Week 8

Monday, February 25
traveled to Olympia
3 hours reading and writing seminar pass

Tuesday, February 26
2 hours water surface study and meditation
2 hours online reading interview about poetry/science memoir of orcas, uploading to my blog, reading about the senses
1 hour writing about body and art
1 hour reading and responding to seminar

Wednesday, February 27
.5 hour editing photos
.5 hour reading H.D.’s Trilogy
1 hour looking at seascape painters (see blog)
2 hours writing
2 hours reading Reverie

Thursday, February 28
3 hours taking notes and writing Reverie
1 hour researching art online
2 hours writing poetry
2 hours working on paper
1 hour reading Leaves of Grass out loud

Friday, March 1
2 hours editing photos
1 hour posting to blog
1 hour reading Turner book
2 hours writing

Saturday, March 2
2 hours field water reverie
3 hours working on paper
1 hour posting to blog
1 hour looking at Turner seascapes

Sunday, March 3
6 hours writing, note-taking and figuring out what to do for a paper
1 hour poetry observed recording
1 hour sorting out blog posts
2 hour online research of water art

Total: 46
Total Cumulative: 160

 

Reading List

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Trilogy by H.D.
Turner: the Late Seascapes
Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard
Unoriginal Genius by Marjorie Perloff
Reading on the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
for online resources see luminoussea.tumblr.com 

Week 7

Monday, February 18
1 hour perusing ealphabet site and posting logs
traveled to Corvallis
2 hours writing seminar pass
1 hour writing poetry
(4)

Tuesday, February 19
.5 hour reading sem passes and responding
4 hours walking, observing, photographing and writing about the shore
1 hour reading Poetics of Reverie
(5.5)

Wednesday, February 20
3 hours in the presence of the sea: drawing, painting, listening, watching, shivering (started raining)
2 hour reading Poetics of Reverie and daydreaming
2 hours journaling for reverie, drawing and researching Lila Zemborain and HD online
2 hours composing reverie, posting online, perusing the blog and adding to luminoussea
2 hours editing photos
(11)

Thursday, February 21
.5 hour finishing interview with Zemborain with Leonard Schwartz
.5 hour reading NYT article about salmon geo-magnetic naviation
2 hours drawing
1 hour reading Never
2 hour writing
.5 hour braving the storm to experience waves & wind
1 hour reading The Eyes of the Skin
(7.5)

Friday, February 22
.5 hour looking at waves in a surfer magazine (way too wet to walk to the beach)
1.5 hour researching ocean-architecture and other ocean art to compile to luminoussea
3 hours roughing out my 7-steps and experimenting with other ways to organize a term paper
1 hour ocean visit: low tide sunbreak
(6)

Saturday, February 23
traveled to Portland
2 hours reading Eyes of the Skin (finished)
.5 hour listening to Gertrude Stein
2 hours writing term paper
.5 hour testing out my idea for a term paper idea on a friend
1 hour editing photos and reading Walt Whitman
(6)

Sunday, February 24
1 hour editing photos
1 hour posting to blog
1 hour writing poetry
(3)

Total: 43 hours

Reading List:

The Eyes of the Skin by Juhanni Pallasmaa
mauve sea-orchids by Lila Zemborain,
Never by Jorie Graham
Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
Poetics of Reverie
Reading on the Brain
Unoriginal Genius 

Week 6

Monday, February 11

1 hours re-reading mauve sea-orchids out loud
2 hours skimming and sorting stack of library books into these categories:

• art and creativity (interview with Ran Ortner, Art & Soul, the complete letters of Vincent Van Gogh, book on how we experience art, Roni Horn aka Roni Horn), 
• the body and experience (Secret Teachings of Plants, Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenolgy of Perception, The Eyes of the Skin), 
• water & science (Water & Dreams by Bachelard, Sensitive Chaos, science book on Oceanography, book on the composition of seawater), 
• poetry (mauve sea-orchids, Never by Jorie Graham, Cantos by Pound, Trilogy by H.D., audio recordings of Gertrude Stein) 
• and a pile of secondary resources (Tree of Meaning, 2 other books of poetry by Jorie Graham, 2 books on architecture and visual art)

 

2 hours working on the anthology
3 hours reading for and writing seminar pass

Tuesday, February 12

1 hour responding to seminar passes and composing virtual seminar post
2 hours writing
.5 hour reading HD’s Trilogy
1 hour assembling images and quotes at luminoussea.tumblr.com – Discovered googleartproject.com, so cool!
1 hour color and water-rhythm study at Priest Point park
2 hours writing midquarter self-eval

Wednesday, February 13

1 hour midquarter meeting with Sarah
(chocolate-tasting)
2 hours working on anthology with Marisa
1 hour posting images and poetry to luminoussea.tumblr.com
1 hour selecting books and reading through the oceanography section of the library
1 hour reading poetry out loud: Jorie Graham Never and mauve sea-orchids

Thursday, February 14

1 hour posting to luminoussea.tumblr.com
2 hours reading and writing Bachelardian reverie
1 hour meditating on water as the body

Friday, February 15

traveled to Portland
1 hour reading The Eyes of the Skin
1 hour experiencing body in salt water: salt soaking pools

Saturday, February 16

2 hours writing to discover what I want to convey in the term paper-aspect of this project
2 hours collecting poetry, images and diagrams about art, the ocean, tide and salt at my blog

Sunday, February 17

3 hours reading scientific book about saltwater and taking notes
.5 hour writing

 

Totals:
This week: 35 hours
Cumulative: 71 hours

Reading List:

• The Eyes of the Skin by Juhanni Pallasmaa
• mauve sea-orchids by Lila Zamborain
• Never by Jorie Graham
• Saltwater: Its Composition, Properties and Behaviour
• The Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard
• Unoriginal Genius by Marjorie Perloff
• Reading in the Brain by Stanislas Dehaene
• online resources: see luminoussea.tumblr.com