further drawings to reflect on reading and writing. The choice of background reflects the slightly more grounded stage of the illustrated thought process. Three of forty eight images. Idea to make into a stop frame animation.
PhD Archive
Welcome to the Phd Blog
Keeping the blog was an important thread in weaving the research, the drawing practice and community facilitation. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy was awarded by the University of Wales Trinity St. David in 2018.
Abstract
The research considers why aesthetics, the subjective ways in which we
experience and value places, and nature’s agency are not readily included in
decision-making processes. This action research adopts a hopeful, participatory
and auto-ethnographic inquiry into the potential for developing and applying a
relational and environmental walking-art practice to overcome this disconnect; an
approach which attempts to reconnect art and life, cultural and natural systems.
Metaphor is used as a method to reflect upon an emergent art practice. The
research considers Felix Guattari’s ideas of transversality, developing an ethicoaesthetic paradigm as a critical framework, taking into account the work of relevant
practitioners and specifically Grant Kester’s arguments concerning reciprocal
creative labour. The framework is developed through a weaving metaphor and
applied to three community-led land-use change case studies; a canal restoration
project, caring for a community woodland and Landscape Character Assessment.
The weaving metaphor becomes both a process and an art work capable of
revealing and helping to incorporate subjectivity into traditionally objective
decision-making processes. As well as facilitating community-wide dialogue, the
research has, in some cases, lead to action being taken alongside nature’s
agency.
The research evaluates the transformation of the art practice and its impact, which
suggests the positive agency of art as a practical aesthetic in a social and
environmental context.
The thesis can be read here:
https://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/id/eprint/1311/13/Keating%20R%20Landscape%20final.pdf#:~:text=As%20a%20part%20of%20post,with%20people%20in%20the%20Stroud
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Derby
Further development of drawing process for Derby. Walk in le Desert des Agriates.Three of twenty one drawings.
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Thesis
drawing to develop thesis structure. These are three images of twenty with a word added for each idea. The sky provides a suitable backdrop for a fairly airy stage of thinking. The yellow pages (pages jaunes) are a comment on the written word as a being just a part of communications; the phone number enable real conversations. The pages represent the difference between understanding and information.
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River
Drawing over River passing through Ville Di Paraso to coincide with group over water in England – 10.20 local time to coincide with high tide/bore.
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River
Rivers and Mediterranean to cross. Not the only person photographing the Durance and not the only person photographing someone else photographing the river.
