Blurring the Boundaries: Navigating Elusive Creative Practice via the Multitextual, Metaleptic and Ergodic Form

Abstract

In this practice-led thesis I investigate the concept of an ‘elusive creative practice’ that blurs the boundaries between narrative non-narrative experimental and abstract forms of representation. Elusiveness is a quality which confounds singular authoritative interpretation refuses closure and transgresses medial constraints and parameters. My primary focus is on the creative practice and work of the American artist and filmmaker David Lynch. In my analysis of the extensive corpus of Lynch’s creativity I conceptualise a model of creative practice using the theoretical terms ‘ergodic’ ‘metaleptic’ and ‘multitextual’ to describe a form of elusive practice. This tripartite theoretical model then underpins describes and allows me to reflect upon my own artistic practice as a form of creative elusiveness.