the process of making
a painter's relationship with
returning to
making another
how do we make meaning in a world of excess, accumulation, toomuchness, (AI), attention capital, semiocapital, too-late-stage capitalism, radical environmental change?
you might start
with a single letter,
a word. an existing image.
mantras
(repetition)
lessons
(return)
frameworks
(steps)
touchpoints
(revisions)
self < -- > collective
thinking about making
– thinking more about "thesis" than the work
– thinking about (MFAs, higher education) here and now
– making more, adding projects to oversaturated landscape
– crushing pressure of
1. financial
2. time
3. distance
investments
start failing
(a summary of failures), or
Lectures (Learning) from the Institute of Failure
making decisions about
(it's no longer blank)
re-spond
re-vise
re-turn to the start
what should
people will say: you must title
be? what should a canvas do?
should have good hierachy.
must start wide
and get ever so small and expand out from there.
Learning about Feedback:
both POSITIVE + NEGATIVE
can cloud your
INTUITION + SELF-EVALUATION
Therefore:
must be conscious of
TIMING + FRAMING
when soliciting feedback
developing a relationship with
return to people: collaborations
(attention) over time
a conversation with
building up the layers of
together
A book of diagrams and essays built around the
following frameworks: language = the infra-
structure of reality, expandability, fractals, and
return. Examine attention across scales (self—
collective, individual letter—book), this graduate
practice book tries to both in its form and in the
poetry/essays challenge/describe existing logics
of capital, use, immediacy, and growth as well as
to propose/embody new logics of sustained
attention and care over time.
commitment (Return)
"I am going to poop out a book"
(deciding to decide)
(discipline)
(flexible) frameworks
how can we allow for opacity/multiplicity/the existence of difference through language (as the infrastructure of communications, relations between things)?
how can (graphic design) (the form of language) be integral to knowledge production/epistemology?
through painting,
you learn a lot more about
(and have new, more complex questions about it)
the value of returning to
and continuing to work
with it
the value of attention to
over time
how relationships
form through attention, return
(the pattern of the eyes, going back
and back to a focal point)
in a soup (of too much) (achievement society)
still wondering, where do narrative, fragmentation, repetition fit in? expansion, reduction...
thinking about: attention, the syllabus, the essay, (image-language), relations, reciprocity?
immediacy, capital, environmental change (memory and grief)
books, technology, information dissemination
but also going beyond language...