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Settling in the space - it's good - put up the little words - set out what. Images words books media all come together Old journals - forgotten ideas re-imagined - fresh. [ butterfly's ] Playing the XX today 'I see you full' so chilled melodic beautiful meaningful meanings looking back over the blog - see you now - read and write for first days blog like a shadow beside me [ you know you are ] ⍇⍈⍇⍈⍇⍈⍇⍈⍇⍈⍇⍈ Looking away and seeing too much. James Elkins ' a picture of seeing that looks like a web or a cats cradle. vision runs back and forth from objects to eyes- and whatever is seen also sees. Seeing is self-definition. Objects look back and their incoming gaze tells me what I am - our sense of ourselves is like a t.v. always going out of focus - we tune and clarify ourselves by seeing.' ⇛⇚⇛⇚⇛⇚⇛⇚⇛⇚⇛⇚⇛⇚⇛⇚⇛ All the little hybrid objects [ sigh]  taken and conjured into situations and worlds that are inventively adorned, allusive [ containing sug...

 towards the start of the residency -it felt quite tight/closed - usual familiar methodology of formalising - making sense - feeling the way.  the images started to take on a life of their own though,  gradually over a period of time became 'free-er' more animated. [ less #exhaustedimage more energised ] Empowered. the possibilities of the large - huge- blank wall were limitless, I wanted to push it. at the time  tweeted that the experience had allowed the practice to expand both literally and cognitively - what did I mean by this? [pick apart that statement - saying it is not enough.] Visual expansion - freedom - open-ended experimentation, the work was ALLOWED TO BE. zero end result expectation - liberating. Cognitively - the process gave an insight into other interpretations - micro and macro -  found myself thinking in terms of the body fragmented [# becomingdata ] not only in relation to digital terminology but also in terms of a biological definition...

the courage of shutting up the courage of the shut mouth in spite of artillery the line pink and quiet a worm basking there are black discs behind it the disks of outrage and the outrage of a sky the lined brain of it Sylvia Plath

Creates visual juxtapositions between action and language, treating language as an object and objects as languages [props]. She warps swops and pops their positions as she works with subversion to unearth the subjection of interpretation/memory. Her installations are conceived for specific occasions disappearing after they are exhibited. Ephemeral - only existing as a digital aftermath. Reconfigured - fragmented - becoming data like accessories to the fact highly deliberately edited/filtered the objects - secret understandings between them across media transubstantiation [qualities of] bodily - really? not sure thinking. Fetishized by the mode of the screen. *Everything is a Maquette

and so wrapping myself around me   a pathetic attempt to re-engage with the things  seemingly becomingly increasingly  dis-jointed jointless. Reading through the last journal bits - bits from my head - bits stumbled across. Failure is a real thing.

Examining and reflecting on the reoccurring motifs within my practice. Exhausted Image Rhizome Strata Democratic Nature The motivation of my studio practice: To work within an environment where the techniques of making oscillate between the analogue and  the digital, where translations between ideas and matter or the reshaping of volume and substance, are in focus for reflection and transfer of knowledge. [self] Transformations can happen by finding other solutions and through unexpected results that provide new experiences, or in the transmission between media that generates a 'glitch' or a perfect finish. #glitchyglitch 

the new dreamy and melancholic work explores the complex and challenging condition of an incorporeal world. abstracted musing and elegatic strains navigate the experience of living in hyperreality with all its inhumanity superficiality and discomforting artificiality. 'The shed skin of the world has drifted up to form a lens over your eyes, your ears are clogged with the same - everything looks too sharp too crisp too juicy - saturation is the mode.'

less and less

'the map that precedes the territory - a precession of simulacra' the real is a production of images: in fact it is no longer really the real, because no imaginary envelopes it anymore. It is a hyperreal, produced from a radiating synthesis of combinatory models in a hyperspace without atmosphere. Baudrillard 1994 Ivan Illich 2014 Hyperobserved Hyperobserving  Serving Observing - Eat Fresh #exhaustedimage #becomingdata Hyperreality - new social reality - a reality generated from ideas - too much reality - more REAL than reality - 'para-reality' - Baudrillard - hot and cool - the cool functional or machinatual pleasure of perfectly simulated fiction Cool - the loss of heat - to be cool is to be apathetic, disillusioned, uncommitted. Time is increasing as an eternal present without end - rather than a linear sequence. Incorporeal - not composed of matter having no material existence.

Sensing the World - An Anthropology of the Senses. - David Le breton 'the penetration of the eye into every sphere has continued unabated, as the current status of the image reveals' According to Jacques Ellul, up until the 1960's images were often illustrations accompanying a text. Words prevailed and the image was a support, 'the information age is embodied in the eye' Ivan Illich 2004 Our sight is now set less on the world than on the countless images that populated screens of every sort. The world is increasingly reduced to images, making media the PRINCIPLE VECTOR of everyday life. 'When the real world is transformed into mere images, mere images become real beings - dynamic figments that provide the direct motivations for a hypnotic behaviour.  Since the spectacle's job is to use various specialized mediations in order to show us a world that can no longer be directly grasped, it naturally elevates the sense of sight to the special preeminen...

 ‘EVERYTHING IS A MAQUETTE’ The title for this  proposal comes from an idea that everything which has gone before has led to the current point. I would like to apply for the opportunity to reside within the space for a period of two weeks. Either 19th February – 4 th March or alternatively a two-week period from the start of May – 10th June to fit around other artists proposals.  Using the opportunity to work in an uncluttered environment where the focus is my practice. I see it as an opportunity to make an excavation – a peeling back and revealing of the work and research. To see what connections can be made from past works and how I come to be at this moment, where I find myself.  Like a giant inversion. Much of the work exists ‘on-line’ across social media platforms blog etc, therefore are transient and ephemeral things existing in digital space, I propose to bring in a printer and make these works a visible tangible and physical thing, through collage – v...

The persistence of collage - the democracy of collage - collage as a creative tool - collage as a 'visualizer' - collage -unconscious - collage deliberate - collage/assemblage -

Starting to research and think about my upcoming residency later in the year. The working title for this is; EVERYTHING IS A MAQUETTE maquette maˈkɛt/ noun a sculptor's small preliminary model or sketch. this text seems relevant at the moment. http://www.kunsthallebasel.ch/wp-content/uploads/KHB_Floorplan_Leckey_E_PF_NEW.pdf