research journal (MA and beyond)
journey through as far as the eye cannot see preparation for making day: as we are doing a combined making day with MA2 and MA3, i will have to introduce my practice in a couple of sentences. I have been chipping away at those questions for my LandEscape review interview so have been trying to... Continue Reading →
arcadia: i have been doing some research for my provocation task, looking into both sides of the argument that 'landscape is imagined'. one of the ideas that i have come across is the notion of 'arcadia'. arcadia refers to an ideal pastoral landscape: picturesque and in harmony with nature. the origin of the name 'arcadia' comes... Continue Reading →
proposition: i just had an interesting discussion with JV about our provocation task and am feeling excited about arriving at a proposition where we feel both sides could be equally interesting to argue. JV will argue for - discussing landscape as a mental, psychological and cultural construct etc. i will argue against - discussing the... Continue Reading →
writing and reading about my work: i have just spent the last 2 weekends writing about my work for an interview to be published in LandEscape Art Review. it was great to be selected to feature in this publication but i didn't anticipate how long it would take to complete the interview and am still... Continue Reading →
just to update what i have been working on over the summer - since my last post i have continued to screen print using objects of the landscape to create stencils, rather than the image and bitmap method i have been using. i wanted to use objects of a specific landscape where i walk and... Continue Reading →
ongoing: since my end of year submission i still seem to be spending my weekends in the studio researching, thinking about and/or working on a few different ideas and submissions in print and video. first up - wasn't happy with an edition i submitted which ended being shortlisted for a show so i reprinted it... Continue Reading →
bini oculus: i responded to an 'open call' brief for the 'one minutes' video archive etc. last week, using some footage i recorded of the landscape using 2 i-phones simultaneously. the 'open call' brief suggested alienation amongst other things, so i wanted to explore landscape through the strangeness of the human eye's binocular vision where the left... Continue Reading →
a step further: i have been meaning to revisit the screen printing exploratory series 'incomplete landscape' that i started which uses a split or two-part landscape image where the viewer has to move eyeline to complete the landscape into a single frame - again continuing my exploration of multiple views and unfixed perspectives. as i... Continue Reading →
physical contact: there are many ideas that i want to develop further from my 'landscape and lens' residency. i have been sitting at my desk for the last few days writing my paper on the lens as an embodied practice so was looking forward to getting back to some physical image making. as well as... Continue Reading →
research and making: one of the things that i noticed when i was doing my 'residency' was the two way process of research and making, not mutually exclusive but co-existing. prior to starting exploratory making on the 'residency' i had been doing a lot of research reading and writing on landscape and lens as an... Continue Reading →
day 5 & 6: for my last couple of days here, i wanted to just slow down: pause in the landscape as opposed to move through it. i have been thinking of developing a series of screen prints in a 'contact sheet' format mainly because i am interested in taking a multiple view approach to... Continue Reading →
day four: we are having such beautiful weather here at the moment that it's not hard to put in a few hours exploratory making on the mountains. today i got up early and headed for lake muskry in the galtee mountains as i wanted to avoid other walkers incase i wanted to film. i also... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 