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16/10/2024
Johanna Love is the current MA Printmaking Pathway Leader for UAL Camberwell. She has interest in making images that operate the limits of human perception through print, drawing, and photographic languages that are often combined together. Her works mostly contemplate the themes revolving time, memory, and mortality.
Jo talked alot about her artistic and research journey. Where one simple question can lead to another, and that's how her research and art kept on growing and growing. She also talked about the ★ Practice-based Research Methodology: A multi method research approach that includes:
(1) Case Study research,
(2) Historical study,
(3) Practical experiments,
(4) Literature review.
Through this, I learn the importance of approaching our research through all these methods at once. I am someone who over-prepares through literature reviews before starting artwork and end up crunching in the hands on art making process and trials.
Ah.. the traditional media (writing on paper) is always the best. In touch with a surface. The hard part is keeping up with the speed of my brain. My brain goes faster than my ability to write. LOL.
Jo (printmaking’s path leader)’s talk is very inspiring. I became aware of a lot of things. (1) Stop internalizing your struggles! Verbalize it! Complain on the phone! Write it! Jo talked about her art process. How 1 thinkg lead from 1 simple uestion about the medium and media led to other questions, to more questions, to even more questions, to finding people with the same thought, etc.
Talking with Kanti made me also realize that I love to be vulnerable. I talk alot about being naked. About exploring my vulnerability through exploring the unconscious, my dreams. Turns out that is my big umbrella of ideas.
At this point of my research, I was in the process finding out the bigger theme in my works, where from listening to Johanna Love's talk made me realize that maybe the theme that embraces both my interest in dreams and tactile is vulnerability.