I think my project focus is clear:
edge – back fence – boundary – laneway – in-between – back space.
At this stage I’m imagining an exhibition/installation, inspired by the project focus that includes:
- Wall work/s
- -3D work/s
- A reader (book or booklet with quotes from other people’s writing)
- A poetry collection (book or booklet of my poetry)
- Possibly a video or slide projection (I’m leaning towards a slide projection)
I also imagine an essay that is an extended and expanded piece of writing using From blog posts to poetry. As well as describing and reflecting on the writing process it would seek to describe and reflect on the intersection between my experience of engaging in photography, art making and poetry making as a connected endeavour.
So if I am to make this happen, what questions will shape my work?
Do I need to return to Alice and what needs doing there?
- What new photographs do I need to successfully complete my project?
- What can I see that I’ve missed on previous visits?
- What more can I discover to make this project as rich as possible?
What writing do I need to do?
- What further writing do I need to do to describe my processes and experience?
- What theoretical/conceptual ideas do I need to write/write further about?
- Develop a clear list of significant influences and write short focused pieces describing the link with the project and my practice.
What reading do I need to do?
To support a deeper understanding and my writing about edge as a space and place:
- Tuan, Space and Place
- Lefevbre, The Production of Space
- Follow up on the idea of unseeing
To reach a deeper understanding about possible connections between poetry and photographyI need to:
- Research photography/poetry books, especially those with an abstract dimension
- Find out more about David Solo
- Engage in research where I get a deeper understanding about photography as poetry (painting a picture with words) and poetry as photography (combining groups of photographs as though creating poetry)
- Understand how new meanings are added in the connection between poetry and photography
- Reveal the physical space, use it as motivator, consider the structure of fences and laneways
How can I become a better photographer?
- Make stronger connections with placewith ideas from Bathes, Image Music Text
- Use a different camera?
- Understanding the project as having a historical value as well as being a personal and emotional response to the laneways
How can I become a better poet?
- keep writing new poems
- seek feedback from others
- consider the sense/feeling I want to express
- keep reading web sites and poetry books
- think about the punctuation of the edge; the hard lines, the indigestible, the truth not masked by overlaid, added organics
- Write about the interactions with documents, people, ideas
- Write about growing in the experience
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