Tag Archives: symbols

Tutorial

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Pete

Yesterday’s tutorial was good. Jonathan asked a couple of questions that made me reflect on both the motivation for, and after effects of, my work on me, and that made me reflect about that, rather than the work. We also … Continue reading →

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Published

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Pete

One of the images I created for my public landscapes series – see some here – was published this week in Big Issue in the North. Here it is. It’s nice seeing an image I created in print.

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Draft Research paper – feedback and reflection.

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Pete

Rather than submit an outline of my research paper I had sent Gareth Polmeer a completed first draft of it so when we came to speak I was prepared for the feedback to mean I might have a lot of … Continue reading →

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Project 12: New project and one last diptych?

Posted on June 12, 2015 by Pete

In one of my earlier posts (here) I pondered how I could evoke in viewers a sense of what I see when looking at vistas like this photo of my home. I discussed this with Jonathan in my last tutorial … Continue reading →

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New project ideas

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Pete

I recently visited Penshurst Place in Kent. The historical site includes a Great Hall first built in the 1350s as well as a range of gardens and a mostly inaccessible larger grand building. My assumption when visiting such places is … Continue reading →

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Project 11: building on earlier work

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Pete

The work I carried out here on Tuesday and Wednesday fired me up to create another image in the same vein – that is by juxtaposing symbolism against a similar image without any symbolism (rather than alternative symbols such as … Continue reading →

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Project 11: breakthrough

Posted on June 3, 2015 by Pete

Even though we had an important symposium yesterday I’ve been concentrating on completing this and so will focus on the issues raised at the symposium regarding our research paper over the weekend. I’ve had a bit of a breakthrough with … Continue reading →

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Project 11: words or not

Posted on June 1, 2015 by Pete

I have continued to experiment with the approach of offering viewers images of existing signs next to ones imagined by me. In this first diptych below I have continued to play with existing and imaged signs but have included a … Continue reading →

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Project 11: another, more subtle, approach

Posted on May 29, 2015 by Pete

Another diptych. This time I have tried a subtle approach and selected a vista where the signs are prominent but not overly so and just changes the symbols from passive to active. I think this diptych has a very different … Continue reading →

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Mythologies

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Pete

When I was interviewed for this MA Mythologies (Barthes, 1957) came up and it was clear that some of my earlier work had triggered an association with it for my tutor. So even though I have had the book for … Continue reading →

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