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

🦠 I get this feeling

Species of thoughts

πŸ› Species of thoughts

🐳 Thoughts and spaces

🍻 Thoughts growing in Holgate Working Men's Club

πŸͺ± Worming thoughts

πŸ‘Ύ Thoughts are confusing to look at

Reference points

πŸ‘€ Seeing thoughts

🧩 Gestalt

🌬️ The field

πŸ€– Artificial Life and decentralised systems

🌬️ Decentralised Thinking

πŸ’ Extended thoughts

πŸ§ͺ Synthetic Psychology

How do I make the field?

πŸ«₯ Invisible Energies

🫧 An augmented image field

πŸ“² preparing a field of augmented images

🀨 Using augmented images as expectations

πŸͺ¨ A material object field

*️⃣ What does the field look like

πŸƒβ€β™€οΈβ€βž‘οΈ Image field dynamics

πŸͺ‘ The Ground - working with what I have

🫟 A messier field

πŸ€Όβ€β™‚οΈ Capturing competition

Image field activities

πŸ“– intro to the activity

πŸ‘οΈβ€πŸ—¨οΈ Inwardly/Outwardly gestalt awareness activitity

πŸ™Œ Feeling for energies

πŸͺ‘ Moving things in the material field

🀳 Moving things in the augmented image field

πŸ—¨οΈ Talking to images and objects in the field

πŸ‘ŠπŸ½ Hadouken press

Visual Scores

A Space

🧱 This practice needs a space

Notes

🦠 Every thought is a growth

πŸ“Ό Sexuality in analogue times

🫸🏽 Seeing hidden blockages

πŸ‹οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Defensiveness

🌿 Camouflaged Thoughts

πŸ’’ inner outer split

πŸ₯… No such thing as mental space

πŸŽ† Media ether

🫣 Mental space is shame

β˜” Merging mediating thoughts

πŸ‘¨β€πŸΌ Rocking Laelia

🍳 The kitchen hob is singing to me

☣️ External Immune System

🀑 Art as a medium for radical self acceptance

πŸ™†β€β™€οΈ Doing this for myself - what’s happening in the scene as it unfolds

πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ Emotional Synaesthesia

🫧 Invisible felt sensations

🫡🏽 Pressing Outwards

🀸 AR to show the gaps

πŸ«€ Continuous space from heart to room

πŸ’— My body as a sensor

🎈 I always externalise myself

πŸ‘€ That feeling of being watched

πŸͺΌ Being a superorganism

😻 Thoughts are desires

πŸͺ Playing with thoughts without anthropomorphising