Saturday, November 27, 2010
Freeplay - BRS by Maria Coleman
Body Response System @ Project Brand New from Maria Coleman on Vimeo.
I got to go to this yesterday - a more recent version now called Freeplay, in the Crypt of Christchurch and I was blown away by the experience. The combination of analog dance and sax with electronic gadgetry was delightful.
Apparently the backprojected visuals (not seen in this earlier version) use ISADORA which I learnt a tiny bit about in second year.
Maria is doing her PhD currently, but when she is past that, Autumn 2011, we hope to meet up and exchange ideas.
She said she had seen my Balance piece on YouTube and liked it; and her cameraman said he remembered seeing the Wrinkley's Playhouse at NCAD and thought it was strong.
Oh I do love 'strokes' like those.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Plato's Cave animation from Youtube
I think I may have posted this before,(see October 2008) but it's worth looking at again.
It is the last sentence or two that gives me food for thought.
Beginning at timerrame 7:14 minutes Plato Says:
It is the last sentence or two that gives me food for thought.
Beginning at timerrame 7:14 minutes Plato Says:
It is the task of the enlightened, not only to ascend to learning and to see the good, but to be willing to descend again to those prisoners and to share their troubles and their honours, whether they are worth having or not, And this thing is due, even with the prospect of death. They should give of their help to one another, wherever each class is able to help the community.What might this be saying to me about going back into the cave, having spent my years in the glorious sunlight of art-college?
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
YET ANOTHER NEW BLOG ....
Do I really need to have eleven blogs?
Well, the difficulty is that I have so may different trains of thought coursing through my brain at any one time - like a big river in flood.
So at some mad moment, I thought that if I had a different blog for each strain of thought, it might help me to disentangle the thinking.
It works up to a oint ..
Anyway, the new blog is badly needed - at least if it works it will fulfil a very useful function.
I can't promise that it will. Time will tell, and I only started it yesterday. You can find it here.
Well, the difficulty is that I have so may different trains of thought coursing through my brain at any one time - like a big river in flood.
So at some mad moment, I thought that if I had a different blog for each strain of thought, it might help me to disentangle the thinking.
It works up to a oint ..
Anyway, the new blog is badly needed - at least if it works it will fulfil a very useful function.
I can't promise that it will. Time will tell, and I only started it yesterday. You can find it here.
Sunday, September 5, 2010
other blogs updates
Been working on some of the other blogs, sorting out my ideas for the different projects.
Went to Nigel Rolfe exhibition on Wednesday. Much impressed, especially with the two videos that make up the piece European Dream.
These images are from this website
Got chatting to Nigel Rolfe, and he gave me his email and was very encouraging about me contacting him. I said I would sent him a link to the blog with the BALANCE piece on it.
But when I went to the blog Betsy-Wow to Others BALANCE wasn't on it. It took me two days to get something loaded, and its just a glimpse of the whole - hasn't even got titles on it.
Am now planning to put up the small video I created on the iMac to provide the Soundtrack. This hasn't been seen before, so if you want a look, this is where you will find it. Image is a bit jumpy, but it's the voice I used.
Went to Nigel Rolfe exhibition on Wednesday. Much impressed, especially with the two videos that make up the piece European Dream.
These images are from this website
Got chatting to Nigel Rolfe, and he gave me his email and was very encouraging about me contacting him. I said I would sent him a link to the blog with the BALANCE piece on it.
But when I went to the blog Betsy-Wow to Others BALANCE wasn't on it. It took me two days to get something loaded, and its just a glimpse of the whole - hasn't even got titles on it.
Am now planning to put up the small video I created on the iMac to provide the Soundtrack. This hasn't been seen before, so if you want a look, this is where you will find it. Image is a bit jumpy, but it's the voice I used.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
BUSY DAY
Tuesday August 31 I went to town with Tony and what could be called an 'INFO-HUNT'
We made several calls
1. to CREATE where I
2. Then we went and bought some supplies in A4 Art short reviews of the shop here I really enjoy shopping here. They have a great selection, and will order things for you if they don't have what you want in stock.
3. After lunch at the Food Gallery, Thomas Street, we took a 123 bus from outside the Polish Church to Cathal Brugha Street near the top of O'Connell Street. From there we walked the short distance up Marlborough St, across Parnell Street, and up Nth Great George's Street to Number 37 (same year as my date of birth) where Visual Artists Ireland is located.
