Creative Project Proposal CAAD 5007
THE CREATIVE IMPULSE
“Fire never burns
in the same place twice” Batty Thunder Bear
The previous
interpretive project inspired me to work through the additional medium of oil
paint, and to look at light and dark, the subject of fire has sparked
inspiration to capture a moment in moving time – light from the darkness – lux
e tenebris. I found oil paint perfect to capture the movement and immediacy
of fire. Fire is symbolic of the surge of inspiration between self and tools.
I have to start
looking at this project from a number of directions; to use just my mind leads
me to frustration, jumbled thoughts and a muddled concept.
The initial up
welling of an idea / concept for me is largely subconscious and takes many days
/ weeks to start to float to the surface and take shape only when I interact
with resources and tools. As I learn best kinesthetically I find a physical approach, where my
passion and inspiration is channeled through my body and tools as if they were
one (rather than my mind’s separation from body and tools); more beneficial to
my practice.
I am always looking at ways to express
the relationships between things or people, how the synergy of being and paint
can create something so much more than the two contributing factors. I
particularly value the phenomenological approach to art when two apparently
separate entities create a thing, of a unique moment in time without
preconception or formula.
I have been discussing the work of Martin Heidegger with several
philosophy student friends since incorporating it into my most recent essay on
Modernism and Postmodernism, and looking at how different it is from any other
philosophy following Descartes. He advocates ‘Dasein’, commonly translated as
‘being there’ and not seeing oneself as outside the world around.
“… is that the human being is first and foremost not
an isolated subject, cut off from a realm of objects that it wishes to know
about. We are rather beings who are always already in the world, outside and
alongside a world from which, for the most part, we do not distinguish
ourselves” Simon Critchley
Martin Heidegger
says that the nature of the world can be best captured by art. Art is an expression of the Entity of “Experiencing - the – World”.
“It is the work
that first lets the artist emerge as a master of his art. The artist is the
source of the work. The work is the source of the artist”
I have been reading ‘The Thinking Hand’
Juhani Pallasmaa; craftsmanship, the process of making, the immediacy and
authenticity of the combination of man and materials motivate me. There is a
place for skill, if defined as the will to optimise relationship between
human being, material and process. If I look at craftsmanship in terms of my
partner and his relationship with his work (carpentry), I am always amazed at
the sensitivity of the relationship between his Being and the Being of the
material / wood that he is using, this merging of Being creates a whole new
level or understanding of being for both the wood and the man - Art.
“One needs to
focus simultaneously on the world and on oneself, the external space and one’s
inner mental space. All artworks articulate the boundary between the self and
the world,” J Pallasmaa Pg 19
(If there is a boundary and not just an
overlap between self and world where artwork is created)
I watched the film ‘Being in the world’,
it explores creative mastery, the risks of becoming proficient and the meaning
disclosed to our Being.
“Being in the World is a celebration of human beings,
and our ability, through the mastery of physical, intellectual and creative
skills, to find meaning in the world around us”
Concept
Initially if the
Being of a craftsman is 1 and the Being of the resource or tool is 1 then the
physical mastery can equal 3. If this new transcendental synergy then becomes
the new 1 and I (as the being) is also 1, what is produced form this merging is
a new 3 as the creation of artwork creates an artist.
I experience the spark of creative
process, moment by moment through being there in
somebody else’s synergism and
the spark becomes collective.
To inform this project by using a
phenomenological approach to self expression and learning to
use materials in
response to stimuli, materials as an extension of my body as the carpenter
uses
tools and wood as an extension of his.
“Humans acting at their best respond faster than they
can think”
This could be interpreted as Heidegger’s ‘Ready at
hand’, using a skill that comes as the most appropriate to do the job
Genres
I am inspired by
the work of Anselm Kiefer, he also being a great fan of Heidegger; his use of
Phenomenological expression sparks my own. His use and range of materials is
vital to his mastery. Kiefer’s work is an experiential eruption in response to modern German history,
expressing the enormity of a collective response in the work of just one man.
Gerhart Richter,
fits into many genres, his work can move between genres dependant upon what he
is working with and how he chooses to express his ideas, from conceptual to
abstract to photo realism, his ‘ready at hand’ box of skills appear unlimited.
His fire never burns in the same place twice.
The work of Kevin
Sinnott masters the Being of dynamic relationship and is vital and immediate.
The people within his work are all connected and totally integrated within
their environment. They are Being in the World.
“In the true work
of art, the process of creation by the artist is described by Heidegger as a
drawing up to the light from the well of Being it is the expression of an
impersonal force, which uses the artist to actualise itself” Michael Watts Pg
214
SWOT analysis
Strengths –
A foundation of meaning
within the potential work. Working with a project that inspires me and leads to
work that is not just deeply personal but relevant to a world where people
don’t always feel that they are a part of that world.
Weaknesses –
Tendency to run to far and
too fast with the work rather than take time to fully explore specific areas
fully.
Getting caught up in being
representational and trite with making art.
Opportunities –
Opportunity to explore
phenomenology and to gain greater insight into the synergy of relationships
A chance to explore the greater
depths of technology as a part of the material response to this project i.e.
Blog
Opportunity to raise
something social and political within my work (which will be a first)
Threats –
Choosing a project plan with
too much possibility, must be ready to fully develop one area rather than try
to cover as much as possible.
Giving in to frustration when
I try to ‘think’ my way around a project and then making work that lacks
imagination or originality.
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