It uses a lot of material from the artist talk I gave at the Beta_space opening last year, as well as additional material.

A pdf of the file will likely be available on the website very soon.

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Direct link : (but requires registering for the research announcements, which is free)

http://www.leonardo-transactions.com/announcements/download/184

Or link via the website:

http://www.leonardo-transactions.com/announcements/

Stole a Derwent blue grey and some paper away

Next thing he’s quiet as a mouse drawing on the floor of the house!

Makin’ his mamma proud! Not once did he put the pencil in his mouth

He was making marks. Like with music, chances are he’ll love art.

1 large cup flour

1 small cup sugar

3 eggs (yummier with larger eggs)

85g melted butter

3 Tablespoons milk

2 Teaspoons baking powder

Beat all the ingredients except for the baking powder together for 3 minutes. Then add the baking powder and beat well. Bake in 2 greased small tins 10-15 mins 160 or 180 if you have a cool oven. Well, I usually use just the one large round tin, about 30mins. Bec sometimes puts Berries or Apples & Pears with Cinnamon sugar on top before baking. For Joe’s birthday cake I did a cream cheese, icing sugar & lemon juice icing that was pretty good.

Y: It is a fallacy and insulting to the art discipline. When emotional, one cannot practice art, cannot think clearly to make informed decisions.Making art to deal with issues is like doing something as a pre-schooler.

Me: I agree. Maybe art therapy is a clouded issue because when you make art you are often in a meditative state, a state of single minded focus (at least I am). But this meditative state is a by-product of making the art, not an objective.

Y: And when emotional you also can’t concentrate to learn new techniques. To help someone with problems using art you have to give them something they already know how to do, because they can’t concentrate.

Me: Maybe art therapy works because learning the process is a distraction, and the distraction itself is what enables some healing to take place. But then this is different to art helping the healing to take place – any distraction will do.

We 3 went to paddington for a browse and then had coffee and biscuit at Sol breads. Joseph slept for a while. Was lovely to chat with Yani.

She said some things that really resonated with me given recent thinking about the role of research in practice, about reflective practice, methodology and how Ernest & Linda see me as working and how that is different to how I see it.

I bought a long, colourful dress too.

1. Dawn had said to her : when you’re learning, you can’t be creative. You can’t create, compose a painting I suppose, while you are learning a technique.

I think this is true, and it is relevant to the role of research during the creative process

2. Later she said, that is why people are creative with your sand work, they are comfortable with the sand & there is nothing to learn there or to slow them down before they can be creative.

Open in art, nature and emergence

ABSTRACT

The interactive art system +-now is modelled on the openness of the natural world. Emergent shapes constitute a novel method for facilitating this openness. With the art system as an example, the relationship between openness and emergence is discussed. Lastly, artist reflections from the creation of the work are presented. These describe the nature of open systems and how they may be created.