MFA S3 A2

Studio 3
Assignment 2
Combined methodology report and folio of works

This research is an introspective heuristic investigation that uses black and white experimental analogue photography and alternative darkroom processes (henceforth analogue photography) to foster and visually iterate physical and psychological responses (henceforth aesthetic responses) to lived experience.

MFA S3 A1

Studio 3
Assignment 1
Reflective feedback report

Introduction

This introspective heuristic[1] investigation questions how analogue photography[2] can be explored to foster and visually iterate aesthetic responses to lived experience. Informed by theoretical disciplines, including neuroscience and philosophy, the practice-led study aims to (a) exploit analogue photography as a generative or process-based creative practice, where the confluence between artist, materials and process manifest in part or entirely as the artwork, (b) investigate how the interactions between artist, materials and processes may approximate, in real-time, aesthetic responses that lived experience can induce, and (c) push the medium’s boundaries to create unique photographic works of art that reflect and emanate metaphors of my existence.