Wk 3 // notes: interview with Ursula le Guin
After seeing Teresa Peters' work at the Portage Ceramic Awards this week and her referencing Ursula le Guin, I wanted to look into her...
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Mar 6, 2023
Wk 3 // studio work & planning
General summary (will upload images of experiments later this week once collated into individual posts): Am still unsure of what I want...
Mar 5, 2023
Wk 2 // Podcast notes
Art Not Science Podcast: Carl Mika - "Wā and its countercolonial possibilities: Implications for the human self" all things are in a...
Mar 3, 2023
Wk 2 // writing, water, oneness, mesh...
Mum once told us When I die, I want to be scattered in the Rangitātā where the current is strong There, she can sprint amongst the rapids...
Mar 2, 2023
Wk 2 // colour play and imaginary landscapes
Colour theory has never been a strong suit of mine, but recently I've been thinking how colour is used as a semiotic device, and how...
Mar 1, 2023
Wk 2 // A small revisit to lichens and mapping (material processes)
Lichens as pigment makers This past week I've been thinking about ways of letting the land and the entities in it collaborate in their...
Feb 23, 2023
Wk 1 // studio thoughts
In honesty, it's been a bit of a rough week. I think on top of my general anxieties and creative block I've been feeling over the past...
Feb 19, 2023
Wk 1 // Hannah Stark: The Cultural Politics of Mourning in the Era of Mass Extinction
Notes from article: "...as soon as the question “What is lost?” is posed, it invariably slips into the question “What remains?” That is,...
Feb 19, 2023
Wk 1 // thinking about rocks - interesting documentaries & diary notes
In an effort to be a bit more mindful of my media consumption (and to practice my cursive - sorry!) I've been trying to keep a diary...
Feb 19, 2023
Wk 1 // notes - recent exhibitions and interviews
I'm trying to get back into the habit of making small blog posts on the things that I engage with, even if they are small or fleeting, as...
Feb 15, 2023
MFA // Seminar Week Recap
What a wild start to the year! Seminar week was full on, but such a great experience :) Am looking forward to the next one already. I...
Feb 14, 2023
MFA Wk 0 // Research Projection Exercise
Research projection 1 // What is the core conceptual and critical area in which you are working? We start with the most the most...
Dec 4, 2022
Final Installations // Whitecliffe MFA & BFA(Hons) Graduation Exhibition 2022
Script for On the horizon, just above the waves (2022) Approximately 90 million kilometres from Earth, 5 minutes and 2.5 seconds in light...
Nov 26, 2022
The end of the BFA(Hons) year // so long, and thanks for all the (cray)fish
To Noel, thank you for holding space for my studio anxieties and thought processes. I am grateful to have gotten to work with you and...
Nov 16, 2022
S2 Wk16 - ARTEMIS I
They did it!!! (....but also, the combination of humanity's next adventure into deep space travel and exploration coupled with technical...
Nov 15, 2022
S2 Wk16 - EOY installation plans and finalisations
What I've been up to this week: Frame making - Oleg is currently assembling the frame; once it's made I will secure the paper to it with...
Nov 10, 2022
S2 Wk15 - EOY drafts + installation planning
EOY Draft - Version 1 Technical info: video is 6:20 long and 1920 x 1080 (this matches the projector specs) For the video component, I...
Nov 9, 2022
S2 Wk15? - NZGeo: "The Microscopic World of Lichens" by Derek Grzelewski
This is an article I found from NZGeo a couple of months ago that I keep coming back to :) it's worth a read in full, but below are some...
Nov 8, 2022
S2 Wk 15 - Research Summary
Posting for documentation :) Below is a copy of the file
Nov 8, 2022
S2 Wk15? - individual point cloud video files
(TBA to as they are rendered) Last week I unfortunately lost some of my work in Blender; some of it has been remade but am still working...
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