Analogies
I was revising biology as it was something I neglected during the term. I was concentrating on physics and chemistry because I historically struggled with these more. There was an analogy I thought of that made me remember the process of how proteins are synthesised and transported outside the cell. I find that I…
Reflection
I’m not having the best time psychologically, because I had my physics mini mock yesterday, and I don’t think I did a good enough job. The experiment of making ethyl ethanoate and testing its boiling point was intense too. I would have equated the start of this week to the US variant of ‘mid-terms week’…
Feral feeling
I feel a bit feral, because of all the calculations and formulae I have to do for each unit. It’s a lot to unpack in a short space of time, that I worry I’ll get it mixed up with each other. I’m looking forward to half term, but treat it as reading week, because I’ll…
Falsifiability
The electrician fixed my immersion heater switch this morning. It started overheating on Saturday and I didn’t want to pay for an out-of-hours electrician, so I didn’t have hot water until today. It happened because the construction company used cheaper switches that had a lower amp rating than the immersion heater. This is why people…
Refining goals
I found my A level human biology notes from sixth form. I used to have neat handwriting, but as I progressed through tertiary education, it became very untidy. Here’s a hypothesis, if the speed of writing increases, then the handwriting becomes messier. Maybe the formula for that would be: Speed of writing = messiness…
Distilled substances
I re-added the work I’ve done for MA Fine Art onto the website, which helped me see how it fits in with my other work. The work angers me, possibly because of the association with the pandemic, and how our cohort got shortchanged. We still had to pay full tuition fee, even though we had…
British Art Show 10: a chorus of strangers part 1
Si grip I felt a bit wanderlust this weekend, because I was self isolating all week. I think I had a cold, although Covid couldn’t have been ruled out. I ordered a Flowflex covid test kit, and an expired one was delivered to me. I used two anyway, because it was the only one I…
Commercial chemistry
I’m becoming sceptical of the experiment I did a few weeks ago, because I don’t think it works properly if the solvents are viscous. Also, I think I did it wrong by placing the indicator first, as it diluted the reading of the result. Acrylic paint is actually complicated. I found out that it’s…
Displacing down to the trough
The lecturers dropped us into the deep end this week with diffraction gratings and chemical functional groups. It’s a lot to take in, a bit like when I had the chemistry lessons about subshells and the Aufbau principle. I definitely felt the jump from when I studied GCSE triple science to A level content. …
Symbolic order & codes
Art I made a few artworks, well strictly writing, I annotated some found images from the internet and called it ‘Enclothed incognito’, a wordplay for enclothed cognition. There’s a cartoonish annotation layered over, which playfully disrupts the seriousness of the historic photographs. I was trying to highlight the unequal power dynamics between male and female,…
Disorganised ramblings about life
I’m going to have subheadings on this post, because I have things to write for several areas of what I’m doing. PhD Proposal I don’t know why I want to base my research on digital art, because it makes more sense if I base it on multidisciplinary art. The reason why I changed it…
Test piece 1: experiment 1
The hypothesis for test piece 1 I’ve done the experiment this morning, and have attached photographs documenting it. From this data, I can form another hypothesis that: There is significant relationship with the different types of paint and alkali pH readings. Null hypothesis: There is no significant relationship with…
Art and theoria
I wrote this on my ‘Test piece 1: hypothesis’ post on the 17th September. Perhaps this affects the pricing of equipment due to social desirability, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Although I think it raises some questions of accessibility and the various associations of status. It could be because art bases status of materials…
Revision and Libraries
I was excited with the arrival of my paint palette for the red cabbage experiment, but the delivery driver didn’t manage to deliver it today. I have an existing one, but it’s got paint stains so it’ll interfere with my experiment. I started making flash cards for unit 1. It made me reflect back on…
Test piece 1: hypothesis
I thought of an idea I want to test out that combines the process of science to make a document or piece that uses a bit of art, or rather could be presented as such, as it’s dependent on the context (outside lab conditions), where I’m presenting it (possibly in an art gallery), and because…
Observation
I was sitting in my car for 40 minutes with the engine on, because my car battery is weak. I have a suspicion that the wiring of the radio is causing the battery to drain, but I’d rather wait to get a new car than fix this current one, as it might cost more than…
Oscillations of re-drafting the research proposal
This is my latest blog out of many failed ones. I think life has given me quite the journey so far. I came from a sixth form which emphasised their STEM ethos, and went onto study BA Fine Art. I have retained my learning from science subjects throughout these years. I then assimilated the art…