INSIDE THE FRAME

My interdisciplinary practice has been framed in different ways. My practice as an artist working mostly in the medium of photography, there is an obvious connection to frames. It is through the frame that the observation and capture of images occurs. Then there is the presentation of the images in frames for others to experience them.

“The medium of photography is more often than not a medium of the found image. There is also a long history of manipulating and transforming photographic images. I find myself straddling the fence between these two aesthetic practices as the photographs and photo – based works I create are derived through a kind of dialogue between the found and the constructed. As my primary subject matter is the urban landscape, these landscapes hide and reveal themselves. I can walk down the street one – day and see nothing, two days later I walk down the same street and ten plus images emerge. Some of these images will stand on their own, while others will be transformed either digitally or physically. The transformed images become the constructed images. During the process of constructing these images new concepts or ideas for a new series of images emerge. How I determine what photographs are manipulated and what images remain unchanged becomes an intuitive thing.”
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Working with these frames has required me to frame my creative process so as to better articulate it.
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The schematic found in this series of images is yet another representation of my creative process. The line on the left represents "creative control". On the right hand side of the schematic the bunched up lines represents fear in and of the creative process. The zig zag, straight and curved lines represents the various creative pathways I have taken in the past and possibly in the future. The breaks in these lines represents the points of disruption in the creative process from both internal and external elements.
Part of this articulation was and is about holding onto and even confining those elements of the creative process that enables me to construct new frames. Some of these frames have evolved into frameworks.
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These frameworks are then used in the design and delivery of learning experiences. Many of these learning experiences are then facilitated through the use of images
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“I believe that teaching, facilitation and coaching are as every bit a creative act as making images. In many ways, the ever - evolving creative processes utilized in my practice as a photographer and artist, has also found its way into my practices in education and coaching. Instead of working with found and constructed images however, my practices consists of working with existing theories and methods from various disciplines as well as constructing new programs through the fusion of theories and methods from disparate disciplines. These constructed or fused programs are different from the found and constructed images. The viewers of my images may be fully engaged with my images, or they can just ignore them. How these viewers are impacted by my images is not always known. The learners / clients in the programs I design and / or  facilitate have been, and will continue to be affected at some level through their learning and engagement experience. As a result of this I have to ensure that the learning programs are inclusive and always put the learner / client at the centre, to ensure an optimal learning and engagement experience.”
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