Had a nice chat with the Education officer who told me a bit
Out on to Great Denmark Street, we passed the hotel on the corner that had once been the home of some of Tony's ancestors the Mathew family.
Along then past Barry's Hotel, which Tony said will be packed next week (or is it the 3rd week in Sept) when Cork come to play in the All Ireland Football.
4. On Parnell Square, just before we got to our bus-stop, Tony spotted the Company Registration Office, so we called in there and got forms and information about the advantages and disadvantages of creating a small company to safeguard the family from any legal mishaps I might have as an artist.
5. We had a short wait for the Number 10 bus which took us to Baggot Street Bridge over the canal. Using the map I had downloaded from the internet, we were looking for SEAI to enquire about putting in external insulation. I know this isn't really 'art activity'. However, the pity is we didn't really document our efforts as they proved quite a whimsical performance.
The problem arose because the map was oriented northwords on the page, but we were needing to travel southwards. It didn't help that when we reached the bridge, we found that there isn't a road on each side of the canal, as there is at most other bridges. If I had left it to Tony to direct the operation, it would have been fine. However, I was full sure I knew which way we should go, and ended up confusing him, and then totally confusing myself.
Luckily he has a good sense of direction, and sensed that we were going the wrong way.
So we ended up going through a tiny park at the side of the canal where I took a photo of the Patrick Kavanagh seat before we crossed the water by way of the lock gates - what a dangerous place that is with the very deep water so close to the footpath.
With only a small amount of searching, we found the SEAI building - at least the building where it is located. I was very impressed with the redbrick paving at the entrance which made a huge ramp as the main walkway, and steps as the periphery - a dramatic statement of the importance of accessibility.
Inside the building while we waiting in the Reception area, I spotted some ficus trees that were very nicely trained, so I photographed them too with the idea that I will try this out with the willow shoots I brought from Hazel's.
The SEAI chap didn't know a lot, but he took our phone number and said a consultant will contact us over the next day or so.
On the way home, I started reading the FACE-ON book, but slept most of the way.
It has been a long but satisfying day.
We made several calls
1. to CREATE where I
- joined as an Associate, and
- booked a place for the NETWORKING EVENT they are giving in Ballymun on Sept 16.
- Also hear about an Event which will be held in the Civic Offices on Sept 30
- Also found out about a scheme called Artist in the Community Research and Development Award which might apply to the 'Seeing with my Hands' ideas. Details of the 2010 Scheme are here but it could be different for the next Scheme which is around February 2011.
- Also got a book called FACE ON which is about art by people who have disabilities to cope with, both physical and social.
2. Then we went and bought some supplies in A4 Art short reviews of the shop here I really enjoy shopping here. They have a great selection, and will order things for you if they don't have what you want in stock.
3. After lunch at the Food Gallery, Thomas Street, we took a 123 bus from outside the Polish Church to Cathal Brugha Street near the top of O'Connell Street. From there we walked the short distance up Marlborough St, across Parnell Street, and up Nth Great George's Street to Number 37 (same year as my date of birth) where Visual Artists Ireland is located.
Had a nice chat with the Education officer who told me a bit
- about the organization,
- about insurance
- about advantages of membership
- that I would qualify as a professional member having three criteria off their list: my degree, being chosen for Claremorris, and Emerging Artist Award.
- about courses to be held in the next year
Out on to Great Denmark Street, we passed the hotel on the corner that had once been the home of some of Tony's ancestors the Mathew family.
Along then past Barry's Hotel, which Tony said will be packed next week (or is it the 3rd week in Sept) when Cork come to play in the All Ireland Football.
4. On Parnell Square, just before we got to our bus-stop, Tony spotted the Company Registration Office, so we called in there and got forms and information about the advantages and disadvantages of creating a small company to safeguard the family from any legal mishaps I might have as an artist.
5. We had a short wait for the Number 10 bus which took us to Baggot Street Bridge over the canal. Using the map I had downloaded from the internet, we were looking for SEAI to enquire about putting in external insulation. I know this isn't really 'art activity'. However, the pity is we didn't really document our efforts as they proved quite a whimsical performance.
The problem arose because the map was oriented northwords on the page, but we were needing to travel southwards. It didn't help that when we reached the bridge, we found that there isn't a road on each side of the canal, as there is at most other bridges. If I had left it to Tony to direct the operation, it would have been fine. However, I was full sure I knew which way we should go, and ended up confusing him, and then totally confusing myself.
Luckily he has a good sense of direction, and sensed that we were going the wrong way.
