FUSTRATION - NEW PHENOMENOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE/UNDERSTANDING - REALISATION
As my first trip to Morecambe beach for this term, I found it difficult to work at first. I went with just my sketchbook and pencils with the aim to practice more sense of touch/tactile drawing in this new environment. I purposefully chose this environment becasue it is an unfamiliar place to me. One of my major realisations from last term was the success of using a more tactile material (the doughy paint) and its purposefulness of relief on the page - I decided that this was more suitable to a sense of touch drawing than flat materials like pencil markings etc. So it was hard today to make drawings using only flat mark making materials.
Relating Deep Listening Practice to my Drawing method
There was definitely a new sense of curiosity with working in this environment which was perfect to the phenomenological approach I am trying to develop. With particular reference to Husserl's notion of the epoché, I attempted to explore this further taking inspiration from Pauline Oliveros' deep listening practice. In my deep listening project for sound (last term's module), I learnt to engage with sounds in a new way by removing my referential listening (as much as possible) and focussing in the activity or behaviour of sounds. This was an approach I thought more about today at the beach but through the use of the sense of touch rather than sound. Removing assumptions or knowledge of what it is I am feeling and drawing. Feeling with a sense of curiosity as if I don't know the object's form.
A different phenomenological experience
After revising the topic in so much more depth for the LICA200 exam, it gave me a further insight into the workings of phenomenology as a method. This occasion, I dedicated much more time to the thinking process before even beginning to put pen to paper.
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Realisation - where to go from here:
Today's drawing experiments have made me realise that I need to work with materials that aren't so flat becasue they are not suitable to the tactile approach of drawing that I am interested in. As a possibility for development: mix paint made from shells/materials found on the beach and use those to make paint from materials in the environment - what would this add to the drawings????