(A) Proust's irremediable solitude 2016- 2018

Texts / Key Reading: Lacan / Derrida /Larkin.

Outcome – textual and visual artefacts for display and archive
Status Current – 2016 ongoing – towards 2022

'Bloom from Trauma'
Stockhausen esque roots and bonds to place etc ' This body of Creative Practice is all specific to unique specific topographies and site specific cultural markers but is universal to the child and human condition

Primary focus for this project - Drawing and Mixed Media - Humanities and Ontology - visualising familial and wider companionship - bond - commitment - love of people - the lost - the missing - the ghost & place as a conduit.

Bloom from Trauma & Stockhausen esque roots and bonds to place etc

1:
Marcel Proust's Irremediable solitude: (Beckett)

Sam Beckett quote “Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.”

2:
The FERMI Paradox "Where is everybody in the Universe'' ?

The Concept of FERMI's Paradox is that despite the huge odds for extra-terrestrial Life beyond Earth - we have located nothing. On Earth we develop strong attachment and sense of Place to Earth and Habitat - to 'HOME"
People, objects and Place. I discuss this visually and in Text - but as Poetics and speculation - not seeking empirical outcomes

Excavation - exploration / Ambiguity and personal interpretation

Sources : 20th Century Popular Culture - Existentialism and The exploration of visual language in relations to Psychological states of solitude, Isolation and juxtaposed with that of attachment, Companionship and Friendship - sharing, Transference, Intuition, Instinct, Love etc

Singular and Group work formats 1; Singular and Group work:

Outcomes: A visual and textual document ( Portfolio of drawings - and a Pamphlet/Zine/ set of pamphlets - text and image documents,
that explore perception in relation to :’Observations ‘seen’ perceptions ‘felt’.

Preserving historical and autobiographical observations / sightings and also specific seasonal circadian perceptions /states