Weekly Reflection 9/24

This week for Contemporary Art History we had to read Hal Foster's Return of the Real. I was struck by how well the material overlapped with current goals in my work. Thus far my work has very much fallen in line with the idea of the Screen - insulated from the Real, keeping things rooted in the Imaginary and Symbolic. I want to reverse that, to intentionally confront the Real. I find myself wondering if it's possible to plan such an encounter; is it possible to use Symbolic thinking to create such a visceral experience? How can I create "ruptures" in the Screen of my work? As usual, I don't have any answers for these questions, but I'm looking forward to seeing where experimentation will take me. 

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