Research Map

Research map to be discussed at tomorrow's Drawing Reading Group session.

It may not seem significant to the reader, but the exercise of doing mapping m,y research, deciding what is central and what peripheral, drawing out tensions between concepts and relating disciplines to the core matter (which is seduction) has been an incredibly useful exercise. To draw this map, I built on some I had started doing by myself when drafting the research proposal for Chelsea and Central Saint Martins. Revisiting those initial drawings has made me realise how things have moved on since, what fields have dropped out my map, which ones are now closer to the centre.

I am looking forward to tomorrow's session, led by the student at Kingston University. Avis Newman, a member of staff on the MA Drawing is attending, as the was keen to meet the Drawing Research Students to engage them in a curatorial project at the Tate Britain Archives (as part of a Drawing symposium she is organising). In the last Reading Group session, I raised the issue of other people understanding one's map. AR, the Kingston Student, ask me does it matter?. I think I now know what she means...