most of the journal browsing I do regularly is posts coming from different sites:
juxtapoz
Flak photography
Art News
and Dazed
Colossal
lots of of punchy short articles with links to new artists, movements exhibitions and copy.
This one stood out.
Can't say I feel that coming into college is something to survive. BUt taking risks to try new things isn't so much of an issue either it's the dissecting and discussing them after.
it's the confusing combination of 'don't worry' er I"m not but I'm paying for this course so I am going to take it seriously/intensely to the conflicting opinions we get on our work. THe latter is much more interesting, motivating and revealing.
Hearing the repetition of some that for some reason I've wanted to blank out rather than go, ok that's good. Fragile, subtle, repetitive, abstract, monochrome.
Getting to the stage where I need to do the brain-freezing part of the course which is evaluation, analytical (but not necessarily critical..) overview of what my themes and work has been about.
Finding it easier to get realise I'm not about done pieces, that if something doesn't look right it's because it hasn't got enough layers and needs coming back to. But also wary of creating a visual almighty mess of a piece in an attempt to create some energy and spontaneity with some marks.
Looking forward to the summer break when I can try and work on stuff out the way of a sometimes gaze filled room and see if I can maitain some momentum and motivation and support of my own practice.
I seem to plan first, then do in a rush, that's where I feel I'm making the most spontaneous and creatively satisfying decisions.
i never thought I would go back to doing a second video but the light and movement and speed of the shots was too hypnotic to not do. With an objective hat on I think the stuff is mundane, run of the mill stuff, but I need to park that and hope that something more sparky and original starts appearing if I start following the themes until I've worn them out.
And the themes are:
subtle repetitive marks
pared back palette but strong contrast
patterns, movement, nature based textures or marks.
a quiet hopefully unobstrusive (personal symbolism) that makes things feel slightly less Hallmark card like and more satisfying to me at least.
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