We had a video tutorial.

Overall comments

Don’t feel like you have to resolve your practice as this can come in the next two units. 

It’s good to see that you are mapping the experiments through your documentation. This shows a good knowledge of your progress. 

You have a variety of explorations going on, especially with reactionary sketches and drawings so there is a visual mapping. 

Words that resonate with your practice and contextual framing are ‘emotional landscape/ repairing and healing/ love and hate of the floods, water and river.

The photograph of you in the water is ambitious and good to see some ‘dare’ and risk taking. Perhaps think about more immersion of yourself in the water. Take more photos/videos of you collaborating with the land/water, beauty and unease. 

Janine Antoni involves herself with her landscapes. 

Written element- edit and write down key words which can frame your main concerns. 

Read the intentions behind Emma Stibbon’s practice and Olafur Ellison ‘Ice Watch’. 

Also,  The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change—available through the OU Library. Chapter 4, Describing the Indescribable: Art and the Climate Crisis 1 by Lucy R. Lippard

‘The Story of Art without Men’ Katy Hessel.

• Send a draft of the written element. It’s good to see that you have laid down your thoughts. This now needs to be backed up with evidence, academic research and a contextual framework. 
• Keep experimenting!
• Recommended reading (see above)

My notes.

I am feeling very comfortable with my practice at the moment, in so much as I’m enjoying the work, the experiments and am pleased with the results, working and collaborating with the open water. The next project is a peer review, and it is my intention to use found objects from the waters edge and mix these with water colour paints.

However, I am feeling very behind with the Critical Review, as I have made lots of notes, but not really honed in with the subject matter. We talked about this and my tutor has given me some suggestions on how to move forward using my personal knowledge of the flooding as well as articles, facts and figures, to support this work.

My thoughts are to have a push over the next two weeks and concentrate on project 8, then take slighter longer with project 9 and use that time to write a draft of the review, which will still give me two more passes before completion.

I will update as I move forward.