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 →

journey through an analogue process exploration - returning to unease: for the last few weeks i have been getting ready to start exploring again - not that i had stopped but more that i had not done anything really unknown. starting this type of exploration seems necessary to keep me pushing at the questions i'm... Continue Reading →

journey through undressing the horizon getting real: recently i have been writing up an exhibition proposal about what my work is about and some ideas about how i intend to install work. it was all feeling a little bit aspirational until today when i just started to experiment physically with the materials, forms and type... Continue Reading →

some exploratory research: thinking about the edge of the pictorial frame and limits chosen to contain landscape as image, i went to sandymount to gather some footage of the sea. the sea as a landscape stretches far to the horizon so it seemed like a good place to go to to examine how i contain... Continue Reading →