Mia/Project proposal

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Project proposal DRAFT 1 (12.9. 2019)

1. What do you want to make? And how?

  • I wish to continue with the practice between photography and gestural mark making (including both 'Trace' and 'Drawing Camera')
  • concretely: a photographic series (pictures that merge photographs and drawings), possibly an installation
  • to continue 'Trace' – photographic series, a typology (of marks of use, deliberate or accidental traces in public space). HOW: By making more books and explore other means of presentation (wallpaper, flooring etc.)
  • to further develop the 'Drawing Camera'. HOW: By making another camera (to explore possibilities of movement integrated in the pictures); taking more pictures; trying out different means of materialisation of the photographs (on support such as textile, plexiglass, paper etc.)
  • Photograms and camera-less pictures. HOW: Create in the darkroom.


3. What is your timetable?

  • September&October: printing, materialising the pictures I made in the past trimester
  • October&November: 2 exhibitions (to try out a couple of ideas, as prototypes)
  • October: making another camera
  • December: darkroom experimentation
  • Then … I don’t know yet


4. Why do you want to make it? TO Develop specific practice between drawing (gestural mark-making) and photography WHAT FOR Because I am attracted to the fundaments of both means of image-making and I think they can be tightly related PUROPSE OF MY IMAGES, WHAT DO I WANT TO CONVEY


5. Who can help you and how?

  • Tutors: analyzing, bringing another view on what the work means
  • Fellow students: same
  • Sonia as an experienced photographer, also interested in formal and inherent qualities of the photographic medium: by sharing the research (group readings), *practical experiences and skills (help with printing in the darkroom)
  • Mathijs (guest teacher for DIY camera workshop): building another camera
  • Teachers of the photography workshop (Menno and Jeroen): practical and technical matters (actual printing, building the camera etc.)


6. Relation to previous practice

  • Previous practice based in drawing, painting, printmaking
  • Current practice means bridging these with photography
  • All share the basic concepts such as: a mark, an image, an index, a print, a gesture, surface and layering


7. Relation to a larger context

?eg: Claude Blo Ricci, Tacita Dean, Pierre Cordier, Nadezda Nikolova-Kratzer, Juliana Borinski, Peter Rauch…

8. References