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Writing in Creative Practice:���
Exploring Layers of Meaning���
Taking Collage Seriously: engaging with text through collage
Elizabeth Kealy-Morris
“ Culture…is not so much a set of things – novels, paintings or TV programmes or comics – as a process, a set of practices. Primarily, culture is concerned with the production and exchange of meanings…between the members of a society or group…
(Hall, 1997: 2) ”
“ …Thus culture depends on its participants interpreting meaningfully what is around them, and ‘making sense’ of the world, in broadly similar ways.
(Hall, 1997: 2)
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Representation
“Representation refers to the use of language and images to create meaning about the world around us.
(Sturken & Cartwright, 2001, p.12).
• What was that object?
• How do you know?
• What was the mental process you went through to decide what the object is?
• “Dogs bark but the concept of ‘dog’ cannot bark or bite”
Making Meaning,
Representing Things
Theories of Representation – Reflective Approach:
• language acts like a mirror to reflect the true meaning that already exists in the world.
– Intentional Approach: • The speaker, artist, author imposes her unique
meaning on the world
– Constructionist Approach: • Things don’t mean: we construct meaning using
concepts and signs.
Difference & differentiation
Matthew Carter, Georgia typeface for Microsoft, 1996
Graham Rawle: Woman’s World
Tom Phillips: Humument
Tom Philips, A Humument, p.1, http://gallery.humument.com/gallery#page-1
Tom Phillips: Humument
Tom Philips, A Humument, p.2
Tom Phillips: Humument
Tom Philips, A Humument, p.33
Tom Phillips: Humument
Tom Philips, A Humument, p.53
Tom Phillips: Humument
Tom Philips, A Humument, p.94
Tom Phillips: Humument
Tom Philips, A Humument, p.317
• Create – Read Tharpe’s text about what inspires her, motivates her and
keeps her creativity flowing on the cold dark mornings when her dance troupe is counting on her but she has few ideas.
– Develop a collage / a series of collages working quickly and without second-guessing yourself
– Consider Tom Phillips work with text – choose words from Tharpe’s text that are most meaningful to you – consider “chance” in your visual work – what words leap out at you?
• Cut them out to create an external collage….
• Cover them with paint, ink, other paper....
• Give yourself an hour to read and re-read the text
• Give yourself two hours to create as many collages as you can
– What new meanings emerge?
– Bring these collages to the seminar on Friday
Week 10 Seminars
Tharp, T. (2003) The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life, New York: Simon & Shuster.
Tharp Collages
Tharp Collages
Tharp Collages
Tharp Collages
Tharp Collages
Tharp Collages
Tharp Collages
• Hall, S. (1997) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices, London: Sage, pp.15-29 (excerpt).
• Klanten, R., Hellige, H., Gallagher, H. (2011) Cutting edges: contemporary collage, Berlin:Gestalten.
• Phillips, T. (2012) A Humument: a treated Victorian novel, Fifth Edition, London: Thames & Hudson
– http://www.humument.com/intro.html
• Poynor, R (2005) ”Paste-up Ladies”, http://www.eyemagazine.com/opinion/article/paste-up-ladies-web-only, [retrieved 12 March 2013]
• Rawle, G. (1998) Diary of an Amateur Photographer: a mystery, London: Picador.
Bibliography
• Rawle, G. (2006) Woman’s World: a graphic novel, London: Atlantic Books.
• Rawle, G. (2013) ”Woman’s World”, http://www.grahamrawle.com/womansworld/index.html [retrieved 12 March 2013]
• Sturken, M. & Cartwright, L. (2001) Practices of Looking: an introduction to visual culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Taylor, B. (2004) Collage: the making of modern art, London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
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