Annotated Bibliography:

Pick texts that are shorter and condensed – to the point and there is a definite idea or key aspect of the text that links to me work

Find texts that push beyond what I already know about my art practice  - stretch my ideas and stretch my practice into different areas – like a drop into a pond the rings are the important part – they stem from the original idea/ideas/central basis of my practice and explore different ideas, bouncing off new ideas and coming back.

Can start by making simply writing what I feel, then I will be able to reconsider my first response and build on it. I can modify the writing and focus more on the articulation of my response.

Key words:

·         Transcendence (Web definition: a state of being or existing above and beyond the limits of material experience wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn)

·         Transition – the in between stage, personal alteration – may understand change or my be intuitive – and later be able to reflect on  work and draw on new ideas that I can see in it after careful reconsideration and further exploration of ideas and experimentation.

·         The Everyday

·         Fragility/temporality

·         Intensity – in terms of installation  - looking at the accumulation of materials and their ability as a collective to push the viewer’s thoughts beyond their original state – whether the materials have been slightly altered by me or just the way they have been constructed and the multiplicity of materials effects how the viewer sees them, and understands ideas beyond. Intensity also talks a lot about time, labour and commitment of the artist.

·         Time – growth, development, unfolding off the work (often have a general idea of what I want to do but the final product cannot be predicted and will unfold over time.)

·         Gesture – choosing a gesture/ method/ technique to go with the materials I have chosen (or choosing a method then materials) is one aspect of my art practice that I can make a definite decision on right from the start and allows me to make these laborious works. Once I have decided on the particular gesture it is easier for me in my practice to then focus on other factors such as time, labour, intensity, control(to a certain extent), chance, intuition.

·         Repetition

·         Material potential

·         Displacement of materials

·         Craft – making a work look good, and evidence of the hand – labour, craft, intensity

·         Innovation – something new or different introduced, new things or methods.

·         Familiar and unfamiliar

Extra notes from midyr review:

• Be aware of small transformations and simple manipulations in your work so you can respond to them effectively.
• An increased awarness of the role 'gesture' plays in the work would be good.
• The idea of rehabilitating objects - you are taking away objectness from an object by the deconstruction process but through making, giving it back.
• The relevance of craft for it's craftiness - hand having visible presence.
• Time, action, labour = value.
• Thinking about the truth to materials' strategy.......considering both the gesture and materials together to create a work where they work together in harmony and play off each other. 
• Getting a work to go beyond itself and not just end up looking like samples.
• Utilising visual conventions - material transformation, lightness of touch, duration, repetition, arrangement (beauty).

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