A Poet not a Logician

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I am a rather ‘logical’ person. My BA is in Mathematics and Philosophy. I have an MSc in Consulting and Coaching for Change from HEC. I have spent over 40 years in business, most of it at General Manager or Board level, where logic prevails. Within that career, I spent 10 years in the realm of ‘Big Data’ – and …

Landscape

mickyates Aesthetics, Aftermath, Art, ContextualResearch, Critical Research Journal, Expressionism, History, Ideas, Impressionism, Insight, Landscape, Photography, PositionsPractice, PPWeek1 11 Comments

I have been studying the materials for Positions and Practices, and was quite taken with the chapter on Territorial Photography by Joel Snyder, in the book Landscape and Power by WJT Mitchell. Landscape is not really the centre of my practice, though I am always attracted to the genre, which probably goes back to my painting days, and studying art in …