Visualised and spoken-through: an artist’s reflective comment on his practice

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. The article is a reflection by the author on his visual practice, specifically a form of drawing-based painting. A variety of methods that provide the content of the article, however, suggest that the practice itself is reflective. Several animations of the author maki...

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Main Author: Michael Croft
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spelling th-cmuir.6653943832-540872018-09-04T10:07:34Z Visualised and spoken-through: an artist’s reflective comment on his practice Michael Croft Arts and Humanities © 2015 Taylor & Francis. The article is a reflection by the author on his visual practice, specifically a form of drawing-based painting. A variety of methods that provide the content of the article, however, suggest that the practice itself is reflective. Several animations of the author making a previous visual work have been projected onto a new canvas, and, while tracing the animations, the author has recorded his observations into a voice recorder. The process of reflecting on the content of the voice recordings – excerpts from which are included as pictures – questions the assumed reflexivity of creative visual practice and shifts the emphasis to a more self-consciously reflective premise. While the voice recordings are a diversion, they also offer a creative extension to the practice that is informative of it and the character of the author’s involvement. A psychoanalytical reference provides a distinction between reflexive and reflective, and the article references theory of Bergson as both informative of issues of the visual work and enabling the author a less instinctual and more reflective approach that nonetheless concerns intuition. 2018-09-04T10:07:34Z 2018-09-04T10:07:34Z 2015-01-01 Journal 14701103 14623943 2-s2.0-84944881804 10.1080/14623943.2015.1064381 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=84944881804&origin=inward http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/54087
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Michael Croft
Visualised and spoken-through: an artist’s reflective comment on his practice
description © 2015 Taylor & Francis. The article is a reflection by the author on his visual practice, specifically a form of drawing-based painting. A variety of methods that provide the content of the article, however, suggest that the practice itself is reflective. Several animations of the author making a previous visual work have been projected onto a new canvas, and, while tracing the animations, the author has recorded his observations into a voice recorder. The process of reflecting on the content of the voice recordings – excerpts from which are included as pictures – questions the assumed reflexivity of creative visual practice and shifts the emphasis to a more self-consciously reflective premise. While the voice recordings are a diversion, they also offer a creative extension to the practice that is informative of it and the character of the author’s involvement. A psychoanalytical reference provides a distinction between reflexive and reflective, and the article references theory of Bergson as both informative of issues of the visual work and enabling the author a less instinctual and more reflective approach that nonetheless concerns intuition.
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