And I think 'Tolerating Uncertainty' is the better option, perhaps with the quote aswell.

I don't understand this website. I like that suggestion for a title Claire..what you wrote sounds like it could contribute nicely to the blurb aswell.

Tolerance of Uncertainty

Or
Tolerating Uncertainty

It is not doubt, but certainty, that leads to madness.

(it was that there Nietzsche fellow that said that, he did)

As a title. How about it?

I think this title has some potential. It allows us to do all sorts of different things. We can play visual tricks with the viewer to activate uncertainty; we can embrace it as part of our working process, allowing for risk and chance to direct the visual nature of our artwork; we can be hesitant, reluctant, careful; we can make it political and accept uncertainty as a healthy frame of mind that keeps hearts open to new ideas; or we can explore our own emotional uncertainties. We can do all sorts of things with it because we are very clever and creative people.

Just an idea. I look forward to talking about some other ideas tonight! Apologies for missing the meeting yesterday. I am silly.

Hey Kids

Hey guys,
Right - this took me a long time to work out how to use...!

Hopefully we can all brain storm tomorrow regarding Minto..I'm really not fussed with which tutors come - i've always loved Professor Richard Thomson but I dont think he would necessarily be able to give us much...i'd purely want him present for selfish reasons as my work does semi-link with what i covered in my dissertation and he was my supervisor.But no worries :) i'll just invite him along to the opening night.

Eileen Lawrence at the college is my tutor this year and i have found that she can give brilliant feedback; not necessarily always positive but it definitely gives you food for thought and i have found her to be the best i've had yet.

Just to quickly sum-up my work i'm basing it on the female form and body manipulation/alteration. most of last semester was gathering an immense amount of research material and my work was mainly drawing based. this semester i have started to prepare myself to create 3-dimensional pieces from various materials reflecting a darkened beauty.
I didn't put anything into the Jan exhib (idiot didnt know deadline was first day back) but for Minto i am not definite on what i'm putting in...either something along the photograph route or hopefully an object.sorry to be vague.

anyway, i'll see u guys tomorrow - hope you're all working hard :)
xxx

Maths and Art

I have been interested in maths for a long time and interested in its use in art. For my dissertation I wrote about maths in contemporary art, but particularly the difficulties in producing this kind of work.

Maths is an ideal subject which means it cannot be translated into our reality at all without aquiring imperfections. My practical work has demonstrated this - although Plato's Toys, displayed at the January exhibition, look very finished they are far from mathematically accurate.

I supplied gloves at the exhibition so viewers could pick up the objects and experience them more directly. I hope that this will enable a more intuitive understanding of geometry as opposed to the very dull and standardised way it is taught in the maths world. Also by allowing them to be touched deconstructs the elitist purity of sculpture and painting them in bright colours detracts from the seriousness of ancient mathematics.

This work takes a very long time to make so I may have to display this work (Plato's Toys) again for Minto. However, I hope to have a new piece which will be a dodecahedron painted with a simple perspective scheme on each of its twelve faces. The viewer can pick it up and view each side. Again it allows direct contact with maths, but also hints at the idea of multiple dimensions. Each face represents a separate reality which all exist in the same space of the dodecahedron, but they cannot be viewed or experienced simultaneously. The dodecahedron was also named by Plato as the symbol of the universe which is quite fitting with the idea of different dimensions.

Pictures to follow.

about Rebecca's work

Hi! I believe this blog is for us to exchange our ideas before we meet so our meetings will be more efficient, so, since our meeting is looming (Wed 12.30pm canteen right?) I thought I’ll write something about my work now, and I hope I’ll see some of your ideas too! Hopefully that will help us pick a theme for the exhibition that will be relevant to all of our work.

The main visual/aesthetic element in my work at the moment is figurative shadows. In the Blueprint Exhibition I made an installation that concealed a person but publicly displayed his shadow. The materials I often use are white fabric and figures (paper cut-outs or real person), so the effect is quite neutral and low-key. But I would consider the ‘work’ to be the sometimes-vague, sometimes-sharp moving image and the range of interpretations/connotations about human relationships that come from the ephemerality/elusiveness of the shadow’s presence.

Since Minto is not a huge space, and even painters are beginning to move away from making work that hangs on the wall, I was thinking of making a video. I only came up with this idea today so it’s really not-developed, but I imagine it to be something like a projection of moving (or maybe still) shadows.... something like that. :P