Phenomenal tense : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Fine Art at Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract

This exegesis attends to the conceptual and practical enquiries adjoining the perceptual and phenomenological concerns of colour, space, moment, language and light. By dwelling in the interface of experience as a spatial, temporal, sensory experience, my creative practice aims to create a dialogue between the intuitive knowing of sensation and the constructions of these qualities as descriptions within the language of watercolour painting and the language of the written word. In this exchange of ideas, my practical methodology moves between using material in two dimensions to render a description, rendering the space as a moment of its own description, and pulling forth the intangible description of language into describing itself within space. Enacting a moment held in reflection by a simple shift in tense. The possibilities of colour, materiality, language, duration, dimension and tense unveil through affordances how these elements might come forth to a viewer to attending to a live exchange of phenomenal occurrences.