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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Mark-making"”.
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Body, Mat, Mark-Making
… to impose constant and abrupt switching between mark-making and grappling activity. The repetition involved in this structure fuses these two distinct activities into one. The experience of mushin (no-mind), a state one enters when deeply immersed in martial art activity, overlaps into the …
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Poiesis
This thesis examines mark-making techniques in my art and surveys the literary and musical works that inspired it. An historical examination of the role of mark-making in art will be undertaken, beginning with Paleolithic cave art, continuing with Native American petroglyphs and pictographs, and …
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Dual Tense
… to describe the feeling of tension through my mark making.
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In Hindsight: Non-visible Patch Points
… I have developed using slips and underglazes for mark making and soda firing for final surface treatment. This work is the result of my reflections on the concepts of form, shape, balance, time, and connection. </p>
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Aftermath
… figure, limited watercolor palette, expressive mark making, and a distressed surface.</p>
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The drawing of bodies and things - Embodiment, observation, and representation
… question the inherent meaning—or lack thereof—in mark making, authorship of work, and the value of the experience of creation over the value of the object. The body of work questions the heavily codified nature of western representational drawing and how fragile or constructed the standard methods …
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Embodied Landscapes: process and participation in filmmaking
… project applies experimental materialist filmmaking strategies to explore creative ways of working in landscapes with human and nonhuman participants. The research defines landscapes as multi-vocal gatherings of experiences and assemblages that interact in unfinished stories and therefore …
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PARLANCE
… into view ethereal concepts through responsive mark making.</p> <p>Considered technically, the printing process employs a predetermined set of formulas that produce a mathematically-finite set of prints. This systemized method causes common visual elements to disperse among the prints, resulting …
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Snapshot photography : a phatic, socially constructed mnemonic technology
… the images created by the camera obscura by mark-making with the pencil of light as an aid memoir. I argue that the desire to externalise memory using mnemonic technology is innate with primal origins in parietal art and lithic technologies. The discourse explores the cultural evolution of …
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Sounding Out: Performance drawing in response to the outside environment
… developed through three stages. The traditional mark-making onto paper was found to keep a distance between the practitioner (observer) and the subject (the environment). The mark-making transferred onto the outside environment was found to retain a distance, held by the tool, between the subject …
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Drawing Upon Multiplicity: Mark, Body and a Trace of Thought
… practice, where I use bodily gesture to engage a mark-system exploring ‘the point’, I ask how thought in drawing could be imperative to its event (of thinking and making). I examine the proposition that by making physical performance the question of thinking in its event can be critically …
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Effloresce
… vision, allowing the painted surface and mark making techniques to contribute to the depiction of light, form, and emotion.</p>
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Record
… patterns. The unsettling aspect of repetitive mark making in my drawings mirrors in part my psychotherapy, in which the past is revived over and over, as well as the idea of penance absorbed through my Catholic background.Since moving away from Mexico I have been using imagery related to the …
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An archaeology of self
… who engage with the everyday in their art-making. The three main ideas elaborated upon in the body of the text are; the notion of mark making and trace as able to invoke the corporeal presence of the artists; the inclusion of quotidian objects and routines as subject matter within art that …
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The immediacy of the artist's mark in shape computation : from visualization to representation
… to shape computation and algorithmic art-making within the fields of shape grammars and computer graphics still do not consider the immediacy of the artist's mark in drawing and painting. This research examines the canvas, or 2D picture plane, as the expressive and dynamic problem space of …
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The Land of Reverie
… In my work I am able to blend dance, intuitive mark-making, painting, and collage together to achieve an exhalation of delight, wonder, and joy.</p> <p>The following text explores and elucidates my processes of making paintings and creating videos that encapsulate the overwhelming feeling of …
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Walk. Paint.
… and Shaun Galdwell. Walking literally leads into mark making and how I approach painting. Abstract Expressionism and its constituents such as Ian Fairweather, John Peart, Peter Poulet, Peter Sharp, Tony Tuckson, Jackson Pollock and James Drinkwater are discussed in relation to Al Poulet’s …
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ON THE NATURE OF FIELDWORK A COMPOSER'S INTERDISCIPLINARY THEORY AND PRACTICE
… body of practical work in music (composing) and mark-making. The two elements, when taken together, are an illustration of the role which certain types of fieldwork developed by the author may offer the composer if adopted into the process of acoustic invention. The introduction sets forth the …
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Tracing the Grain: Locating the life of the tree in the woodblock
… Tracing information of human and more-than-human mark-making within fragments can reveal multiple stories of life and wear over time. Drawing on practices based in Japan and Mongolia, I locate continuous engagement with woodblocks as communicators of agentic enaction and as sacred records. …
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