Definition and etymology rhythm /ˈrɪð(ə)m/ Learn to pronounce noun noun: rhythm; plural noun: rhythms 1. a strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound. “Ruth listened to the rhythm of his breathing” synonyms: pattern, flow, tempo, regular features, recurrent nature “part of the normal rhythm of daily life” the systematic arrangement of musical sounds, principally according to duration and periodical stress. […]
Category: Research
Critical Evaluation for Group Tutorial: Future-Focused
Critical Evaluation (Future-Focused) – text prepared for group tutorial session Thursday 13th June 2019: The MA Summer Show preparation has allowed me to consolidate an idea that was embedded in my work from the outset: the painting plus its video as a single module of installation. I intend to continue this trajectory already having further oil paintings […]
There’s a Poem for That – TEDEd
The below is interesting, connecting with previous post and for correspondences with my own videos soon to be shown at the Summer show. Will post them up when completed – there are 9 of them, There’s a poem for That – the below being one from the TEDEd initiative:
The History of Writing
Being always interested in the origin of things this article caught my attention, prompting me to note down an exhibition I would like to visit this Summer at the British Library. Note to self: Before writing was invented poetry/song was performed, fluid. Then with writing it became fixed, the audience a more remote imagined presence; […]
Technical limitations
Having captured all the images of the paintings in progress, the processing of the hundreds of individual high-resolution image files is even more laborious; each file has to go through numerous edits including in Lightroom, Photoshop, Da Vinci Resolve (for creating the video). Though it was all done meticulously throughout it is impossible to get […]
Poem of the Day
from the Poetry Foundation, who send me a poem a day: The Sun Rising by John Donne also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Donne and by contrast but on the theme of English poets, John Clare I Am! by John Clare
Public Domain Review
A great web resource
Rather wonderful
pre-digital: https://aeon.co/videos/classical-ballet-transforms-into-a-dance-of-the-surreal-in-this-duet-from-1968
More context
The ancient (Saxon origin) historic church opposite as seen through the doorway of our former-chapel studio seen from the opposite direction in this recent post. A peaceful, contemplative and deeply appreciated environment, for sure – though it did once feel like a place of exile, a recollection which has resonance with the poem by Mahmoud […]
Poetry
Who Am I, Without Exile? by Mahmoud Darwish about Mahmoud Darwish