{"id":9851,"date":"2012-05-16T00:02:02","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T23:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9851"},"modified":"2026-09-29T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T12:07:07","slug":"diana-brighouse-floating-green-leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=9851","title":{"rendered":"Diana Brighouse &#8211; <em>Floating Green Leaves<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/05_2012\/floating_green_leaves.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/floating_green_leaves.jpg' width=\"400\" alt=\"Floating Green Leaves\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/05_2012\/floating_green_leaves.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"> Floating Green Leaves (2012, 212MB, 3:52 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.creativesacrosssussex.com\/dianabrighouse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Brighouse<\/a> is a doctor turned artist in a grand tradition.<br \/>\nShe&#8217;s currently completing an MA at the University of Chichester in the UK.<br \/>\nHer work is intensely thoughtful and thought through and also often very beautiful.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not always keen on artist commentaries on their own work but what she sent<br \/>\nme is a model of clarity so I&#8217;ll reproduce it in full here.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;The underlying stimulus for my work is to challenge the reductive philosophy<br \/>\nthat prevails in Western society today.<br \/>\nI believe that reductionism is manifest through a prioritising of scientific<br \/>\nor quantitative methodology. An unquestioning belief in the measurable is<br \/>\nfound not only in science and technology, but also in education, medicine<br \/>\nand politics.<br \/>\nI believe that the supremacy of the measurable can be directly related not<br \/>\nonly to the political and financial threats to the arts, but also to the<br \/>\nregressive attitudes towards women and the disabled.<br \/>\nSuccessive postgraduate university educations in medicine, spirituality,<br \/>\npsychotherapy and art have repeatedly challenged the certainties I have<br \/>\nbeen taught.<br \/>\nMy use of digital video (a quantitative binary process) to produce images<br \/>\nthat I believe to be non-reductive reflects the paradoxes created by my<br \/>\nchosen professions.<br \/>\nThere are multiple possible interpretations of the videos depending on<br \/>\nthe background of the viewer. This is deliberate and hopefully supports<br \/>\nmy non-reductive thesis.<br \/>\nThese videos are part of a series investigating reflections; a second<br \/>\nseries that I am also currently working on investigates shadows.<br \/>\nMy intention is that this series will be more politically orientated.<br \/>\nMy videos are taken in my garden and edited with Sony Vegas Platinum 11.0HD.&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll have another of these beautiful works next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Floating Green Leaves (2012, 212MB, 3:52 min) Diana Brighouse is a doctor turned artist in a grand tradition. She&#8217;s currently completing an MA at the University of Chichester in the UK. 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