12/09/2024
It’s been a hot minute since I posted anything here and I have been very busy.
Please expect to see an array of various media and areas of art and research.
For this morning. I will share the books I am currently digging through the last few days on jewelry and metal smithing from my library.
This doesn’t include my library on glass beads enamel or other adjacent sources I like to pour through.
While earning my bachelor’s in Art Education and taking many field science courses I had to write highly detailed research papers cited entirely through tediously and exacting.
As a full time art educator I had to cite sources at the end of lesson plans, as well as educational standards, studies to support the methodology I used to facilitate and support my students.
In museums as a docent and educator the understanding of lense and perspective of approach, sources, what aspects, cultural, chemical, social, in preservation and reproduction versus inspiration or context was so key.
So in the SCA all those academic and in depth museum and educator research aspects influence what I do in the way that professional cooking experience has empowered my ability to simply throw something together in a kitchen on a whim. The decades of informed applied practice come from a variety of sources that to document every step of the way would be exhausting.
Sometimes a pet just needs to emote onto the paper and not analyze their choice of how that happens.
There needs to be balance and for decades the SCA has been a place I can rest my uptight side. So is there an informed place of research or exemplar or hypothesis behind projects or pursuits of what I do? Always. I just don’t always stop to write it down when I look at it and it’s obvious to me where it came from.
Maybe this is my college academic background side on what “documentation” is. Artistically I can say professional artists tend to focus more on process and recipe and being able to recreate desired results and understand the why of when problems arise.
I have kept drawings from as far back as high school at the insistence of many art teachers to document growth and progress.
I have almost zero photos of scrolls I made from my youth in Æthelmearc.
But at the least I can share one place I pour through in pursuit of balancing the historic with accessible and feasible for today.
