What am I trying to do?

So far, throughout these lectures and tutorials I have been drawing to assist my theoretical understanding of drawing philosophy and what it really means.  I have been concentrating on the understanding of the facts of representation verses expression, abstraction and performance, and also personal embodiment in my work. I have been using a range of processes to produce drawings in relation to these aspects.

Using my previous style of drawing in more  of a representational drawing and stretching my own understanding of my style and pushing my confidence with these new drawings that I would not usually create. I drew different versions of representation and expression  next to each other in comparison in a way that I understood the theory of Collingwood.

Practicing performance and use of materials in an unconventional way is another boundary I have been pushing throughout my drawings. This in terms of using bleach as an unconventional way. Bleach is something that is very hard to control and not always a known outcome occurs. Not drawing with a pencil or pen asks whenever anything else is really a drawing.  Another way I have been adopting this theory is by drawing without looking. This links in with the expression vs. representation aspect. By looking we are only seeing not feeling. Here is were the embodiment relates as I have also been involving myself through my drawings by feeling the materials and using my hands to make the marks and also my feelings, involving my actual mind and thoughts processing this into drawings.

Throughout all this I feel I need to create a hypothesis for my work to build upon –

Are there really certain types of drawing or does it all come under one category?  How can we really define a drawing? How far can this definition be stretched? 

Personal Tutorial

From my personal tutorial and all the lectures I have come up with a few ideas to create a subject base to start on for my dissertation. From all the lectures I took an understanding on the area of ‘the other’. In relation to my course and my general interests in the world and its issues I gathered some links together.

As a textile student it comes naturally to pay attention to textile art by other people from around the world. I love colour and inspirational pieces that relate to my style. My personal love and desire is to travel the world and see it at its best and worst. I have never really had the opportunity to travel the world and have only been able to visit a few places of interest and crave more.

These two aspects combine nicely as I can relate it to ‘the other’. These are the ideas that came to mind:

Why does it seem that other countries and their cultures seem to have more of a cultural identity shown in their textiles and art over britian?

– Is it more important to other countries?

– Are they more proud?

– Is it because its a core skill and quality that country has?

– Is it shown more in LEDCs?

– India compared to Britain