Despite the heading, this is not a proposal. Instead, it is a reflection, after the event, on what I have been seeking to achieve throughout this module of study.
It is clear to me that my overall aim has not changed, though the specific means to pursue it were not known at the outset (e.g. the relevance of the geographers' 'landscape studies', or the choice to use a multi-part presentation in my painting 'View From a Train: 23 Seconds').
My central preoccupation has unswervingly been 'landscape', and my particular interest has been to investigate how to depict places as landscapes, knowing that contemporary critical thought understands this to be problematic.
An early concern was to identify the nature of the problems. I declared the methodologies that I meant to employ in a previous course of study (#AR7001), namely:
These methodologies have been both appropriate and adequate to the task, as the description of my research activity makes plain. All four approaches are documented there.
At the outset I envisaged making paintings and prints and, possibly, ceramic work. Although I started work in all three media, the unfortunate loss of workshop facilities has meant that submitted work is almost exclusively painted (a small video clip also features).
It is clear to me that my overall aim has not changed, though the specific means to pursue it were not known at the outset (e.g. the relevance of the geographers' 'landscape studies', or the choice to use a multi-part presentation in my painting 'View From a Train: 23 Seconds').
My central preoccupation has unswervingly been 'landscape', and my particular interest has been to investigate how to depict places as landscapes, knowing that contemporary critical thought understands this to be problematic.
An early concern was to identify the nature of the problems. I declared the methodologies that I meant to employ in a previous course of study (#AR7001), namely:
- Art historical
- Philosophical
- Critical
- Practical.
These methodologies have been both appropriate and adequate to the task, as the description of my research activity makes plain. All four approaches are documented there.
At the outset I envisaged making paintings and prints and, possibly, ceramic work. Although I started work in all three media, the unfortunate loss of workshop facilities has meant that submitted work is almost exclusively painted (a small video clip also features).