KARYN EASTON
Jun 23
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Zoom Session 30

End of Year 1 – Really? I’m sure I’m not alone in thinking that this year has completely whizzed by! It hardly seems like yesterday that I was actually applying to join the course.  Sadly I had to miss the last session because of work commitments.  However, by visiting the course YouTube playlist, I managed to catch up on the last session which was a writing workshop with Laura Robertson.  As usual I have included a selection of slides for future reference. Throughout the session we had to perform a short series of writing tasks.  The first was a seemingly simple task of describing a shoe.  My thoughts were as follows: An item of footwear.  It can be made from a variety of materials.  It normally covers a foot or usually one shoe on each foot.  It might cover all of the foot or it may leave some of the foot exposed.  It can also come in a variety of colours. Laura then went on to read a few passages from a book listed in the slides below.  These passages demonstrated just how much detail could be found in the description of a shoe.  This was a great exercise in […]
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Jun 09
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Zoom Session 29

The Penultimate session for this Academic Year – This session was actually quite a poignant session for me, because work pressures will possibly stop me attending the last session of my first year.  Sadly there is no way that I can escape working on Tuesday next week – it’s one of our busiest weeks.  However, I will watch the recording and I still have two tutorials to come.  I honestly cannot believe that  the first year has gone!  Where did it go?  While pondering the swift passage of time I am pleased to blog about the session this week. This week we were asked to think about what success looks like, and more specifically what kind of metaphors and symbols come to mind when thinking about success as an artist.  I felt that success for me was being pleased with pieces of work that I have created.  More specifically success might be fame and fortune.  In our group discussion some even suggested power as a result of fame. Our group chat was interesting as we all had many different ideas.  I joked that I’d like to be given free tickets to Bilderberg, or become an honorary member of the World […]
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May 30
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Zoom Session 28

Making Session with Sukie Sagoo-Reddy – Today we had another making session with Sukie Sagoo Reddy.  This was a really welcome break from writing and I always enjoy Sukie’s workshops as they give a lot of food for thought.  It was interesting that the workshop was very similar to the one we did a few weeks ago (Zoom Session 22), because this gave me the opportunity to see if I had improved at all?  A link to the slides from this workshop and the original  workshop are here.  These always prove useful to refer back to.  As with the first session we uploaded an image that covered the 5 senses.  I couldn’t find one of my own in time so I used one from the internet.  However for the second task I managed to find two images which had a connection.   Little Bee and Floral Pattern I chose the images below because the little bee is one of my favourite images that I have shot and the floral pattern seemed to work with it.  My thinking was flowers and bees.   Moving on from there we looked once again at the theme of chasing shadows.  I think that my […]
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May 05
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Zoom Session 24

Photograph Analysis & Research – Christabel Harley I’m actually filling in this zoom session retrospectively as this is the first opportunity for the last 3 weeks that I’ve been able to blog.  This is one of our busiest times of year at work. Prepping all of the students for their art exams although, very enjoyable and rewarding, is also very stressful and time consuming.  Therefore it’s nice to be able to sit down and finally catch up on events. Christabel’s talk was excellent! I wasn’t sure if I was approaching my research paper properly.  However, when she explained about putting everything into a metaphorical ‘paper bag’, tucked safely away for further use, things started to make sense.  This is pretty much how I’ve been approaching the project up to now, so this validated my methodology. During our session we looked at a particular piece of research.  It was called ‘The Art of Semi Living’ by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr. Looking at this paper was actually really helpful on two counts.  Firstly, we were tasked with reading only the first sentence of each paragraph to get a ‘feel’ for the paper.  This isn’t something that I had tried before, so […]
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Feb 28
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Zoom Session 18

