Structuring the personal in Life-Work

This paper investigates my practice research Life-Work (Cornall,2022) and offers a reworking of its original exegesis. The aim is to reexamine the creation of the work in 2020, emphasising its practical aims that were missed when I presented the film at a conference. The discovery is an idiosyncratic attempt to create a personal structural film and respond to Hollis Frampton’s (nostalgia) (1971). Working from Barbara Bolt’s material handling (2010) I argue this personal discovery is important research for reinstating practical knowing.