reinforce our sense of 'passing through'.
Kilquhanity seems to suit the individual with confidence and those with good social skills, Architects, Film Makers, Craftspeople, others have found it difficult to rejoin society.
Brockwood Park School
Our consciousness is not actually yours or mine, it is the consciousness of humanity evolved, grown, accumulated through many, many centuries, when one realises this our responsibility becomes extraordinarily important.
J. Krishnamurti.
Projective Speculations, through questioning and research, asking ourselves, how are our intraventions capable of generating previously non-existent possibilities or ideas?
How can architectural projections become tools for engagement in the actual transformation of the world, and to what extent can they be tools for thinking as well as for the articulation, interrogation, and challenging of discourse.
Intraventions in live situations are the main form of engagement, we take part from the inside, in the construction and articulation of 'sites'. We do this by using expanded conditioned, ecologies, localities and actors within a phenomenon in which we operate 'an architecting' as responsibly as possible.
Oren Lieberman, Alberto Altes.
Raveningham Site Visit/Walking in the Landscape.
Ephemeral-Site-Drawings.
The Choreographic Object in The Lanscape.
Land/Demarcations/Spaces/Occurrences with others
Filtered light pieces/land markers
Field Studies/Gathering/Dwelling/Reading/Light/Time/Media
A Phenomenal Lens.
Water/glass dishes/construction, floating/submerged objects/.Cyanotype Print.
Sculptural Array/Sky Watcher/Imaginative Spaces.
Apparatus for Solargraphy.
Mast/Conductor/Transponder,
Hungate Study Day.
Corporeal Annotations.
Reading/Materials/Substances/Phenomena
Water/Light/Architecture/Vessel/Place/Canvas/Filtered Light/Ceramic/Clay
Undercroft Norwich.
Plaster/Slab Components/Assemblages/Forms
Sunday, 12 February 2023
Spatial Agents/Local Materials : Kilquhanity Free School/The Yard and Link Gallery, Winchester.
Camera Obscura : Kilquhanity 2011
Dark Session's : Shadowy speculations in the pottery. Kilquhanity 2011
Silver gelatin prints from a "room obscura" set up at Kilquhanity, Scotland 2011 as part of "Back to Free school, Drawing out the Archive."
Site drawing from "a pathway between sunrise and sunset" staged at Kilquhanity, Scotland 2011. This research has led to notions of architectural "interventions" and " footprints" through the direct observational mapping of celestial alignments and movements as they pass over the landscape.
Thoughts relating to Spatial Practice as a site of operation in which to locate my practice. Use of spatial correspondences (place, identity gesture and resonances) as a means of mapping the diversity of human presence and passage into architectural space.
Possibilities of using methodologies and aptitudes gained from visual fine art and experience with glass and ceramics as architectural interfaces to instigate situations and promote a sense of an interactive spatiality through the role of the viewer becoming an active interlocutor into the dynamics of the site.
Thursday, 9 February 2023
Speculative Projective Reading/Making : Life outside the circle of architecture
Praxis could be the energy produced between combining research and creative embodiment as speculative strategies/assemblages.
Materials and Objects in Social Space
Spatial Practices in The Politics of Things
'Ordinary things contain the deepest mysteries'
The Social Condenser in Operation.
Five figures and a stature distributed evenly in its isotropic space; a picture of the socialized as opposed to the sociable.
Robin Evans,
Figures, Doors and Passages
Photographic Collage with text fragments and disparate images





Saturday, 4 February 2023
Processual Drawing : Bioscleave/Blue Particle Cloud/Diagram.
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Mesh/Material/Light : Cyanotype Process/Drawing Place
Cyanotype photogram from Winchester Cathedral with pinholes.
The Cathedral : Place Studies
Pastoral Space: Material, Inquiry and Craft.
Material Agency : Carl Knappett, Lambros Malafouris
Visualising Environmental Agency
"Agents are defined as persons or things, which have the ability and intention to "cause" something "in the vicinity" or "in the mileau" to happen ( Gell 1998)"
"These latter artefacts are described with the term "index", to remove the appellation "art" and to imply that they are indexes of agency."
Some Stimulating Solutions, Andrew Cochrane.
Filament, drawing on lightweight paper.
Chapel Arts Studios, Andover.
Mesh/Material/Light, Cyanotype Process
Remote Sensing : Medieval Structures
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]
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Maternal Body/Dwelling Place : Clay Impression and Fragmented Form/Raku Beaker Form
Constructed in-situ at the Yard, Winchester. A life-size record and memory of a human presence as a site for mutual introspection.
Inspired in part from the novel " The Children of Men " by P D James.
Artist Statement/Chapel Arts Residency 2010
Practitioner using the creative receptiveness of material together with the inclusion of drawing to harbour transits and passages of human presence, vulnerabilities centred around the human condition. My work adopts strategies which articulate a sense of absence and anonymity within the abandonment of the work to its location. I feel drawn to this registering of passage, encounter together with its farewell. The choice of materials gathered together implies a personal geography, with both an emotional and aesthetic sense of locality and place. The performative recording by physical means which renders itself as a trace of human presence, now becomes a vacant territory open for the consideration of others.
My work continues to investigate this sense of material response with the performative trace of a human absences. The place-ment of these acts attempts to promote thresholds from which to reflect upon spatial, sociological and psychological conditions and perceptions.
Currently working in clay, low fired to produce and promote a fragile vessel. This vessel is installed to act as a dwelling presence reverberating in a resting place. from which work is drawn into the human form to register a surface of absences resulting from past gestures and solitudes.
Russell Moreton a visual artist uses simple gestures of drawn Human traces gathered and presented amongst natural materials. Exploring themes around the Human condition, vulnerability and abandonment. Materials are employed to further underpin our sense of place and time. The act and gesture of drawing adds a ephemeral mark amongst the materiality and locality of place. Currently using clay to register these themes, installing work Augury Vessel into Chapel Arts as part of their research residency programme.
Aesthetics and Subjectivity : Experiential Spaces/The feeling of what happens
Antonio Damasio
The Feeling of What Happens
Body, Emotion and the Making of Consciousness
Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Reverie.
Nick Cave, The Lyre of Orpheus.
Hildur Gudnadottir, Saman.

Wednesday, 1 February 2023
Architectural Light : Drawing into the photographic process
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
Found Objects : Archaeological Photogram
Drawings : Speculative Constructions in Photography
Deleuze claimed that he did not write “about” art, literature, or cinema, but, rather, undertook philosophical “encounters” that led him to new concepts. As a constructivist, he was adamant that philosophers are creators, and that each reading of philosophy, or each philosophical encounter, ought to inspire new concepts. Additionally, according to Deleuze and his concepts of difference, there is no identity, and in repetition, nothing is ever the same. Rather, there is only difference: copies are something new, everything is constantly changing, and reality is a becoming, not a being.
Cell
Court
Domain
Drawing into the photographic process
Poche/Niche : The shaped presence between two surfaces/volumes
Reading Rooms : Waverley Project