ASU2. SNU. I will begin at the beginning! I will begin at the beginning of the beginning of the two modules i need to submit. The two modules are called SNU and ASU2. My ASU2 module is built upon retelling the story of Jesus Christ's journey to the cross, known as the stations of the cross, in my head this also includes the story of his birth, and life, and the people who are part of his life story either because they have a relationship or because they are actors within the story i.e Veronica or Simon.. My SNU module began with a desire to give space in my life to Jon, who i loved, to give the time we spent together record because it was mostly unwitnessed, a between we-two experience, to give it place on the thread that is my life in the hope that acknowledging our time together would let me also acknowledge that his death was not the end of my life. I came to my MA hoping to learn how to tell stories using visual media, most specifically wanting to learn the basics of printmaking, to build rudimentary foundations that would act as a platform for learning after graduating, the year to date has been about picking up these skills from knowing little to nothing. 
In term one in RIPU i looked at objects and their meaning and how objects could hold a story. And in ASU1 i explored the story of Rama and Sita's love affair as described in the Ramayana. I used time in the print studios to begin to meet my materials, exploring papers, mark making on copper (sugar lift, soap ground, photo etching and soft ground), mono printing, inks, colour and layering. I also occupied some space in the 3d workshops working with objects being cast in metal using the burning out method (organic materials that get burned to nothing when the metal is poured into the cast. My aim in my second term was to keep learning about printmaking processes, and to learn how to make moulds of objects to extend my knowledge of casting materials. Also to cast objects in wax to use for metal casting using the same principal as the burning out method described above. I think this is called lost wax casting. I also wanted to find out more about working with the 3d printer in case it should be a tool i might need to use for my master's project. One of the things i had hoped to be able to do was to use this term to learn more about finishing objects cast in metal but unfortunately lockdown prevented that and all the wax objects i have made this term, apart from the origami bowls made at the beginning are unfinished, tho I was able to retrieve most of them from the workshop and saw them off their base cups using a hack saw in the week before the university closed. 
If i am to begin right at the beginning i have to go back to the christmas holidays because that is when the seeds of the stories i was planning to tell were planted. Having handed in, and recovered from the bewildering shock of the Conservatives winning the General Election, in the run up to christmas i began drawing, with a found rainbow pencil and and a brown pencil and an ordinary pencil, scribbles depicting the christmas story and christ on the cross, no more than doodles but allowing my hand to give my thoughts body. At the same time i was looking for a specific image of Jon that i knew i had on a memory stick and found several pictures of him i didn't realise i had, Jon in his garden, and mine, and others. It brought it home to me that i needed to give him physical space in my life. He is/was important to me, the love of life, and yet i had almost no pictures of him except on my computer so i scoured through what I had and picked one to make into a photo etching when term restarted. I also decided to make a companion print from a photo of a strange scene of two statues in a garden in Southwold that i took on my first visit to Southwold after he died. Southwold was one of our places so returning there was an important part of my grief process. 
When the university opened in the new year it wasn't possible to get into our studio spaces as our term1 work was still being marked so i spent time in the library looking for books and films that related to the themes i was exploring and also to printmaking. I discovered the film Hunger by Steve McQueen and watching his interview on the DVD extras about his process led me to leafing through the only book i could find on the library shelves devoted to his work, some of which was interesting, some less so. I also watched Shame which i found less good than Hunger. For me Hunger was a film i needed to watch again, Shame not so much. I also re-watched A Thousand Times Goodnight and Jesus of Montreal. And for the first time Stations of the Cross directed by Dietrich Bruggemann. I became interested in why people become to driven to die for a cause or their faith. I thought about the conflict of interests going on in the middle east especially the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. About land and territory and how Palestine was given to Israel by people who had no right to give it. I thought about how Israel has bitten chunks out of Palestine for decades now and wondered how i would respond to another party acting in that way towards me and what i considered to be mine. I found a book first published in the 1934 "In the Steps of the Master" by H.V Morton about the state of Palestine before WW2. I also looked at poets: R.S Thomas, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Sharon Olds and others. 

