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      Suzy Costello 

      sculptor  printmaker
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      Getting to grips with bonsai
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Jun 4
      • 2 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Understanding visible light
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • May 30
      • 1 min
      2022 MFA

      Understanding visible light

      Efforts to understand light as an electromagnetic resonance and what is occurring between the trees and the light as they photosynthesis...
      'Scene hunting' Aotearoa's forests
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • May 24
      • 2 min
      2022 MFA

      '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...
      Socially engaging with others
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • May 24
      • 6 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Studio Visit 2, May 12
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • May 19
      • 4 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Capturing the forest's aroma
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • May 11
      • 3 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Books I am reading
      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,...
      Walking with the possum hunters
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • May 3
      • 1 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Studio Visit 1, April 14
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Apr 14
      • 3 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      From process art to [no] [art] [object]
      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...
      Mind-landscape and Asian influences
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Feb 12
      • 4 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Developing meaningful relations with tangata whenua
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Feb 12
      • 2 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Materiality and Asian influences
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Feb 8
      • 5 min
      2022 MFA

      Materiality and Asian influences

      At the critique for our final presentation last year, Simon Morris suggested I read The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate...
      Te Ao Taiao and the bioenergetic landscape
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Feb 7
      • 4 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Why does nature make us feel good?
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Feb 2
      • 4 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Scents of the forest and olfactory art
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Feb 2
      • 4 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      Ecology of East Harbour Regional Park
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Feb 1
      • 8 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      My processes and materials
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Dec 6, 2021
      • 8 min
      2022 MFA

      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...
      MFA Nov-Dec 2021
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Nov 23, 2021
      • 16 min
      2021 MFA

      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...
      MFA 1-21 Nov 2021
      Suzy Costello, workbooks
      • Nov 2, 2021
      • 8 min
      2021 MFA

      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...
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