Horse Guard Parade

I've never seen a guard horse in Japan. I don't think we have any....

I visited Horse Guard Parade because I was interested in how they are trained and if they behave different from other horses.

Actually, most of horses in our world are domestic and termed. I've seen some wild horses in United States originally came from Spain about 300 years ago. They were as if be born to cultivate soil for farming. They didn't look like thoroughbreds at all. They had strong legs. Therefore, before I visit Horse Guard Parade, I imagined horses something in between thoroughbred and wild horse. I also imagined the animal lacking emotion simply because they are trained for war. The life with an apparent absence of emotion makes me think always.

Oh, the horse is so gentle...

It seems he prefers girls rather than males...

This horse know how to make audiences happy...(!!)

I found Horse Guard Parade looks beautiful because of the rider, and found horses are enjoying their life --which is very good! A plan a guard horse as my motive was cancelled.

Artists Talk - Fran Cottell

Fran Cottell at APT Studios. Deptford

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I like Fran's earlier installation such as with textile and own house exhibition.
I wanted to know more about why she wanted to do so.

Studio Seminar - Kelly Chorpening

Kelly introduced her current works.
She captured some text and reassembled after cutting and enlarging text images.
She uses text from her favorite books: Meanings and relationship of the favorite books are getting lose throughout the process.

She also practice drawing from the installation. Though opposite method (from painting to installation) seemed to me rather much popular. She tries to keep back and forth - Create space while destroy space.

She need 9 months to complete a project video!

===What I learnt from this lecture================

I thought her approach, painting + animation, is interesting. It will be nice if I create an animation with using different texture shoot different time.
I want try many things but the time as a MA student is limited. I need to select interesting approaches. This artist believes both film and painting have positive side and negative side, and she decided to use both method in her approach to let them compliment each other. How about me? Can I create three dimensional work when I practice painting? It is challenging.

Research Method - Maiko Tustsumi & Michael Schwab

On Research and Practice

• Research into art & design
• Research through art and design
• Research for Art and design

Thinking trough practice.

Exhibiting Research--> inter-disciplinary

The Research Process

• Generates (problem / idea)
• Defines (research questions)
• Finds (research methodology)
• Solves (research out come)

Question

Context

Method

===What I lean from this lecture===

What if it is interesting but it is not art nor design?
What if the concept is interesting but boring as an art?

I thought these two questions are interesting. I hope my painting is interesting as well as art. How to build up concept is very difficult when what I'm going to paint is partly decided. I was told in Japan, talking about own work is the least thing to do. However, in UAL, Fine Art students are required to contribute through research and practice. This is very difficult for me because most of Japanese painting process (include techniques, particular motives, preparation etc.)will be nonsense in other countries.

How to Grind an Ink-Stick "Sumi"

How to Grind an Ink-Stick (or Japanese “Sumi”)



For the best result, I highly recommend you to use an ink-stone for ink-stick grinding. Both ink-stick and stone are available at “SHEPHERDS (formerly FALKINER fine papers)” at Russell Square

Step 1:
Pour a little amount of distilled water onto the ink-stone.


Step 2:
Dip the tip of the ink-stick in the pool on the ink-stone, and grind the ink-stick around the centre of the ink-stone. Please do not leave the stick in the ink pool because it causes expansion, which results in cracks. Repeat this dip & grind procedure to attain the sufficient concentration. This process usually takes 5 ~10 minutes. Transfer the ground liquid to a larger dish (a white coloured dish is best to tell the ink concentration).


Step 3:
Add distilled water little by little to dilute the ground ink to your chosen sumi colour. (The contained gelatine must be bonded enough at Step 2, and you are safe to water it down at this stage.)




===Tips for the Advanced Users===================


• To bring out the best result, water temperature around 24C is recommended.


• Please always lay the ink-stick in level, and dry it after every use. This will prevent ink-stick’s deterioration such as cracking or mildew.


• Often heard that the grind force shouldn’t be too strong. My teacher explained the proper strength to me with a figurative speaking “13 years old girl is the best ink grinder” which is still confusing. The Sumi ground according to the above instruction should be deep in colour and mild in sheen.


• As long as I tried, 2x5cm sized stock can paint at least 9 square meters (in very deep black). An Ink-stone is bit expensive but it last for many years (even 100 years).
Ink Problems?


• If you are ever struggling with an ink-running problem or an ink-removal problem, adding some drops of vinegar may solve the problem. Not for all kind of inks, but it works sometimes.

SEMINAR: JANE MADSEN

In even the most perfect reproduction, one thing is lacking: the here and now of the work of art—its unique existence in a particular place. It is this unique existence—and nothing else—that bears the mark of the history to which the mark has been subject. (Benjamin, W. 2008, p. 21)

Benjamin’s words sound reasonable for me, however, when I see lives—any kind of lives—I just remember all lives are essentially reproduction of forerunners. I may be accused of stretching the Benjamin’s point beyond, since his words are for “the work of art in the age of its technological reproducibility” (Benjamin, W. 2008). But, reproduction seems the basic method to carry on lives in the world and I wonder how much we can be different or how much our arts can be unique in view of ourselves are reproduced lives.

Flat Time House - John Lathan

John Lathan's Visual Demonstration

The Basic (T) Diagram

Duration of Universe. Time base. Time and language's limitation.

The works needed to be provocative as well as break downed elements.

1 second drawing.

===What I learnt from This Lecture===

It is hard to wholly understand a person's vision but sometimes visual instruction helps.

I found John Lathan's DVD played inside of Flat Time House was very interesting -- In the TV screen, John shown us many places inside of Flat Time House: Sometimes, he was sitting in his chair or standing by the side of stair. When I look around the actual room, those furniture are still there but I could see only John is missing. I realized that absence is totally visible.

How do I relate with audiences? -- It concerns to my painting. It should be a cosmology of my own.

Research Method - David Cross

Resason of Image <-- Creation as a proposal Work, resources and human Space, Network(connection), association <-- Contemporary arts. Reality and Illusion Why read the classics? Classics are epicenter. Process --> Record of developing an image.

The Abolition of Work
econimic generation -- transform
Telecommunication -- pyisical problem in commodity, universal

==="1m2 penny" Transforming Materials
--> changed to a Golden Carpet===
1 penny <-- A penny represents the most simple form in economics, value as well as a unit. Lot's of value changed in history so as a value of a penny. What suggest the science occured between 1850 and 1950? Impressionism <-- ProtoType of Avand-gard. Abstract Action painting Attention moment ===What I learnet from David Cross's Reserch Menthod Lecture===
I need to work in the field and create paintings through those actual experiences. The things make people excite is changing through the times.