I am currently enrolled in an open research course with my thesis advisor, Tom Ockerse. I am hoping to use this opportunity to expand on my thesis thinking and work in my thesis studio. The following is an excerpt from my Open Re/Search Proposal, which outline my problem statement, and expanded description.
Problem Statement: I would like to explore the creation of forms through the study of patterning and collection. Implementing chance operations and using graphic design systems as organizing structures will also be a major component of this exploration. A study of a collection of parts and their relationship to one another will allow for the development of a form. Letting the process dictate the form is the ultimate goal.
Expanded Description: While trying to put into words the course of study I would like to approach, I found it difficult to fully articulate my ideas. I began to answer six questions...What, Why, Who, Where, When and How this study should/what, this study should accomplish.
What: The body of work and the components of the study are the object. The “body” will communicate the method and reveal a pattern process. A pattern discovery.
Why: The communication is a dialogue of sorts. A discussion about method in the realm of the study of graphic design systems and the implementation of chance operation, into those systems.
Who: The communication of these processes will be to reveal, inform and unveil ideas through the creation and collection.
Where: This takes place during a year of free study. “Getting out of the way” of the ideas and the work will be a key factor in discovery. The “where” will come from the study and collection.
When: There will be moments throughout the process that reveal themselves. The study will live as long as there is contribution.
How: By experimentation, by exploration and by completion of weekly/bi weekly studies. The form will reveal itself through the progression of experimentation.
Giving the study a specific form or program will not necessarily be beneficial. The form will come from the collected study.
Through a series of smaller studies and experiments I am hoping to discover a pattern. Not necessarily a pattern in the sense of a physical pattern, but a pattern in the sense of creation and progression of form. I hope to use chance operations in the collection of the source material and create smaller expressions which will explain or express in order to reveal form.
I hope to find the ideas and relationships which will define the work, and find pattern through discovery. I hope to create a collection which expresses a greater idea, not just one particular program.
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