FIELD OF INQUIRY    

Creative Research Journal
Transart PhD Program



I knew little what I was undertaking, and perhaps it was better not to have realized too many difficulties that would bar the way...As it was, I set to work, brave in the strength of ignorance of what was before me.

- Mary Louise McLaughlin, potter (1847-1932)



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7 A 24 A-B PROJECTS SHARD I 

First raku firing at the end of March. Trip to New Brighton to visit Terry and see UK spring into bloom before surgery May 7. First “Shards” session with Karl Burkheimer through A-B Projects. 

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The Rodina, Design Museum London, 2019


30-31 M 24 INTENSIVE

PhD March Session
COMMUNICATION DESIGN AS PERFORMATIVE WORLD-MAKING

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2nd week of March, the 150 with Lulu
15 M 24 JOURNAL

Misogyny and man-ness and misunderstanding, oh my.
With some Mary Poppins for good measure.

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capture/nature (1) summer 2023
28 F 24 JOURNAL

Advisory meeting with Tracey (2). Catch-up on percolations for revised PAF.  Research poetry, arts-based qualitative data-analysis - exciting to apply to Capture \ Nature project.

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18 F 24 JOURNAL

Spore Space Gallery, Ojai
Lamp Show! July 2, 2023
Description of project & reflection.

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05 F 24 JOURNAL

Bed Island Day XXX. “Monster Storm.” Things I’ve made since I got the diagnosis, got the (first) surgery, got home from the mental and physical breakdown which was my holiday trip, and started getting out of bed, or off the chair.

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28 F 24
JOURNAL


SUBJECT:   Advisor meeting / Relating / Research

ADVISOR:  Tracey Bennett 
DATE:  28 F 24 Met with Tracey on Zoom to catch up since our first meeting, which was a while ago, due to all the stuff happening. Jumped right back in, updating on things that have been percolating since we last spoke. I wanted to articulate the new ideas and get Tracey’s feedback on how they apply to my EOD, and to start hopefully shaping them into language and ideas to apply to my Programme Approval Form, which is a bit overdue.

Some notes:

  • Using of a range of materials leans to adaptability to accommodation of different learning styles
  • Kinetic learning
  • Relational ways of being in the world - more than humans \ pushing against the artist as a singular being, a monolith
  • We live in relation with others - collaboration - the magic that occurs during collaboration
  • Building a language around that. Considering how the interviews help to create a language
  • How did the interview go? Reflecting on the interview in terms of “vibing” or communicating.
  • Synthesis - synthesizing knowledge, synthesizing the community
  • Literature review - synthesizing findings from literature review
  • “Alchemizing”
  • Publication - facilitator / collaborators
  • Investigating words as a prompt for writing and exploring ideas

RESEARCH POETRY...
Tracey shared her experience with a recent workshop she helped facilitate with Professor Jillian Hamilton (PhD, PFHEA), Interactive and Visual Design, School of Design, QUT, the Weaving Water residency. She also shared a preparatory document with interview questions, which is really useful.

“Research poetry is an emergent form of arts-based qualitative data analysis that  has (so far) most commonly been applied to research in allied health settings. Research poetry presents the outcomes of interviews in a non-traditional form. (Traditional approaches to presenting interviews usually involve coding, analysis, identifying sentiments, then counting the number of instances of each sentiment. This can result in rather dry accounts with summative statements by the researcher, perhaps illustrated by a representative quote.)  In research poetry, poetic accounts are crafted by weaving together extracts from interview transcripts to create a reflective, evocative account of subjects’/participants’ experiences (Miller, 2018).  In this instance (for the Weaving Water project), we are experimenting with the form of research poetry in an arts project to create a collective, poly vocal reflection on the Weaving Water residency. We are interviewing self-selecting participant volunteers in the residency and asking four questions related to the participants’ situated perspective, practice, and experiences of the residency. A poem will be produced from quotes from the interviews as a form of collective reflection.”
- From  “Research poetry interview script,” Bennett & Hamilton

Residency: composing poetry in response to a situation; facilitated interviews with artists during the workshop - the result will be a piece of poetry
3-4 specific questions around the experience of the residency - asked consistently to the seven people - from the recordings and the transcript she pulls together a poem.

Baseline / follow up data collection

CAPTURE \ NATURE - data analysis
Using this concept of “research poetry,” or arts-based qualitative data analysis, in application to the C\N project. Can begin with the outcome of the first iteration of the project. 

First step is to formulate questions for Stella, Ella, Tracy & Carrie. Evaluate responses.





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