research journal (MA and beyond)
looking into archives for this next task. many to choose from but have always been interested in having a look at the national photographic archives ... below, notes on my research as i go. 1: The National Photographic Archives (NPA): location: meeting house square, temple bar. dublin. contents: holds the collection of photographs held by... Continue Reading →
decided to keep making and keep printing today. finished the lino cuts, rubbings and then printed a few together. yes better as a series than separate. better a softer colour also. next step overlapping? might also revert to drawing - overlap drawings, continuous line drawings? just printed a small edition of 5 until i figure... Continue Reading →
early start to a making day. for some reason worked in silence. spent time working on a series of lino prints of furniture stored in the shed from my grandparents home. unhomed chairs. as i worked, i began to consider the direction and position of the furniture. maybe position and direct along lines of gender?... Continue Reading →
http://2017.halftone.ie/prints/elaine-crowe/ happy to be part of Halftone Print Fair this year with two screen prints from my Ban an Tí series: Scissors and Masher (2017). took a good bit or organisation re cutting, signing, framing and delivering to The Library Project in Temple Bar - no parking so two bruised arms from carrying the box... Continue Reading →
responding to some of the ideas and questions posed by Les Bicknell last night. what i actually do in the process of making: yesterday - open. connect. close. move. listen. take. tape. draw. rub. draw. cut. rub. cut. lift. cut. fold. stack. open. squeeze. roll. align. press. rub. lift. lay. (roll. align. press. rub. lift. lay... Continue Reading →
context for this post: i include this post which i did as part of my 'form, fracture, frame' task because the video work 'for kathleen' (experiment 4) was in many ways the starting point for my exploratoration of landscape and gender. it indicated that object could be a way of exploring landscape and gender and instigated my exploration... Continue Reading →
intrigued by the work of Susan Trangmar - untitled landscapes. 1985. female figure in the landscape, back to the camera. (image: http://www.susantrangmar.com/art/untitled/Untitled3.html) thoughts: scale. perspective. view. gaze. woman and the landscape. man and the landscape. female gaze. male gaze. positions of power. ownership. master. conqueror. lord of all i survey. more thoughts: untitled landscapes. no title. title. position of... Continue Reading →
seeing all this advice to stay at home due to hurricane ophelia. kind of funny how i'm also thinking of article 41.2. suggesting a woman's place in the home...and its defense - 'nothing will change in law or fact of nature that a woman's natural sphere is in the home' (McQuaid, 1937). felt pretty cooped... Continue Reading →
honing my critical eye. probably always critical. not too critical that would put me off starting. pinpointing what works and what doesn't. useful exercise - there is a pattern. work is a whole: process, work. audience. task 1: take two artworks choose two of your own artworks, one you think is successful and one you... Continue Reading →
had great fun messing around with Aideen Barry's video projections on my hands at DLR Lexicon where i brought some students today. video projections on drawings - started placing the video projections on my body/hand. video. body. movement. found an image on someones blog last year who did likewise with my work island bound. caught herself present and... Continue Reading →
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/why-women-had-better-sex-under-socialism.html E sent me this link yesterday thinking id be interested: 'why women had better sex under socialism'. the work-life balance of women under communism left enough energy for sex. better gender equality - sharing household chores etc meant better sex....couldn't travel freely though. all equally unequal with energy to burn and nowhere to go.... Continue Reading →
thinking about what it might mean to take on messy. messy spaces, messy people. messy work. messy movements. uncontrolled messy. back to questions of gender. observed in the classroom - girls praised for their neatness and silence. neat = girl, messy = not girl. messy an act of defiance? messy movements, messy body, messy thoughts, messy... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 