The emotional construct of place, the importance of home.
The emotional construct of place, the importance of home.
The emotional construct of place, the importance of home.
I've literally got post-it's stuck on the wall, on the laptop.... I certainly can't change the title now!!! Or could I? Have I actually answered the question I've posed????
ARRRGGHHHH . I feel like I've read the paper so many times I can't remember which bits are in and what I've edited out any more!
I've got a bazillion references and the brief only asks for 10, but I can't take them out or it won't make sense and I can't leave the information in without the reference! Maybe I tried to read too much. The thing is there's rather a lot been written about Cezanne, turns out he's in pretty much every art book I own and as soon as I started searching for stuff about his emotional connection to the land it also turned out he was an emotional kind of guy about it. He wrote all about his feeling to all his friends (when he wasn't falling out with them!). That rather surprised me, I'm not sure people would write that honestly these days. Maybe it's a French thing rather than a century thing??
I meant to read the book of all his letters but I ran out of time and had to start reading about place, I'm glad I stopped where I did with the Cezanne research as it turned out it was almost too easy to find what I wanted on him. Then the interview with Neil went on for twice as long as it was meant to. Editing it all down was a real task! I could write a whole paper on these two artists looking at practise based research or the abstraction of their images over time.
I still can't get over how much they have in common, despite seemingly being so different. I think Neil sounds an awful lot nicer than Cezanne though, and far more sociable! Although he said that he barely travels and from what I can gather Cezanne seemed to only travel by necessity. It's slightly uncanny how similar they are in so many ways! It has been the most fascinating task trying to pare down this wealth of information. I keep thinking I need to write several blog posts of all the bits I left out. I want to spend tomorrow really going through the sentences and making sure it actually reads nicely. I think some tweaking and further editing would be a good idea and tomorrow is my last real day on it aside from the train rides on Friday and Monday morning as the weekend is full. I'm almost loath to let anyone proof read it as I think I'm almost too far gone to change it now! I wish I could've had some feedback from Jonathan at an earlier stage. My paper tutor is very nice but aside from some spelling and grammar and (valuable) encouragement that I'd be able to find the information at the start then agreeing that the structure needed tweaking at the second draft stage and to revisit the title I don't feel like I've had any guidance on whether it was critical enough or the right standard for Masters... I'm feeling rather blind!! I flit between thinking that it doesn't matter as it was the process of the research that mattered not the grade for the paper, but I really, really want to write a good paper!!
Hey ho.... I feel better for having got all that off my chest. Tomorrow is another day! (I can't wait to get printmaking again once the unit is in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)