This week we have to do a 20 minute talk on something we’ve read that has been inspiring or is helping us with our work. I went to my bookshelf the other day to grab Simulacra and Simulation, as that has been the most interesting book I’ve read/been reading....

15 November 2021 with Jonathan I talked about how I want to put up some ‘boundaries’ so that I will ‘be allowed to/be forced to’ dig deeper into the stuff I’m looking into. It’s very easy for me to flit along finding new things to be interested in and...

As I’m getting hundreds of visitors a day to my blog at the moment, I thought I’d interrupt the Fine Art MA notes and stuff to say ‘hello’ and ‘glad you’re enjoying his show’ and ‘yes, I really am writing on my blog again’. Here’s a short film I...

I pushed this too far… and earlier versions aren’t particularly good… Hmmmm. There are some nice stills, but other than that: Fail....

I learned about ‘metamodernism‘ when I was in my second year at Chelsea. I honestly don’t remember how I came upon it, but it blew my freakin’ mind and spoke to me in the deepest way. It suddenly made everything I’ve been increasingly feeling over the past 15 years...

I had an idea for something last week and wanted to try it. This is my first go and it hasn’t quite worked in the way I was expecting, but there are some interesting things in it that I can use. It’s a time lapse of a film clip...

I originally wrote this for the blog I did during my Foundation and BA, published Feb 6, 2018… One of the requirements for my Foundation diploma is keeping a ‘self-reflective journal’. After trying to write in a journal (with a pen!!!!), and failing, I moved onto this blog. It’s...

“What art is in reality is this missing link, not the links which exist. It’s not what you see that is art, art is the gap. I like this idea and even if it’s not true I accept it for the truth.”[1]http://www.impossibleobjectsmarfa.com/infrathin (Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel...

“What work would you do if you were free to do whatever you want?” This question came up in a discussion with a fellow MA student yesterday. It was something that was asked of him recently… we both agreed that we ARE free to do whatever we want! So...

Where does your inspiration come from? This is one of questions that is asked of anyone who does anything creative and it’s hard to answer. You can list films, books, artists, tv shows, plays etc that you like and have ‘inspired’ you, but to deeply answer the question –...

Journals, articles, websites, online videos, etc that I referenced in my written work at Chelsea. A-ha, 2010. A-Ha – Take On Me (Official 4K Music Video). Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914. Abramson, S. (2014). https://www.huffpost.com/entry/metamodernism-thebasics_ b_5973184. [online] HuffPost. Available at: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/metamodernism-the-basics_b_5973184 [Accessed 10 Dec. 2019]. Abramson, S. (2015). Metamericana. 1st ed....

Books I referenced in my written work at Chelsea. Books Appiah, K., 2005. The Ethics Of Identity. 8th ed. [Kindle] Princeton: Princeton University Press. Baudrillard, J. and Glaser, S., 1994. Simulacra And Simulation. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan. Baym, N. K. 2017. Personal Connections In The Digital Age....

These are the films/tv shows I referenced in all my written work at Chelsea. Films/TV 2001: A Space Odyssey. (1968). [film] Directed by S. Kubrick. Shepperton Studios, Shepperton, England: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Annihilation. (2018). [film] Directed by A. Garland. London, England: DNA Films. Black Swan. 2010. [film] Directed by D. Aronofsky....

We had our first meeting yesterday and I met a few interesting people. Only ‘a few’ because I only got a chance to briefly talk to a few one on one. I’m sure we will have plenty more opportunities to get to know everyone. I need to do a...

I’m about to start an MA in Fine Art. One of the requirements of the course is to keep a blog. I uhmmed and ahhhed about starting a new one or using my art blog that I’d been keeping throughout my Foundation and BA, but decided that I might...