Images in 201 were of great importance to 301 - 201's images were transformed to create the new images; the result was works of abstract imaginary spaces.

 

Most relevant research that helped shape 301: 

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• Heterotopia; other spaces: The prefix ‘hetero’ is from Ancient Greek ‘heteros, “other, another, different” and is combined with the Greek ‘morpheme’, “place, other place”. Heterotopia is essentially where things are different. 

This term has the potential to also link with the term  ‘uncanny’ - that goes beyond the ordinary or the normal or something that is strange. The use of the uncanny contains the ability to temporarily suspend senses of reality (in this setting being the everyday seen landscapes) within visual contexts. Adapting this into this body of work I began creating abstract landscapes that challenge the norm and the viewer's senses. The subject (images) is not a single, obviously significant thing but rather a nexus of delicate interrelationships and connections.

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• Book:  “The Edge of Vision: the Rise of Abstraction in Photography by Lyle Rexer - this was a vital resource for me in terms of being able to understand abstract in contemporary photography in a timely manner. 

Lyle Rexer, in his study of abstraction in photography, highlights the fact that the medium has always had a different relationship to abstraction from painting. “Photography is a tension between what is seen and what is understood about that which is seen in an image. No matter how empty an image might seem, or how nothing-like it might appear, through its nuptial relationship to the world, a photograph is always about looking. Rather than mechanisms for looking at or looking through, abstract photographs offer a means for looking with.” - Rexer, 2009, p, 15.

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• Book:  The Artists Mind - A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Creativity, Modern Art and Modern Artists by George Hagman - Marion Milner, writing as Joanna Field (1957,) writes that art is the creation of something new which the artist engages the world and brings into existence not something lost, but something that can be discovered, which is significant and new. “The essential point is the new thing that has been created, the new bit of the external world that has been made significant and real through endowing it with form” - Field, 1957, p, 160

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Colbourne, L., 2020. Utopias and Heterotopias. [online] Lindsey Colbourne (Heledd Wen). Available at: <https://lindseycolbourne.com/utopias-and-heterotopias> [Accessed 3 May 2022].

Field, J., 2010. The Artist's Mind. New York, NY: Routledge, p.160

Hagman, G., 2010. The Artist's Mind. New York, NY: Routledge.

Rexer, L., 2009. The Edge of Vision. New York: Aperture.

Rexer, L., 2009. The Edge of Vision. New York: Aperture, p.15.

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