research journal (MA and beyond)
day 3: i went up to the woods today and with a plan this time. returning to the action of the camera again but this time to explore or maybe reinforce the lens as an embodied practice by changing one of its technical aspects which directly links to the action of the body - the shutter... Continue Reading →
day 2: for day two I took off up the galtee mountains again and, like yesterday, my exploratory work started in an unplanned way. as well as thinking about landscape and lens, i wanted to take a quick selfie on the mountains for a FB post. again I was struck by the idea myself as framer... Continue Reading →
lens versus eye - an iso series (day 1: landscape and lens 'residency') creating a 'residency': after revisiting my PPP, i have been thinking about creating my own residency because so many residences that i've researched either don't suit my available time frame due to work commitments or do not suit the kind of exploratory... Continue Reading →
developing a series: i just spent the last few days working on 3 editions of screen prints which uses a dual image to create a single image through a stereograph - like the way the human eye uses binocular stereopsis - a slight shift in the framing from left to right. this is all part... Continue Reading →
methodical approach to colour: following on from making day, where i went through the C and K of the CMYK screen printing process for a landscape image to test on my stereograph, i spent the rest of the day and weekend working through the MY of the CMYK process in a very methodical way. this... Continue Reading →
leaving open calls behind: having tested the boundaries of where my print and video work might belong or reach and audience through open calls, i reluctantly pause this type of testing to instead create (rather than react to) opportunities beyond the open call process. i say reluctantly because i have learned a lot through this process... 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 →
landscape and post production: last wednesday was the launch of dublin's feminist film festival so i went to a series of short films by female film-makers. the shorts were by national and international film-makers and roughly 10 minutes in duration. the themes touched on overt feminist issues such as body image, sexuality, domesticity, motherhood, physical... Continue Reading →
continued to work on the 'room' screen print series over the summer which continues my exploration of landscape and gender - room: indoors and outdoors, room: place, movement, confinement, room: partial views and of the domestic. there is a lot more scope to explore these juxtapositions further through image, print and as of course video... Continue Reading →
3 layer bitmaps for landscape 1 3 layer bitmaps for landscape 2 prep for print: just spent the last few days preparing my images for screen printing in the DFP Studios next week. this print series explores notions of a real and idealised or romanticised landscape through image and text. i am using images of... Continue Reading →
areading through what the geographer Gillian Rose has to say about landscape and gender in 'Feminism & Gender, the Limits of Geographical Knowledge (1993). in her chapter 'Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power' (p. 86 - 112) Rose discusses how the term landscape and landscape paintings are embedded with cultural values which indicate... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 