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- ItemThe story of how it was made : an investigation of artistic practice(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2018-03) Staple, Jessica; Nyoni, Vulindlela; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Visual Arts.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This book is centred on the very act of artistic creation, in other words making. I aim to demonstrate that art making is a meaningful, generative and transformative activity. Specifically, I will argue that making is an independent and continuous process and that this activity is also the very substance of a work of art. This is not just a mechanical form of production but a creative and formative one that undergoes repeated adjustment and leads to a unique kind of knowledge and understanding. I will also investigate the process of transformation both inherent to the activity and motivated by external influences, and how this process comes to impact on the resultant artworks thereafter. The thesis thus takes the form of an artist's book wherein the activity of the artist comes to the fore as well as the formative role played by the viewer as she or he follows in the creative act. Sitting alongside the artworks, studio journal entries and the broader theoretical framework of the thesis are various myths, folk tales and fairy stories, collectively titled 'Stories of the Underworld-Otherworld'. While providing an important source of inspiration towards my own art making, they also provide a creative means, in words, to express certain aspects of artistic practice (a visual and material productive space) that cannot be confined to literal or descriptive terms.