research journal (MA and beyond)
journey through measuring the easterlies returning to double vision: i just spent the last few days rethinking and reworking my 'double vision' videos that i had been working on in january. this comes out of an intensive few days working on my contextual study which looks at the gendered framing of the landscape in terms... Continue Reading →
written work: i have had the head down researching, reading and writing my contextual study for the past few weeks. while i have really enjoyed the routine of heading down to the studio every morning and getting stuck in, it has been a hard slog working my way through reading material and trying to clarify/articulate... Continue Reading →
plan for making day: for making day i plan to revisit the framing of the landscape using the rectilinear frame but this time really trying to stretch it horizontally as much as i can. i have head my stuck in my contextual study these last few days and discussing how the horizontality of the rectilinear... Continue Reading →
taking a breather: with everything that has been going on at the moment re physical and social distancing, landscape seems to be everywhere - a needed escape from the indoors that i keep obsessing over. confinement, or at least having to question where i could or should go, also seems to make me want to... Continue Reading →
what i am at: lately i have been trying to gather my thoughts and get some kind of structure on my contextual study. have been under the weather a bit too but have continued to gather and make but just didn't get around to posting til now .... video and print: one of the areas... Continue Reading →
developing work: i am continuing to develop work related to landscape and the lens in 3 areas - video projection, print, video projection with print. i intend to continue to develop these 3 areas until march when i will further select for exhibition. at the moment i have been concentrating on video & print and video... Continue Reading →
voice: i have been thinking about experimenting with some soundscapes and vocal narratives in my video pieces, something integrated into and layering on the visuals. i want to see how the voice responds to the framing of the landscape in some way - either as sound or narrative. for the moment this is occurring in... Continue Reading →
journey through contemplating a mountain EXPERIMENTATION 1: VISUALS AND PROJECTORS manipulation as challenge: i have been doing lots of reading about the manipulation of the image - manipulation being gendered female, manipulation being material, bodily and subjective against un-manipulated, immaterial, objective and apparently masculine image making processes. aren't all processes a manipulation anyway? isn't... Continue Reading →
manipulation as a form of challenge: over the past week, i have continued to look into 'making versus taking' in photography from a gendered perspective. in 'A History of Women Photographers' (2010) which i got my hands on recently, Rosenblum discusses the manipulation of image in women's photography, particularly in the 80s and 90s. adding... Continue Reading →
the physical frame: running through my exploratory making, i am also doing some exploratory reading. i came across a thesis discussing the form and function of the physical frame in contemporary art (Geraghty, 2008). while this thesis does not discuss its relation to gender, it does set out interesting theory, history and art practices related... Continue Reading →
still starting from scratch?: i decided to continue my pinhole camera work, this time heading to the sand dunes of sandymount. while these images are dark and somewhat vague (overexposure - 40 seconds too long) there is something that really draws me into the image because the subtle traces of elements in the landscape need... Continue Reading →
breaking the narrative: my new book arrived in the post, suggested by MW during my last tutorial - 'Broken Screen, Expanding the Image, Breaking the Narrative, 26 Conversations with Doug Aitken. there is an interesting diagram at the back which lists non-linear films, categorised according to how they can be considered non-linear, i.e. manipulation of... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 