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To make my mini reader I pulled a few key quotes from my references; and created new visual compositions with them. I combined the text and images (diagrams sourced from my archive), to draw attention to different parts of the quotes and create concrete poetry style spreads. The pacing and image combinations is in line…

Abstract What is the place of graphic representation in transferring, structuring, and systematising knowledge practices? In terms of my enquiry, graphic representation in particular refers to the rendering of knowledge through diagrams. Through my work I consider diagrammatic practice as an exercise in both archiving and publishing; where illustrated figures trace gesture and learning in…

To accompany the set of cards, I also wanted to trace and catalogue the moments in diagrammatic manuals where the hand of the maker appears. In How to Diagram, I write: A type of projection takes place when reading a diagram. We make it perform for us so that it is functional. In our minds,…

The next stage of my project was to engage with an audience in a meaningful way. I did this by creating a set of postcards that I encouraged people to draw on, thus creating their own diagrams. The cards had fragments of diagrammatic language detailed on them, but I had removed the illustrated figure itself.…

After making my film, I decided to delve deeper into the act of cataloguing and indexing the set of books I used for the project in the previous term. This led to creating A Diagram Sourcebook which is a comprehensive, detailed compendium of the diagrams I sourced and their original contexts. Creating the book led…

After writing and drafting my book in the previous term, the direction of my project(ion) turned to enactment. I took this to mean exploring ways I could play with the functionality of diagrams to bring them into the present tense. I wanted to create different entry points for people to engage with my work, and…

Final photography and spreads which were made to upload to GCD.STUDIO. Please see the post here: https://gcd.studio/pages/how-to-diagram-5xgGnqeMh

Studio experiments testing the idea of a “meta-diagram”, and exploring the concept of gesture through diagramming.

Animated tests of weaving patterns from Falcot’s Weave Compendium. Following the cues on the diagrams I made animations from the frames.