Camera Obscura : Reflections and the dark room.

Camera Obscura : Reflections and the dark room., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Twilight Abstractions : Liminal Zones/Psychological Realities

Twilight Abstraction : Liminal Zone., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

La Jetée "a fusion of science fiction, a psychological fable"

Textual Realities, J G Ballard on Chris Marker.

P6120006 MOV

CCTV Installation/Visual Fine Art.

UK based Visual Artist using drawing and experimental photography to explore issues around embodiment. Interested in creating spatial charged architectural interventions using glass and ceramics as conductive and introspective spaces, surfaces and structures between buildings.

Pinhole Camera/Molecular Sieve Drum : Time as a structure and an event #1

Time as a structure and an event #1, a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

Pinhole Camera/10 Days in the Laundry, Winchester : Blueprint, text and place.

Blue print, text and place., a photo by Russell Moreton on Flickr.

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.

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To build, dwell and explore the space of drawing through intuitive and abstract making.

Drawings/Constructions/Apparatuses.

There is no stage at which humankind does not demarcate, beacon or sign their space, leaving traces that are both symbolic and practical.

The Production of Space.

Lefebrve.

Like drawings, assemblages drawn and made showing the paths taken.

Landing Sites/Holding Places.

Between The Body/Sensing Spaces/Voids.

Perceptions, body, organism, environment,

Mezzanines, lofts, basements, balconies, walkways, scaffolds, access platforms.

Living Architectures/Narratives/Dwelling within the Ruinous. 

Tarkovsky.

Bachelard.

Making Gestures and Connections in Space. 

The Memory of Objects.

The Provocative Combination of Densities.

Inner Architectures/Clay/Sensorial/Conceptual/Places

I placed a jar in Tennessee, 

And round it was, upon a hill. 

It made the slovenly wilderness 

Surround that hill.

The wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild. 

The jar was round upon the ground 

And tall and of a port in air.

It took dominion everywhere. 

The jar was gray and bare. 

It did not give of bird or bush, 

Like nothing else in Tennessee.

Wallace Stevens, ‘Anecdote of the Jar’ (1919)

Innerness for the potter is always at the heart of the practice, as manifested through the opening up of the thrown vessel.

Inner spaces of defined interiors forming vessels that are intrinsically cyclical through light and dark by way of their surfaces and volumes.

Like the cellar, the pots interior and its containment of light and shadow becomes a dwelling space for a submerged primordial memory. (Bachelard/Trigg)

The clay links the vessel to both locality and our geocentric position.

‘Pleasure is moving from darkness to light and vice-versa.’ 

Grafton Architects. Sensing Spaces: 2014

The pot promotes an architecture of the soul, of an intimate yet social interior illuminated through the imagination.

In The Making : Hollowing out Space through Innerness and Difference. 

Quietus : Interiors of Silence and Space.

Innerness : A (sensorial) space or even a place interior to its environment 

Splitting.

Spatial representations/cuttings into the urban/social fabric of architectural redundancy.

Gordon Matta-Clark.

The co-existence of overlaying fragments of construction, by selective excavation and creative demolition.

Castelvecchio an attitude to history. Carlo Scarpa.

Site is the un-doing of place.

Generative and provisional, site-specific investigations for sensing place.  

Hand Built, Slab Ceramics.

Oxide washes, incised lines and piercings undertaken to the raw clay forms.

Architectural Facades/Camera Obscura. 

Dark Room.

Garry Fabian Miller.

The internal mechanisms with which we see and experience visual and physical phenomena depend on a bottom-up approach. Building up from elements of abstraction, the opposite top-down approach of given figuration stifles necessary imagination.

Curiosity, imagination and enthusiasm all hold a power in the mind to ignite the creative act.

The Lake of The Mind.

Steven Holl.

Stochastic thinking suggests an interconnected ecosystem of architecture together with all of the arts to achieve new levels of correlation.lay

Confronting The Human Body : A Body Of Relations

 Outpost 270423

Temporal Demarcations.

Figural Workshop.

Confronting The Human Body.

The Psychology of Nakedness.

Looking/Showing/The Eye/The Gaze.

In the scopic field, the gaze is outside; I am looked at, that is to say, I am a  picture.

The spectacle of the world, in this sense, appears to us as all-seeing, this all-seeing aspect is to be found in the satisfaction of a woman who knows that she is being looked at, on condition that one does not show her that one knows that she knows.

Jacques Lacan.

What is a Picture.

The Split between The Eye and the Gaze.

A Body of Relations.

Reconfiguring The Life Class.

In the article What is a Picture? Jaques Lacan relates the space between the gaze and the eye to the 'screen'. The 'screen' allows the simultaneous perception and projection of the image. In the life class, Lacan's gaze is significant for the life model and the artist as it formulates the intentions of the psychological engagement and reveals the fundamental pursuit of desire in the methodology of life drawing practice. The subject needs to become an object of its own 'scopic drives' and therefore possessed by the perception of others. Lacan's gaze is somewhat estranged from the body, as it never allows for subjectivity to be fully complete.

Yuen Fong Ling. 2016

Palimpsest/Involuntary Surfaces.

Drawing/Corporeal Intertwinings of body/space.

Bodyscapes/Movements/Materials.

Haptic/Visual Abstractions.

 

Life Class/Drawing.

The contested space/subject of the nude as a form of art.

The Impossible Nude.

Transfer/Temporal/Media.

Dyeline Sheet/Rolled Inked Surface.  

Charcoal/Burnt Umber/Pencil

Shading Colour/Glass Pigments/Fired Glass.

Seeing Dark Things : Chemical Photography/Images from the darkroom.

 Concept of a 'Filtow'

A filtered radiance emanating from a vessel not an object interrupting a beam of light.

Seeing Dark Things.

Roy Sorensen.

The thing contained is not the thing contained.

The spherical intersection space was also crafted in curved thin wood layers.

Steven Holl.

The Representation of Deep Time.

The Mutability of Colour Relationships.

Unleashed Colour World.

Manifestations of Unhindered Radiance.

Albers, yellow square.

Monrian, square of yellow in its field of white. 

For both Mondrian and Winifred Nicholson, colour concentrates light and transforms the world.

Flowers were sparks of light.

I used flowers as chalices of light to make my own pictures.

My Cibachrome darkroom has been as much a domestic space as the Alber's basement and Winifred Nicholson's farmhouse kitchen. They are places where ideas about the emotional range of a yellow square can exist as naturally as reflections and shadows cast by the sun and moon.

In this new colour world of mine, the circle became nature, and the square became thought.

 

The circle and square together embody what I think of as human nature.

Dark Room, Garry Fabian Miller.

Generating an Aura.

Fusing and Pulsating Pigment.

Pinhole Photography 

Photo Tin/Medium.

Cromer.

Raveningham.

Site Cyanotypes/Drawings/Intermediaries

Spatial Collages Reconfigured  

The Darkroom's Erasure, a second lecture by Garry Fabian Miller

The Light Gatherers, a lecture by Garry Fabian Miller