Table of Contents
I started this collection of notes in the first few years of my kids being born. For the first few years of each of their lives I had very little studio time, my main artistic practice was writing notes to myself about how I'd like to practice if I had the time. I got into the habit of quickly tapping down ideas on my phone on the loo, on the stairs inbetween fetching teddies/clothes/food or just before falling asleep. As hard as that was, it's really done me a lot of good to just stop for a bit.
I'm slowly combing through them, editing a bit at a time. I feel like I'm restarting my artistic practice, I'm hoping this writing can articulate some of the approach I'd like to take and bring some of the background into focus.
I've added other notes I've made over the years for research under the heading of reference points.
This Practice
Species of thoughts
π Species of thoughts
π³ Thoughts and spaces
π» Thoughts growing in Holgate Working Men's Club
πͺ± Worming thoughts
Reference points
π Seeing thoughts
π§© Gestalt
π¬οΈ The field
π€ Artificial Life and decentralised systems
π¬οΈ Decentralised Thinking
π Extended thoughts
π§ͺ Synthetic Psychology
How do I make the field?
π«₯ Invisible Energies
π² preparing a field of augmented images
π€¨ Using augmented images as expectations
*οΈβ£ What does the field look like
πββοΈββ‘οΈ Image field dynamics
πͺ The Ground - working with what I have
π« A messier field
π€ΌββοΈ Capturing competition
Image field activities
ποΈβπ¨οΈ Inwardly/Outwardly gestalt awareness activitity
π Feeling for energies
πͺ Moving things in the material field
π€³ Moving things in the augmented image field
π¨οΈ Talking to images and objects in the field
ππ½ Hadouken press
Visual Scores
A Space
Notes
πΌ Sexuality in analogue times
π«Έπ½ Seeing hidden blockages
ποΈββοΈ Defensiveness
πΏ Camouflaged Thoughts
π’ inner outer split
π₯ No such thing as mental space
π Media ether
β Merging mediating thoughts
π¨βπΌ Rocking Laelia
π³ The kitchen hob is singing to me
β£οΈ External Immune System
π€‘ Art as a medium for radical self acceptance
πββοΈ Doing this for myself - whatβs happening in the scene as it unfolds
π€·ββοΈ Emotional Synaesthesia
π«§ Invisible felt sensations
π«΅π½ Pressing Outwards
π€Έ AR to show the gaps
π« Continuous space from heart to room
π My body as a sensor
π I always externalise myself
π That feeling of being watched
π» Thoughts are desires

