research journal (MA and beyond)
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 →
GREEN: MA2 bibliography, with ongoing references to BLUE: MA1 bibliography Alexander, J.A.P. (2015) Perspectives on Place, Theory and Practice in Landscape Photography. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Ltd. Arts Tonight (2015) Making 1916: Material and Visual Culture of the Easter Rising. RTÉ Radio 1, 2nd November: 20.00 [radio online] At: http://www.rte.ie/radio/utils/radioplayer/rteradioweb.html#!rii=b9_10484617_1538_02-11-2015_ (Accessed on 30.03.18). Audi, R (1999) 'Phenomenology'. In: The... 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 →
developing the work that i began last year which looks at my relationship to the landscape (landscape and body), i have been using predominantly lens based methods such as video and print. the main questions that i have been looking into recently through both my making and reading relate to landscape and lens-based processes. conscious... Continue Reading →
as part of my research into my lens based work on landscape and body, i have begun researching phenomenological approaches to film and lens-based media. i often describe my work as being predominantly lens based and predominantly visual - it seems i have much to learn. so first up - The Tactile Eye (2009) by Jennifer... 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 →
testing and open calls: following on from a discussion i had about landscape and image last week, i spent yesterday evening working on a small print edition for two separate submissions - a print fair in Galway Arts Centre and Trasna 8 in the Courthouse Gallery in Ennistymon. both open calls simply gave a brief... Continue Reading →
a really interesting group crit this evening. the best thing to do with our discussion of so many things is to write it all down without filtering so all things considered... a list of words and phrases - on mine: coils. wrapping the body, a movement. around the body. something to touch. fragmenting. spirals. suggesting... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 