Blog curation based on the leraning autcoms of the Unit 2
Learning Outcome 1:Develop and realise a self-directed programme of learning which draws from wide-ranging subject knowledge. (AC Knowledge, AC Process)
Learning Outcome 2:Articulate a thorough understanding of your research and establish an informed critical position. (AC Communication)
Learning Outcome 3:Analyse and critically reflect on your practice and its context. (AC Enquiry)
Learning Outcome 1: Develop and realise a self-directed programme of learning which draws from wide-ranging subject knowledge. (AC Knowledge, AC Process)
My artistic journey is fuelled by the question of why. It is similar to a passenger on a never-ending journey. My relationship with art is at a level of continuous learning, discovery and observation. This manifestation is the seed that remains hidden. Life is about moments, but what do you do when those moments are horrors?
I started playing while my wife was hospitalised. It was the tulips that she loves that inspired me to start making rayograms and chemigrams. Those prints are almost reflections of my own mind. They are busy and chaotic
Marks on paper
Thoughts
Etchings on soul
Mapping histories
Scars and smiles
Emotions
Carves of life
I was here
I felt
I dreamed
I lived
There are major shifts in what I do now compared to the end of the Unit 1, even though the journey wasn't as I wanted it to be as I had to deal with unexpected challenges, difficulties, or obstacles. I started to understand why it is important to keep doing what I do. I started to understand why it is important to just play. I started to learn to set myself free from the imprisoning mindset. On few occasions, I was ready to give up, to move away from the course, and that would have been ok. Sometimes, we need a pause and take the space to just breathe, to just be.
I see my art set into three categories. Experimenting while learning narrative and new ways of making,
I am working on a few major projects:
The work on the River Thames
Exploring Non-places and Decay
Playing with the narrative using Polaroids
Using chemigrams to explore emotions and philosophical meanings
Looking at the archive left behind by my grandfather Emil.
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Learning Outcome 2:Articulate a thorough understanding of your research and establish an informed critical position. (AC Communication)
Learning Outcome 3:Analyse and critically reflect on your practice and its context. (AC Enquiry)
I'm still learning to reflect and analyse.
"Education is the movement from darkness to light " Allan Bloom (1930-1992). This quote resonates with my journey and the exploration in my work as I find myself navigating a path from fear and unknown to understanding.
Reflecting on my journey through Unit2, I feel I embraced playfulness as a foundation while trying to find a narrative driven by the flow of a river. Im still connected with my work on the Thames, but while documenting my emotions through the non-figurative chemigrams and appreciating the beauty of the every-day, the forgotten but also the feer of loss, the pain seeing my wife suffering, the depression fueled my my struggles and way experiences of life.
The creation of chemigrams, where the chaos and darkness are made by the transformative action of the darkroom chemistry, water and light ,symbolizes the unknown, the depression and my anxieties transformed. They mirror my educational journey of embracing change and moving towards learning to set free.
The unpredictability of the chemigrams teaches me to accept the unkown of life, the impermanence, the changes, the moments of when I dont have control. I recognise how my art changes my mindset, as it reveals the ephemeral emerging from the balance of lack of control, fear and chaos.
The creative process becomes a path that allows me to experience shifts towards connection and self-acceptance, reminding me that growth often requires stepping into uncomfortable spaces.