Lolly Lincoln

Research Design      Lolly Lincoln December, 2010

“Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don’t really care for music, do you?
It goes like this
The fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah”
-Leonard Cohen

Part One:
Art Practice as Research & Portraits of Chimelu
Goals:
Create an on-going series of un-juried images of Chimelu Izzuka.  The earliest images are from 2009 and continue through the present.  They are all taken at the Fletcher-Maynard Academy, a Cambridge public school, where Chimelu is a student and I am one of his teachers.  The photographs are unposed action pictures, and are often taken in rapid succession.  Chimelu is always the subject, although occasionally he is the artist as well, when he expresses an interest in my cameras.  One way images are made is with a small digital camera, which then produces prints from ink jet printers, which can then be transferred to objects.  Single lens reflex cameras will also be used, both 35mm and 2 1/4”, which will produce black and white negatives.  With these negatives images can be projected onto canvases and other objects that are painted with liquid photographic emulsion.  Images are layered on top of each other and other layers of textured found materials.  Paintings will also be made using color with acrylics to create portraits of Chimelu.  Acrylics/color may be used in conjunction with photography, resulting in a series of mixed media photograph/portraits whose subject is Chimelu.

Through the images of this student I intend to divine for myself and for others who he is as a person, and as a person with autism.  I expect to portray my relationship to him as his teacher.  I hope to reveal his relationship to art class and art making.  I intend to use the passage of time and succession of images to show changes over time.  Also, I examine my role as examiner and the effect that inevitably has on the subject.  This is art practice as research.

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Bibliography

Research Design:

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Autism:

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Art:

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