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institution
social political
connections
you
geographical
historical

home
what you do relatives
you
where you live
your history

Richard Serra, "Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself"
[1967-1968]

TO ROLL TO FLOW TO ARRANGE TO MODULATE
TO CREASE TO SWIRL TO REPAIR TO DISTRILL
TO FOLD TO ROTATE TO DISCARD OF WAVES
TO STORE TO SMEAR TO PAIR OF ELECTROMAGNETIC
TO BEND TO FLOOD TO DISTRIBUTE OF INERTIA
TO SHORTEN TO FIRE TO SURFEIT OF IONIZATION
TO TWIST TO IMPRESS TO SCATTER OF POLARIZATION
TO TWINE TO INLAY TO COMPLEMENT OF REFRACTION
TO DAPPLE TO LIFT TO ENCLOSE OF SIMULTANEITY
TO CRUMPLE TO CURVE TO SURROUND OF TIDES
TO SHAVE TO SUPPORT TO ENCIRCLE OF REFLECTION
TO TEAR TO HOOK TO HIDE OF EQUILIBRIUM
TO CHIP TO SUSPEND TO COVER OF SYMMETRY
TO SPLIT TO SPREAD TO WRAP OF FRICTION
TO CUT TO HANG TO DIG TO STRETCH
TO SEVER OF TENSION TO TIE TO BOUNCE
TO DROP OF GRAVITY TO BIND TO ERASE
TO REMOVE OF ENTROPY TO WEAVE TO SPRAY
TO SIMPLIFY OF NATURE TO JOIN TO SYSTEMATIZE
TO DIFFER OF GROUPING TO MATCH TO REFER
TO DISARRANGE OF LAYERING TO LAMINATE TO FORCE
TO SHAVE OF FELTING TO BOND OF MAPPING
TO OPEN TO COLLECT TO HINGE OF LOCATION
TO MIX TO GRASP TO MARK OF CONTEXT
TO SPLASH TO TIGHTEN TO EXPAND OF TIME
TO KNOT TO BUNDLE TO DILUTE TO TALK
TO SPILL TO HEAP TO LIGHT OF PHOTOSYNTHESIS 67-68
TO DROOP TO GATHER TO REVISE OF CARBONIZATION TO CONTINUE

the work of other
students

Inspiration

Water has no shape, but it We can’t tell the shape of
can be any shape. our memory.
Water can melt lots of Our memory will melt in
things. the time.

Strengths: Weaknesses:
•Using a range of experimentation with different •Over-thinking and talking about ideas before
textile processes experimenting
•Successfully linking photography with screen •Abandoning too many ideas before developing
printed images to produce final designs them – a bit ‘butterfly-like’!
•Combining images with contrasts in scale •Over reliance on photography
•Photographic images •Lack of focus sometimes and a tendency to jump
•Starting to communicate emotional quality of place from idea to idea
•Using a wide range of different materials •More breadth of research needed into other
practitioners
•Have conquered fear about photoshop and getting
to grips with using it as a tool

Opportunities: Threats:
•To work much bigger with form and structure ideas •Time management
•To experiment with performance ideas and use K •Becoming over reliant on photoshop – just to be a
and U of drama to communicate ideas to audience bit wary
•To explore other contexts such as fashion/costume •Becoming fixed on one location and limited by this
•To collaborate with other practitioners working in – themes should be transferable
sound and image •Self sabotage through lack of confidence and
anxiety about what is expected of me
•Trying to be someone that I’m not and forgetting
where I am in this process

Bob Brown

“To continue reading at today's speed I
must have a machine. A simple reading
machine which I can carry or move around,
attach to any old electric light plug and
read hundred thousand word novels in ten
minutes if I want to, and I want to.”

p.28. Brown, B. (1930) The Readies.
Roving Eye Press.

reading
place
looking making
you
ideas context
the work of others

There are worse crimes than burning books.
One of them is not reading them.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a
culture. Just get people to stop reading
them.

Ray Bradbury

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