Dear All,
Now that my MA by Research award at YSJ has been confirmed, I am happy to share my thesis titled "On Encountering the Divine in the Act of Drawing" and its supporting documentation, or "The Polyhymniades" and a video.
The main links to said documents are the following:
on my website : https://www.matildetomat.com/ma-by-research-ysj
and video on YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUDD3ieCQtQ
ABSTRACT:
The aim of this research was to define, circumscribe, and contextualise my drawing practice and understand its “encounter with the divine” while looking for a framework that would validate those experiences.
While I noticed how most of the literature always points back to the artefact as the means to understand the method and the artist, I used drawing followed by a self-reflective journaling system to explore the processual part of the practice with regard to these spiritual experiences. Once I realised that both performativity and in-the-zoneness were providing incomplete answers, materiality presented a connection to alchemy which offered a means to reading my drawing experience.
The findings confirmed the spiritual experiences but also indicated that among all the assessable parameters, at the conjuncture between the Artist, the Material, and the Work, there is always something elusive and ineffable.
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Thank you!
Matilde
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