Chelsea Swan

I am here – I exist – Making marks as a diaristic form of expression.

All the disparate threads of thoughts and ideas have been coming together recently as I have come to the realisation that they all relate to or can be see through the lense of keeping a diary. The act of making visual notes which filter and express the lived experience in a coded and personal language. I do believe this unites my practice and is the thing I have been looking for to hold together the research I have been doing. I want to look into and express/ explore this further throughout the course. Although I don’t fully know what it is yet or explain it fully it feels like the right direction to go in as it sparks so many questions and holds together so much of what it is I want in my practice. I is very much a watch this space sort of time but I am excited to see what comes of it.

Things to look further into:

• Samplers – especially those from young girls https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/embroidery-a-history-of-needlework-samplers https://www.mpm.edu/research-collections/history/online-collections-research/schoolgirl-samplers
• Muffs – hidden spaces, personal, touch, expression
• Embroidery while encarcerated
• The link between drawing and embroidery
• drawing as instinctive
• The difference in male and female ‘doodles’ especially in formative years, why girls doodle hearts and flowers and men doodle boxes and creatures.
• Why girls tend to diary and men Journal – what is the difference.
• Read Frida Khalo diary – had it on the shelf for years
• Read women walking – again its been on the shelf for years, make time to read – reading is working!!
• Diary of Dorothy wordsworth – also on the shelf.
• The visual language of girls.
• Why is the diary with doodles and sticker and gem stones uniquely female.
• The private and the hidden, the confessional, the tabboo
• Keeping record – I was here – I existed – In a world where we feel hidden? Inconsequential?
• Why we stop
• Diary etomology
• Semiotic language, associations of symbols
• Where does it intersect with psychogeography, autoethnography, phemonology.
• Instagram, tiktok, tumbler, facebook – wanting to record the female experience, wanting to be seen and accepted publicly as opposed to the diary as the private expression.
• The inner and outer self
• Autoethnography as a diaristic act. https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?isbn=9780854882571&n=100121503&cm_sp=mbc-_-ISBN-_-used
• https://books.google.co.uk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ypCBDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA141&dq=autoethnography+in+art&ots=u8kzExzPbn&sig=GHLbwh1cbVxuB8Cvs03jvj6OOCU#v=onepage&q=autoethnography%20in%20art&f=false
• https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/160940690400300403
• https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429431760-14/artistic-autoethnography-brydie-leigh-bartleet
• https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5029&context=all_theses
• Phemonology as a reserch and note taking process of the lived experince in diary format. https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/623902/1/Elizabeth_Harlow%5B1%5D.pdf
• https://peterahall.com/mapping/Bridger_feminist_psychogeography.pdf
• Art as diaristic
• Psychogeography as diaristic, recording the self in the journey, recording lived experience visually.
• Virginia woolf – society girls
• Sylvia Plath
• My Mad Fat Diary
• How to be a girl
• Raised by wolves
• Simone de beauvoir compare diaries to memoirs
• Louise bougoise
• Tracey Emin
• Raised by wolves
• https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/15430.Women_s_Journals_and_Diaries_in_History
• https://www.hercampus.com/school/st-andrews/journals-vs-diaries-a-historical-recount-of-female-diaries/
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0277539587900963
• https://diaryfile.com/category/author-gender/diaries-by-women/
• https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2017/01/30/dangerous-diarising-nineteenth-century-girls/
• The danger in keeping a diary
• https://www.encyclopedia.com/children/academic-and-educational-journals/childrens-diaries
• read Diary of a Victorian Teenager: The Journal of Octavia Grimston which is on the kindle
• https://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/islandora/object/ui%3Adiaries
• https://www.si.edu/spotlight/american-samplers
• https://fineart-restoration.co.uk/news/conservation-curiosities-embroidery-samplers/
• https://www.google.com/search?q=bobby+barker+diary+drawings&tbm=isch&chips=q:bobby+barker+diary+drawings,online_chips:visual+diary:O0BU0JWwhx0%3D&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjwzdzZpIiEAxV7TaQEHfZfB8UQ4lYoAXoECAEQLg&biw=1440&bih=779
• https://philarchive.org/archive/DECNOO-2
• https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/thesis/Drawing_home_-_a_phenomenological_exploration_of_drawing_in_the_domestic_home_/24549199
• https://philarchive.org/archive/ALSFP
• https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=5131&context=etd
• https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01322767
• self discovery
• diary vs journal