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Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Jun 4
- 2 min
Getting to grips with bonsai
contained by high walls a small forest grows within its breathe our heartbeat A large part of my thesis is the relationship between the...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- May 30
- 1 min
Understanding visible light
Efforts to understand light as an electromagnetic resonance and what is occurring between the trees and the light as they photosynthesis...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- May 24
- 2 min
'Scene hunting' Aotearoa's forests
My exegesis will need to discuss the influence of European historical landscape painting from the 17th and 18th century, where artists...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- May 24
- 6 min
Socially engaging with others
Since understanding that my thesis needs to expand beyond my own embodiment with the forest and include others embodiment, the process...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- May 19
- 4 min
Studio Visit 2, May 12
Met with Simon and Sonya for second studio visit where I presented 3 preparatory works - scents collected for the forest project, an...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- May 11
- 3 min
Capturing the forest's aroma
Playing with my twin to discover wood aromas in her perfumers' organ. The wood smells of Japanese and European pines, manuka and others...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- May 9
- 12 min
Books I am reading
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Kimmerer Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. First edition, Milkweed Editions, 2013. EBSCOhost,...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- May 3
- 1 min
Walking with the possum hunters
5th May Walking the possum line in Gollan Valley with the legendary possum hunters Phil Benge, Colin Dalziel, Alan Benge and Michael...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Apr 14
- 3 min
Studio Visit 1, April 14
First studio visit Thursday 14th April 2022 in T24b with Simon Morris and Sonya Withers. This was the first time I had seen the scroll...
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Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Mar 23
- 4 min
From process art to [no] [art] [object]
In 2018 I was a student at The Learning Connexion in Taita. The Advanced Diploma I studied focused on the Process Art movement that...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Feb 12
- 4 min
Mind-landscape and Asian influences
Hakone; Kosui. Utagawa Hiroshige 1833–34 (source) Art attuned to the unknowable There's a wonderful collection of essays in The Third...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Feb 12
- 2 min
Developing meaningful relations with tangata whenua
Tiaki taiao (red) by Ani-Oriwia Adds (source). What does it mean to respect Kaitiakitanga, the active stewardship and guardianship of the...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Feb 8
- 5 min
Materiality and Asian influences
At the critique for our final presentation last year, Simon Morris suggested I read The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Feb 7
- 4 min
Te Ao Taiao and the bioenergetic landscape
Te Hono ki Muka - 3. John Bevan Ford, 1986 (source) Te Ao Taiao - the environment that contains and surrounds us As I spend time drawing...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Feb 2
- 4 min
Why does nature make us feel good?
Why is it I always feel better after walking through the forest? I feel energised and purposeful while also more relaxed and less...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Feb 2
- 4 min
Scents of the forest and olfactory art
Gallery exhibitions offering olfactory experiences are becoming more popular and I would like to include the scents of the forest in my...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Feb 1
- 8 min
Ecology of East Harbour Regional Park
Plants growing in East Harbour Regional Park, 1984 (source) [The forest is now 40 years older so many gorse scrub areas have given way to...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Dec 6, 2021
- 8 min
My processes and materials
I wish to feel the entirety of this forest living across the road from me, a forest bound by human settlements and the eastern edge of...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Nov 23, 2021
- 16 min
MFA Nov-Dec 2021
Drawing EHRF; Trees as Sentient Beings; Vic Earth Science; Flax Paper making 1 DRAWING EHRF I am continuing drawing even though the...
Suzy Costello, workbooks
- Nov 2, 2021
- 8 min
MFA 1-21 Nov 2021
Researching the history of East Harbour Regional Park; Drawing the East Harbour Regional Park forest; Eco Artist Tosca Teran; and...