(I) of the Text: Visualizing the Research Process
What is said is always in relation to what will never be expressed. At these extreme limits we recognize ourselves. ~Edmond Jabès, 1993
This website is a work in progress: A site/sight of reflexivity on and around my dissertation research process and artmaking practices.
Untitled; mixed media drawing, Jan-April 2007
This image was created in multiple, repeating steps (click image to see full view). A mixed media drawing (graphite, silicone adhesive, ink) was scanned and reworked in photoshop. After printing the drawing in inkjet media on paper, the composition was altered and reworked with additional graphite and ink drawings, then scanned and reworked again in photoshop. The scanning, drawing, reworking, and printing processes were repeated over and over. The repetition functioned to create distance and disconnection from the original image within a structured dialogue. I’ve come to understand the experience as a dialogue among process, time, perception, and representation. The drawing process feels very much like the revision process I experience in writing: both are negotiations with the impossibilities of representation. Both are a repetitive dance around the otherness of self and signification.
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I really like what you are saying about drawing. I am half-way through my life drawing class ot OWU and I am finally achieving a level of accomplishment, but I see what you are saying in a deep way – negotiations with the impossibiliites of representation. …repetitive dance around the otherness of self and signification. plus this …What is said is always in relation to what will never be expressed. At these extreme limits we recognize ourselves. ~Edmond Jabès, 1993… really good. who knew drawing could be so profound. It’s really about finding one’s voice, just like writing. and seemingly a process of self discovery and understanding. Lots of love Michelle