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Reflection on: Online with Jeena 29/04/20
Part 1: I have been interested in the current eco-crisis which is largely an effect of capitalist systems and how my practice might best...
Stocktake
What have you got? A family who are supporting me. A bed- very handy. God- heard He’s handy too. A working laptop! I saved up for this!!...
Key Notes: Hyundai Country Calendar – Season 2020, Episode 7
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/country-calendar/episodes/s2020-e7?fbclid=IwAR0qAUSkNPB-Vzy_9NDfiA2Z2FZvJSXBDMKWTK_FIgyVBq34-_LJvhjfnis The...
Attempt 2 Research Question
How can painting figure into the mesh of (my) Small everyday experiences within the big (things/understandings/ politics/ life/ ...
Key Notes: Vandana Shiva | Ecofeminism and the decolonization of women, nature and the future
The Self Organised Earth. The earth maintains her climate, temperature and created the conditions for life to evolve. For our species to...
Key Notes: Vandana Shiva - Solutions to the food and ecological crisis facing us today.
Nature is not out there, We are part of it. Protecting Nature is not a luxury. Environmentalism is a problem because it interferes with...
EDIT Raqs Media Collective : Pacific Parables
https://issuu.com/raqsmediacollective/docs/seepage
Gavin McGrath on: Wendell Berry on the Capitalist value of "Limitless"
The Catastrophe That Comes From “Limitlessness” 10 November, 2008 Oasis came out with the song that exclaimed, “I’m free to be whatever I...
Key Notes: Wendell Berry Interveiw 17/02/2015
What are your biggest objections to conservatism? WB: Often, as with Jayber, a political labeling never occurs to me. But often too...
Key Notes- Vandana Shiva: Decolonize the Mind
The way farms were built were akin to forests. Permanent systems. In Sir Albert Howard Learnt from pests and peasants. Farming in the...
Reflection: Gardening as a method + Lockdown thoughts + Rentals
With the "all go" on lockdown for four weeks, I had very mixed feelings about the situation. One of the most substantial feelings was...
Key Notes- Damaris Zehner: Permaculture as Philosophy
https://www.damariszehner.com/post/permaculture-as-philosophy Notes: Permaculture, I’ve learned, is not only a method but a philosophy,...
Thoughts on: Red Plastic Chair Painting
The above images are the last and only images I took in studio and will be replaced with considerably better lighting and a slicker...
Thoughts on: The Yellow Painting
*These images are the only images I had taken before Lockdown, so please excuse the hasty images. The yellow painting was quite an...
Reflections: As of 20/3/2020 - Everything on my mind
By painting subject matter that are the closest to me, be it family, friends, motifs of my childhood to extending my subject matter that...
Research Question - Attempt 1
How might paint (be used to) "figure" into the interconnectivity of my small everyday and past experiences in relation to...
Method and Methodology and Keywords
Interconnectivity and relationship- Parts of a whole/ Small things and big things/ within Systems METHODOLOGY (ME) METHOD (m) (ME) Mesh/...