Derive, Derive & Thermodynamics – This weeks talk was really interesting and today inspired me to get out of my armchair and go for a wander.  In our session we were discussing the concept of a derive or simply derive.  In our discussion group I expressed my concern that Ai could potentially be robbing us of many jobs in the creative industry.  However during our five minutes of contemplation Bea pointed out that nothing is ever really destroyed.  She had been thinking about Thermodynamics and the idea that actually things just change energy is not destroyed it just changes.   We spoke about how analogue photography had now morphed into a genre in its own right in the wake of the digital revolution. I can honestly say that I felt very uplifted after our conversation.  In fact I was really taken with the whole concept of a derive.  It wasn’t something that I had come across before but it was certainly something that I wanted to try. The very next day I set out on a long walk around town (Brixham in Devon).  During that walk gave me time and space to think and reflect.  It also gave me time […]
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Jan 17
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Zoom Session 12

Steal Like an Artist – For a long time now I have been aware that in the art and design world it is very difficult to find something that is completely new.  There are elements borrowed from one piece of work that may be copied or changed to make a more exciting piece of work.  Even in my own practice it feels like there is ‘nothing new under the sun’.  I find there is nothing more frustrating to think I’ve found a great idea, only to research it and discover that actually I’m way ‘behind the curve’. However in today’s talk this became even more pronounced when we had some examples quoted from artist Austin Kleon’s book titled: ‘Steal like and Artist’.  Kleon decided to research into his own style of art.  He found that over the centuries there had in fact been not one but three other artists working in a similar way.  These were namely Brian Gysin (1916 – 1986), Tristan Tzara (1896 – 1963) and Caleb Whitefoord (1734 – 1810).  Apparently they had all been doing something similar.  When this is seen across the ages it really does show that nothing at all is ever new.  Indeed […]
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Dec 21
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Zoom Session 10

Programming with Processing 😊 – This has to be one of my favourite sessions so far. I love all of my zoom sessions, but the chance to learn a little programming is always a positive for me. Until today I hadn’t come across the programming environment called ‘Processing’. I downloaded the software onto my computer and I attempted to play around with it a little. This was to familiarise myself with it a before the start of our session. I found the tutorials really informative and I very quickly got the ‘gist’ of it. We also had a guest speaker Matthew Edwards, who came in to give us a demonstration and work with us through some example code. It was a very good pace and pitched perfectly for a total beginner like myself. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the results of my little programs. I also thoroughly enjoyed the group conversation afterwards. Jonathan introduced us to GPT chat. This is an advanced algorithmic program that can write highly intuitive essays from user text prompts. It can also write code. This week I’ve had lots to think about and explore. I have updated my ‘Zentangle’ gallery to reflect all of my little […]
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Dec 21
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Zoom Session 9

Playing Catch-Up – Even though I was only away in London for a few days, I feel there is so much that I need to catch up on! I found zoom session 9 on the playlist and managed to watch it all. Julia Flood, librarian at CSM gave a very informative presentation about the library and it’s services that are available to us. This is something that I want to explore further and I will be documenting this as I begin my research journey.  I really do want to take full advantage of what the library has to offer as I felt Julia’s talk was very inspiring! In the meantime please see below for my weekly ‘Zentangle’ Design.  I felt a little out at sea this week with all of the information about the library.  This is why I chose to produce an image of a boat.  It certainly brought me back down to Earth in terms that I really do need need do properly conducted research. CSM has access to all kinds of wonderful resources that I really need to explore.  I have already started to do some basic keyword searches and I think that help with materials will […]
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Nov 22
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Zoom Session 8

 Much Food for Thought – This week was a real ‘food for thought’ week.  We started our meeting with a presentation from the Post Grad Community Team, who gave a very informative talk about what they they do and the weekly newsletter they create.  I am really interested in a number of the items they spoke about including: a Post Grad Ambassador role and a potential residency.  My heart is saying yes apply, but my head is asking how feasible is a residency when I’m juggling both work and a young teen. Sadly, I don’t think she (the young teen) would like it very much if I disappeared for a few weeks especially during her GCSE year.  But I’m the eternal optimist so I’ll never say never. Before I begin to work through our session today this afternoon, here is today’s Zentangle doodle.  If you would like to see all of these weekly images to date, here is the blog post where I am curating them.   Today’s Zentagle   Imagination This week much of our discussion revolved around ‘imagination’.  In our small group (it was nice to see some familiar faces) we chatted about what curtails imagination for us. […]
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