transience
I think writing a Thesis is like doing an oil painting. There are many many layers of paint, coat after coat, many of which will disappear under other coats sometimes without a sign of their existence until the painting takes shape. Its demanding, it asks for patience.
This one is my first oil painting. I've started going to art class every Saturday, it helps to keep my Thesis anxieties at bay ;)
posted by the mad perfectionist @ 2:04 AM
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8 Comments:
Thank you for putting up photos of your paintings! Do keep them coming.
What thesis anxities are these that you are having?
Lisa.
Wow, I didn't think I was going to get a comment at all and that too this fast...thanks!!
About the Thesis anxieties, first there was the first year report which they made me rewrite, then there was the viva which finally didn't happen, and now I might be getting a new supervisor in my final year of PhD, and there are always the funding woes...(sigh)...currently I am torn between trying to transcribe all my interviews and writing sections of the Thesis for which I already have material (more sighs;))...anyway, its not all so bad, thanks for asking though :)
By the way, there was something I wanted to run through you...I'm currently working on women's activism in Uttar Pradesh (a North Indian state), sort of trying to build the context for the main part of my thesis by doing a semi-chronological tracing of who are the main actors and how did women's activism emerge in this state, and since I've been told to steer off Bourdieu's concept of the field for some reason, I'm trying to use the metaphor of space, which I have been reading up on in feminist geography readers etc. I'd really like it if at some point you could have a look at the way I'm using it and tell me what you think!
Hope you are managing to keep head above water with all the multiple stresses. Having a new supervisor at this stage is very challenging indeed.
Your work sounds very interesting; would be happy to take a look at it, but can't promise any useful feedback!
Lisa.
hmmm...structures...properties...relations between objects..in transience!!
Very impressive stuff! I thought you'd given up on me, and you become Van Gogh!
Thanks for leaving your comment, anonymous. Would you care to explain more how the painting evokes "structures" and "properties" for you?
David, thanks for the compliment! Give up on you? Not so fast;) hehe...btw, did you get the mask pictures I sent you for your birthday?
consider the analogy between a PhD and oil painting.
consider then, the relation between the structures within the painting yeilding transience and its relation with the objects (books in particular) outside the painting. that points one to yet another notion of transience; and this is, in effect, an analogy.
makes any sense?
Aha. Artistic transience becomes a transistor of trans-science. I see.
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