Bibliography
Anderson, D E. R S Thomas: Poet of the Cross. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2011/04/20/r-s-thomas-poet-of-the-cross/8661/ (Accessed December 29th 2019)

A Thousand Times Good Night (2014) Directed by Erik Poppe [DVD]. Sweden: Arrow Films
Freidli, I (2012). Steve McQueen Works. Switzerland: Laurenz Foundation.
Hunger () Directed by Steve McQueen [DVD] 

Jesus of Montreal (1989) Directed by Denys Arcand [Film]. Canada: FremantleMedia. 
Lehoczky, E. Cartoonist Lynda Barry: Drawing "Has To Come Out Of Your Body" https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/782921983/cartoonist-lynda-barry-drawing-has-to-come-out-of-your-body?fbclid=IwAR3tS5-0Z4WwSIwK9zcTVEwXeKelQcFmcv8OtaUoJVQdLLvavf3jniyXD48&t=1577682071685 (Accessed December 29th 2019)
Morton, H.V. (1934) In the Steps of the Master. London: Rich & Cowan Ltd.
Stations of the Cross () Directed by Dietrich Bruggemann [DVD]     

     

New post, new bibliography. I know a little bit more about referencing now so it will hopefully be done better and if i start now i'll have books, films etc in it from now to the end of the next unit. I think i'll include ear-worms, or maybe just ear worms i don't mind. And i'm debating over whether to reference as a timeline or in alphabetical order. Harvard is alphabetical but is it more interesting to me to know when and what i was looking at, listening to, reading, watching and so on. I guess it will become clear as i go along what works for me as private referencing which this is really. I know i will still get things wrong but i'm working on a practice makes perfect basis, hopefully as i go along it will become easier to get it right. 

Ahmed, Aisha.S. Why You Should Ignore All the Corona-Virus Inspired Productivity Pressure https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-You-Should-Ignore-All-That/248366?fbclid=IwAR2Qh4XG_rYZoAKM3mvL4NnbqJfB2dnJRYzxRrNzXImF3eVDTElZ1gt9F14 (Accessed: March 30th 2020)  
Anderson, D E. R S Thomas: Poet of the Cross. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/2011/04/20/r-s-thomas-poet-of-the-cross/8661/ (Accessed December 29th 2019)
A Thousand Times Good Night (2014) Directed by Erik Poppe [DVD]. Sweden: Arrow Films
Away with Words (1998) Directed by Christopher Doyle [Film]. Japan: FusionMediaSales.
Behind the Scenes at the Museum: Cancelled! Censorship and self-censorship in the arts (Podcast) https://www.podbean.com/media/player/abb6c-d0a546?from=yiiadmin&download=1&version=1&skin=1&btn-skin=107&auto=0&share=1&fonts=Helvetica&rtl=0&pbad=1&fbclid=IwAR08L11jtnxEZy3lQw_WZUHFCXt3J0eXzRzbhK62ANExnlYW_T1kGtOcPCw (Accessed January 29th 2020)
Brooks, C. (2007) Magical Secrets About Line & Engraving The Step-by-Step Art of Incised Lines. San Francisco: Crown Point Press.
Desire & Sexuality - animating the unconscious (----) 
Eyes, Feet, Road - Hamish Fulton (2006) Directed by .... [DVD] London: Illuminations.
Fanelli, S. (2007) Sometimes I Think, Sometimes I Am. London: Tate Publishing.
Four Horsemen (2012) Directed by Ross Ashcroft [DVD] ... Guerrilla Films
Hentoff, N. (1966) Maurice Sendak's Fantastic Imagination The New Yorker. Available from: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1966/01/22/among-the-wild-things (accessed 16th January 2020)
Freidli, I (2012). Steve McQueen Works. Switzerland: Laurenz Foundation.
Ghost Stories Keep the Roma Alive (2020) The Atlantic Emily Buder https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/607222/blueberry-spirits/ (Accessed February 29th 2020)
Hunger () Directed by Steve McQueen [DVD] 
Jesus of Montreal (1989) Directed by Denys Arcand [Film]. Canada: FremantleMedia. 
Lehoczky, E. Cartoonist Lynda Barry: Drawing "Has To Come Out Of Your Body" https://www.npr.org/2019/11/27/782921983/cartoonist-lynda-barry-drawing-has-to-come-out-of-your-body?fbclid=IwAR3tS5-0Z4WwSIwK9zcTVEwXeKelQcFmcv8OtaUoJVQdLLvavf3jniyXD48&t=1577682071685 (Accessed December 29th 2019)
Lived Experience within the Body (2016) Arts Enterprise at the University of Sheffield. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIUXb3siqFE (Accessed: March 4th 2020)  
Mary Magdalen (2018) .... [DVD]
O'Brien, S. (2018) Europa. London: Picador.
Otherworlds The Art of Nancy Spero & Kiki Smith (2003) Directed by Andrew Hodson, Gary Malkin & Helen Baker [DVD]. Gateshead UK: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.
Pincushion (20--) ... [DVD]
Shapiro, D. (2001) Cy Twombly Coronation of Sesostris. New York: Gagosian Gallery.  
Stations of the Cross () Directed by Dietrich Bruggemann [DVD] 
The Dance of Reality (2013) Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky [Film]. Chile/France: Curzon Artificial Eye ?
The Haunted Forest: Ghost Stories of the Roma. (2020) https://youtu.be/cDaKihBR8S4 (Accessed February 29th 2020). Published by The Atlantic   
The Secret Joy of Falling Angels () Simon Pummell. [DVD]. UK: British Animation Awards
Vagabond (1985) Directed by Agnes Varda [DVD]. France: ?
York, E. (2008) Magical Secrets about Aquatint Spit Bite, Sugar Lift and other Etched Tones Step-by-Step. San Francisco: Crown Point Press.

