The Make

So today is all about get it done.

A2 tracing paper pieces. 

Draw, trace, stitch, cut out.

Be governed by happenstance ('biological accidents')

Let the materials dictate. Be restricted by time. 

This will be the transformative object. "Bollas sees the creation of meaning as emanating from the use of evocative objects..."  "...object as process: a site of ego integration and burgeoning subjectivity which generates an experience of transformation "(Marks 2016). What Marks alludes to is, we ourselves impose meaning on objects in order to understand the world. Marks suggests Bollas's meaning here, in relation to the object, is that it can be anything from a job, to an experience, a relationship to a physical object. I will use this handmade object, embued with intention, as a vehicle to explore the transformative effect on me as the artist, destroying a piece of my own work. Work that has involved my time and labour, which exists and then no longer exists. It will allow me to interrogate the process of my practice.

Enlargements of text, mutated text, placing under the tracing paper, in multiples so words cross over, only tracing certain parts of words. Tracing in black and white pen. Also tracing over my  original hand drawn lines from highlighting the initial words that stood out. Those tracings become the cut outs, cutting out what stood out. Utilise the original text 'vile, smug ideologies' but incorporate a more upbeat manifesto to counteract...(Thanks Martin Speed tutorials).