Beginning to write...
picking a thread and pulling it - unraveling through the written - the thoughts that never were before now.
Beginning to blog...
committing to the published word all these wanderings and wonderings - a long recorded gathering of threads that hopefully will draw the lines to my first exhibition...
This is a Research Journal that will act to record, review, reveal, (and perhaps to) garner responses - to what bear witness to what is this prospective artists' salto mortale - fatal leap - into the unknown.
I was going to write of my intention for this journal-blog - from me - now- here, and found it so difficult... that is until I found myself 're-viewing' the very first visual art diary I ever constructed. I was 11, and the first thing I wrote in it - says all I still want to say.....
"When I am writing - I wish I could draw the picture of what it is [and] ...when I am drawing I.know... I can maybe write this too."
- 11-year-old-me, 1991.
Reminds me of a lovely aside I once read, from the fabulous iconoclast of Australian art theory, Donald Brook: He said something like...
Art exists in the space between what is - can be said, the articulate-able and that which is not yet able to be known or said, the un-articulate-able.
N.B. I absolutely can not remember exactly where I found this particular idea but for a taste of his Brooks' writings see: http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2689163.htm
I do believe that this is where all artistic journeys begin, especially if we understand art in the Foucaultian sense:
- Michel Foucault. (1991) [1984]. 'On the genealogy of ethics: An overview of work in progress'. In Paul Rabinow, (ed.), The Foucault Reader. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, p. 350
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