working in a niche - pros and cons

is drawing from other artworks E.g. sculptures candid?

Artwork: Itchin & Scratchin by Denzil Forrester 2019 - impressionistic - can tell shapes are people but when you look closely can't see how 

Artwork [find title] screen showing funeral services live-streamed online - product of the pandemic

attention span - text can help to do this. How to create a focal point in drawing using more detailed, shaded areas. 

How viewer looks at artwork (curve from bottom left to top right)

repurposing old artworks and reusing discarded materials

Purity of photography. Recontextualisation. Instinctual creative processes: 'Stock photos can represent a repository of global viewpoints, or the mediocrity of the world through censored images, or as a collection of simulated realities, any of which an artist can harvest the aesthetic or emotional content and use it as material (ammunition) for their own work.'

Data and surrealist processes - embed ideas in own language

Consumer perception of the world - sub-titling things that can't be describe. Isn't art for the purpose of depicting aesthetics, experiences, atmospheres that can't be described 

Scalability - we live in age where everything is in the context of huge scales (globalisation). We scale according to social media, exhibitions etc. Is working at a smaller scale harder? - getting details, sharper pencil etc. requires more control

Playing with ambiguity. Nocturnal scenes i.e. from dreams, or in the night time. In darkness you see differently - things move in and out, flashes/there and gone - low contrast contributes to this - CANDID (always more lo-fi, immaterial images). Mysterious, feeling you can't describe. Again - trying to depict what can't be expressed in words. 

Can animals be candid, are they always candid? Humans are animals too but have gained an extra/another way of being where we can present as well as be perceived

HOW TO ENDURE - neither of us could answer this

Finding common ground - art reflecting not only artist's experience and point of view but general feelings of society, state we're in

Spontaneity, 'intelligent hands', resulting in quick, raw drawings, brushstrokes, more abstract. 'Apocalyptic' look, graffiti. 

Everything feeling wrong at the moment, art as a way to express what's bothering you, things you can't express in words. 

Defining yourself through art, your art being a definition of you

Comfort materials i.e. for some people this may be pen, may be pencil - smoother, easier for you to work with

Ambiguity - 1. capturing images you didn't conceive of 2. harvesting emotional content 3. presenting them out of context. Creates 'aesthetic mystery' - is this responsible? Where is credit due? How does it work when representing different cultures (same or different culture to your own)? Do you need to give historical context? Does this reduce the work if weren't interested in it for it's original meaning but only in its aesthetic benefits i.e. only wanted it for the look?

Candid works often abstract until viewer attributes meaning to what they're seeing. Should it be this way? Could we say this about most art? Does overexplaining ruin it? Viewer response greater than the artist's intention

Matching photos with drawings - same energy

Materials reflecting mindset and also content E.g. using cheap, lightweight paper for quicker drawings. Cherish less - freedom to experiment. Readjusting to a new process - learning 

How brains perceive artwork - art representing small spaces make our sense of time speed up or slow down. How much time can we spend in that compressed space until we need to leave it. Zooming in for detail

Consistent message throughout body of work

Thinking about more drastic ways of installing e.g. printing lifesize.

Bringing different parts of self/interests together e.g. graphic and drawing work - incorporating selves

How materials can impact content

Adding motifs intuitively e.g. numbers, different for everyone. What we're drawn to. Why? Deciding to add embellishment. Unconscious. Only notice over time 

Artworks changing with seasons - liveliness, brighter colours in summer (emotion), christmassy works!

Question - how would you display in ideal world? Techniques to mount paper work. Difficult esp. with thin paper

Experimenting with working in different conditions e.g. outside, to time etc.

Representing man-made in nature - how it compares

Life drawing practice - how to get different poses included in same image. Faces Homework for Claudia - draw faces!!

Getting back to self in work. How other people interpret - can't help it. People being able to appreciate without knowing intent, ambiguity in candid work

Reception theory - how does meaning of work change over time? Something which isn't ready to shown when it's made can enter 'artefact territory', become more appropriate. Documentary photography, just observing

Differing responses from men/women

How close

Permission or forgiveness - can't ask for permission with candid photos or wouldn't truly be candid?

Ordinary, not influencing scene, taking photo as you see it, some of the most ordinary photos documenting dress etc. turn out to be most successful, importance from anthropological point of view. 

Ecocentric society, never seeing ourselves properly. Either through a phone (front camera, always flipped) holiday photos always having people in them (us in front of something)

Sketchbooks, extra candid space - private, how does this impact the way we work, techniques to exhibit, should we show? is it art if no one ever sees it [working on every other page, scanning and displaying digitally alongside physical book, creating prints from pages to be framed]

Too scared to use in case its good, using sketchbook as tool, graveyard for rejected drawings, to test paint colours etc. 

How adding collage elements changes meaning of work - adds exciting element