My writing practice inquires into the epistemological implications of the process of making. Written from the vantage point of a maker of art, my PhD dissertation, The Aesthetics of Awareness, opens with being "stopped" by a heart attack, ends with a laugh and identifies recurrent phases of aesthetic acts—the necessity of being stopped; trusting unknowing and self-emptying attentiveness through the act of making; emerging out of this liminal process with a laugh of insight having made something that surprises even the artist.
Published Work
2012 | The Aesthetics of Attentiveness: A Philosophy for Artists and Educators. Doctoral Dissertation, Simon Fraser University. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfred Laurier University Press (forthcoming). | |
2011 | Matter and Spirit. Exhibition essay. |
Academic Papers
2009 | "Inside the Aesthetics of Attentiveness." Simon Fraser University. | |
2009 | "Art-Making As Embodied Aristotelian Epistemology: Materialized, Enacted, Experienced." Simon Fraser University. |