research journal (MA and beyond)
finding an audience through open calls: i am just back from visiting 'trasna 8' exhibition in the courthouse gallery in Ennistymon County Clare, where i had submitted a print for an open call of A5 art works. as part of my regular online search for opportunities, i came across two open call gallery opportunities for A5... Continue Reading →
line: continuing to question my use of analogue and digital processes, i have been thinking of mixing some hand drawn and hand cut lines with digital images of landscape. this follows on from Tim Ingold's text 'Drawing the Line' in Making (2013) which discusses the haptic quality of drawing versus the optic quality of photography.... Continue Reading →
optic vs haptic: i have just read Tim Ingold's text 'Drawing the Line' in 'Making, Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and Architecture' (2013) about the merits of line as a means of telling. according to Ingold, line is an act of telling because it always has a trace of hand and gesture. Ingold describes lines of gestural... Continue Reading →
nothing to do with landscape body or gender, simply christmas but it does remind me of the potential for physically cut stencils in screen printing. as i said on my last post, cut stencils could 'slide' with photo stencils as a way of exploring haptic and optic perception and experience of landscape and landscape imagery.... Continue Reading →
one of things that i concluded from my last image making using a mixture of digital and analogue processes was the potential to throw something onto the binary mix of a negative image translation. if black equals white and white equals black i wondered if the image colour translation could be disrupted somehow by another... Continue Reading →
i have been thinking a lot about the merits of digital and analogue lens based media in relation to my work on landscape so i decided work through a sequence of image making which plays with aspects of both methods. the sequence:- digital capture of image using i-phone digital manipulation of image using photoshop digital... Continue Reading →
thinking about how we view and experience the landscape, i have been reading another text related to lens based work and bodily encounters by Laura Marks called 'Touch, Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media' (2002). one of the arguments that seems to keep coming up is the idea of 'haptic' experience, visuality or perception. The term 'haptic'... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 