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Supervision Meeting 27 (1 July 2022)
A packed agenda for the Supervision Meeting with both my supervisors. Potential External, Internal Examiners and Convenor We discussed the roles of...
Paper Surfaces and Printing Images
I have had an exciting week working on the presentation of my images, rather than capturing the shots. It is all too easy to see practice as...
Notes and Images from a Small Island (Practice 9 Day 10)
Day 10 of Practice Period 9 has been a long time coming. A combination of writing the first draft of my thesis, bad weather and my starting a...
Notes and Images from a Small Island – Ad hoc Practice
The weather is extremely bad in Skye and photographic opportunities are few and far between. The below image was taken just before sunset, and...
Notes and Images from a Small Island (Practice 10 Day 6)
A sunny start to the day and it is a high spring tide. I set up high above the sea to try to capture the beautiful colours and patterns made by a...
Structure of Thesis – Models and Choices
As I continue to write component sections of my thesis the decision about its structure is constantly on my mind! I have considered varying...
Critical Reflection and Review of Practice (Practice Period 10 Week 1)
My thoughts and writing have continued to be dominated by drafting my thesis, and the complexity of the task is causing me to flit from one task to...
Notes and Images from a Small Island (Practice 10 Day 5)
It was a stormy day yesterday, but I glimpsed the only ray of sunshine as I walked Freddie on the beach. There was a moment when the sun shone, the...
Notes and Images from a Small Island (Practice 10 Day 4)
The tide is high and waves collide in a gentle swell of shallow water. The sun is bright overhead. I play some music - Grieg, Chopin, Beethoven,...
Notes and Images from a Small Island (Practice 10 Day 3)
I head out just after high tide. I enjoy the turbulence of a tide on the turn, moving from thundering in to receding gracefully. This time often...
Notes and Images from a Small Island (Practice 10 Day 2)
I walk across the beach thinking about my new work on the edge of the sea. The ever-changing line between land and sea, and the constant rhythm of...
Notes and Images from a Small Island (Practice 10 Day 1)
After a break from my practice, to get a substantial period of writing completed, I return to a different object of Being. As I mentioned in a...
Scouring the Shore
The spring weather on Skye has been very disappointing with almost continuous rain since March, often accompanied by very poor visibility and...
Review of The Sea by Barbara Bosworth
I wrote about my initial impressions of Barbara Bosworth’s book The Sea (2022) a couple of weeks ago, but now I have had time to return to it, and...
Returning to the Reality of the Sea
In Barbara Bosworth’s book The Sea, she includes a passage of prose by Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist widely acknowledged as one of the...
Supervision Meeting 26 (17 May 2022)
Hot on the heels of the face-to-face meeting with my first supervisor last week, I had a meeting with my second supervisor today as she was not able...
The Sea by Barbara Bosworth and The Waves by Virginia Woolf
As many of you will know I am spending much of my time writing draft sections of my thesis and as I wade slowly through contributions to the...
Supervision Meeting 25 (13 May 2022)
I met with my first supervisor today albeit for a short, rather rushed meeting, as I was also attending and presenting at the Arts and Humanities...