Rather than a proposal, this is a brief reflection on the course of this module of study.
As hoped at the outset, there has been both continuity and disjunction with what came before. I persisted within the broad theme of landscape, experimenting further with ways to depict places. I relied on art techniques with which I was familiar, though I extended and combined them in ways that were new. I understood and accepted the limitations of each visual idiom, and hoped to make of their combination something more than the sum of its parts, visually and conceptually.
I set out to let practice lead my research, and this is what I have done. New ideas surfaced, and these guided the form of the final pieces. For example, my central ambition to combine components, collage style, was not established at the start. Neither had I planned the way the works' motif and form would support each other: their mutual dependence on ideas of transition and the uneasy conjunction of disparate parts. From which, a dawning recognition of the 'edges' of this site's title: suburban/rural, print/paint, monochrome/colour. It's this evolution of a theme within the work that makes the more philosophical musings of my opening statement integral to it and not an arbitrary afterthought.
As hoped at the outset, there has been both continuity and disjunction with what came before. I persisted within the broad theme of landscape, experimenting further with ways to depict places. I relied on art techniques with which I was familiar, though I extended and combined them in ways that were new. I understood and accepted the limitations of each visual idiom, and hoped to make of their combination something more than the sum of its parts, visually and conceptually.
I set out to let practice lead my research, and this is what I have done. New ideas surfaced, and these guided the form of the final pieces. For example, my central ambition to combine components, collage style, was not established at the start. Neither had I planned the way the works' motif and form would support each other: their mutual dependence on ideas of transition and the uneasy conjunction of disparate parts. From which, a dawning recognition of the 'edges' of this site's title: suburban/rural, print/paint, monochrome/colour. It's this evolution of a theme within the work that makes the more philosophical musings of my opening statement integral to it and not an arbitrary afterthought.