Thought it would be a good idea to have a blog record of the notes taken for me at my critiques. Thank you to Margaret, Margy and Julie for writing it all down! 🙂
Notes from Critique One:
- Photographs as stand-in or replacement of memories
- Slippage in translation
- Some interesting looks with regard to formal qualities
- Photographic ‘moments’ limiting the view
- Memory exists as fragments, some in black and white some colours, blurs versus details.
- Ideas of nostalgia (negative?)
- Dealing with different representations: marks, shapes lines
- Photographs are not actually memories. No one prints off photos anymore – loss of history and experience
- Perspective, interest in the idea of looking down at a crowd.
- Cinematic, ‘God’s eye view’
- Idea of a frozen moment of time rather than focus on memory
- Clues about context of imagery
- Suggestions to work larger
- Less focussed, more abstract, pixelated? Dots?
- References to new technology
- Re-looking, remaking
- Surreal, uncanny
- Drawing telling lies
- Held back by need to justify statement.
- Does it matter that they don’t look alike? Does this represent forgetting?
- Too respectful to the object
- How does viewpoint and scale alter perception?
- Images as a sequence
- Drawing from memory
- Look into colour
- What is working formally?
- Play with dexterity –give space to focus on the making
- Disruption of the drawing
- Colour too pretty –maybe merit in leaving them as-is
Notes from Critique Two:
- Circles, empty space, lost memory. Enjoyment of white space as much as image
- Peepholes
- Evidence of a decision making process vs complete image
- Man reflected in mirror: Interest in the images around the mirror
- Use of watercolour ties in with memory visually, strength in combination
- Crowd scene –use of watercolour indistinct like memory
- Photo, drawing, photograph of drawing –what gets lost in translation?
- Interference with the image by drawing.
- Translation a key word
- Adding things, reinventing, leaving things out (ie what is not remembered)
- Re-enacting the ideas, performance as a strategy
- Suggestion of losing detail by adding a semi-transparent layer, ethereal, loss of memory
- Maybe memory is too simplistic?
- Memory in contemporary times is different looking
- Blade Runner
- Chris Marker: La Jetee/ Sans Soleil.
- How do I select photos?
- Lots of things going on: memory, precious objects, translation/transfer, removal of information
- Drawing as a distancing tool
- Interest in loss, but not in a nostalgic way
- Depictive –action between the works
- Performative act of making copies
- Mike Kelly
- Erica Van Song?
- Painting at the edge of the world
- I love Dick by Chris Kraus –autobiography as cultural theory
Notes from Faculty Panel:
- What are my hunches?
- What is out of my comfort zone? Marks less considered
- Pencil + Watercolour -fluid medium as ‘other’ to the pencil
- The crowd image as a jumping off point for investigation
- some works have a sense of fidelity to recapturing it, vs a journalism approach which is an interpretation of it.
- Ideas of slippage and loss
- limited tonal range, like a faded rendering of original
- Sense of ownership of the documentary image more than the idea of translation
- Bathes and Berger have a specificity in their writing: sight, vision, etc
- Documentary image: you understand the image, yet so much is pattern like.
- Sight, seeing, inventing
- flattening the practice through it being only one of translation.
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