Because i'm not an academic my day to day life does not call for Harvard referencing but doing my MA does. It's something i find difficult. I think i am more forager than farmer by nature, with all sources of sustenance. But, i figure that while i'm studying it may be sensible to have a bibliography blog entry that i can easily amend and update as i go along. i think if i do that it will make things easier when i come to write essays and will allow me to track my inspiration pathways. Tracking is mapping & i love mapping so even if it feels a bit of chore now, the chances are i'll like it later. So this blog is my referencing for the term to 12/12/19. Forgive it being a bit sketchy to start with, i'm learning how to do it  

Books
Chetwynd, M.G. (2014) Bat Opera. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Hughes, T. (1967) Poetry In The Making. London: Faber & Faber Ltd
Lewis, J and Rigby, P. (ill) (1976) The Chinese Word for Horse. London: Bergstrom & Boyle Books Ltd
Okri, B. (1996) Birds Of Heaven. London: Orion Books Ltd
Sattar, A and Zohra, S (ill) (2018) Ramayana: an illustrated retelling. New York: Yonder
Jacabon, B. (2015) Ay! Mi Amor. France: Benoit Jacques Books
Patel, S. (2010) Ramayana: Divine Loophole. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books LLC
Hegley, J. (2013) New and Selected Potatoes. Hexham, Northumberland: Bloodaxe Books
Journals


Webpages
Swansea University (2019) Research as Art: available at https://www.swansea.ac.uk/research-as-art/ (accessed 25th November 2019)
Firer, S. (2018) "Transubstantiation": available at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/12/transubstantiation (accessed 25th November 2019)
Louisiana Channel (2019) Rachel Cusk: You Can Live the Wrong Life : available at https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/rachel-cusk-you-can-live-the-wrong-life (accessed  3rd October 2019)
Louisiana Channel (2019) Jan Grarup: The Dark Side of the Lens: https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/jan-grarup-the-dark-side-of-the-lens (accessed 29th September 2019)
Louisiana Channel (2019) Erkan Ozgen: When Language is Not Enough: https://channel.louisiana.dk/video/erkan-ozgen-when-language-is-not-enough (accessed 1st October 2019)
Christies (2019) Quentin Blake on doing things a writer can't do: https://www.christies.com/features/Quentin-Blake-a-retrospective-forty-years-of-alternative-versions-9274-3.aspx?lid=1 (accessed 2nd December 2019)
Hass N (2018) Kiki Smith & the Pursuit of Beauty in a Notably Unbeautiful Age: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/t-magazine/kiki-smith-artist-profile.html (accessed 26th November 2019)


Films
Kar-Wai, W (dir) (2008) Ashes of Time redux (DVD) Jet Tone
Zecca, F.  (dir) et al (2012) Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films from Pathe (DVD) BFI 
Trueba, F. (dir) (2012) The Artist and The Model (DVD) Axiom Films
Renoir, J. (dir) (1951) The River (DVD ) London: BFI
Boyle, D (dir) (  ) Slumdog Millionaire (DVD)
Van Sant, G (dir) Elephant (DVD)

Paintings

You Tube
BFI (2010) Temples of India: available at https://youtu.be/VI-l-dn_hFA (accessed September 2019)

BFI (2009) A Road in India: available at https://youtu.be/cOsv6kWGxGI (accessed September 2019)

This is the end of this terms MA units December 11th 2019 ... the bibliography is incomplete and no doubt full of mistakes but i have started to think about how to reference. At the weekend i will start a new bibliography for the next terms units and hopefully i'll make a better fist of it. Just as with my degree it seems like there are skills that will be learned beyond the making art malarkey. It's value for money really, an added extra, learning how to research, learning what i'm interested in, and how to lay markers on my trail that allow me to see how i have got from A to B.