So we ended up going through a tiny park at the side of the canal where I took a photo of the Patrick Kavanagh seat before we crossed the water by way of the lock gates - what a dangerous place that is with the very deep water so close to the footpath.
With only a small amount of searching, we found the SEAI building - at least the building where it is located. I was very impressed with the redbrick paving at the entrance which made a huge ramp as the main walkway, and steps as the periphery - a dramatic statement of the importance of accessibility.
Inside the building while we waiting in the Reception area, I spotted some ficus trees that were very nicely trained, so I photographed them too with the idea that I will try this out with the willow shoots I brought from Hazel's.
The SEAI chap didn't know a lot, but he took our phone number and said a consultant will contact us over the next day or so.
On the way home, I started reading the FACE-ON book, but slept most of the way.
It has been a long but satisfying day.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
THE ENTRY BELOW !!!
It's a bit crazy that entry - I was thinking aloud when I wrote it.
And it's still not finished!
WATCH THIS SPACE!
Two days later -
LOOK AGAIN - hopefully the confusion has been sorted and it makes more sense now!
And it's still not finished!
WATCH THIS SPACE!
Two days later -
LOOK AGAIN - hopefully the confusion has been sorted and it makes more sense now!
THE WAY AHEAD
So in a sense, all the events mentioned in the previous entry are the background against which I am struggling to sort myself out.
First thing that strikes me is that word 'struggling'. Over my head as I type this, sitting in hot and brilliant sunshine, so brilliant I had to close the curtains to be able to read the screen - over my head is a picture of Eric Berne. I just realize now that I removed the quotation that I used to have there, and included it in one of the Albums shown in the Wrinkley's Playhouse.
Anyway, what the quotation said was something like this:
Well, there are four challenges facing me (art-related challenges - I probably have lots of others too, but I'm not thinking of those just now.)
And these preparations fall under different TIME STRICTURES;
What I've done is to set up a separate Blog for each of the projects. Currently they each have the same set of questions listed, but no doubt as I begin work on them, each will change and become unique according as I expand my ideas.
First thing that strikes me is that word 'struggling'. Over my head as I type this, sitting in hot and brilliant sunshine, so brilliant I had to close the curtains to be able to read the screen - over my head is a picture of Eric Berne. I just realize now that I removed the quotation that I used to have there, and included it in one of the Albums shown in the Wrinkley's Playhouse.
Anyway, what the quotation said was something like this:
I need to remember this, which is probably one of the reasons I am sitting here, working on the chaos in my head.
Life isn't a struggle, unless you make it so. Stop struggling and start living.
Well, there are four challenges facing me (art-related challenges - I probably have lots of others too, but I'm not thinking of those just now.)
- 1. The RDS exhibition, and the decisions I need to make as to what parts of the Wrinkley's Playhouse I will be exhibiting and how I will be showing it.
- 2. I have begun preliminary work on a piece I have been talking about for a long time now (since 2007 actually) This week I gave it a name: The ZAN people - Did they know?
- 3. I have begun talking about a piece I want to do, possibly in the New Year, certainly when the RDS is over. It will be called Touch Vision and is about seeing with my hands.
- 4. I nearly forgot the idea I have also been talking about for a couple of years the Faith Festival which ideally should happen in January during the Unity Octave.
And these preparations fall under different TIME STRICTURES;
What I've done is to set up a separate Blog for each of the projects. Currently they each have the same set of questions listed, but no doubt as I begin work on them, each will change and become unique according as I expand my ideas.
SORTING OUT MY HEAD
Over two months now since the Wrinkley's Playhouse packed up and came home! How the time has flown.
Since then I have become a volunteer invigilator at The Model/Niland Gallery in Sligo, and go there on the train each Friday.
I leave home around 0730, and the latest I'm back is around 2300 hours that night.
A number of people are telling me I'm mad to do this, and why wouldn't I volunteer in some Dublin Gallery. Well, to me it is not real madness, rather an unconventional way of giving myself what I want in a way that I am unlikely to wiggle out of being good to myself, and at the same time benefitting someone else at the same time.
On the journey, I do a considerable amount of reading, something I lack the discipline to do at home. (Of course, I sometimes snooze in between the reading, but that's a gift to myself also.)
At the Gallery, I get the opportunity to really study the work being exhibited. At the moment there are two exhibitions. One is Jack B Yeats The Living Ginger a series of watercolours dating 1898 to 1910.
I am enjoying the challenge of 'looking twice' at these works since I have a tendency to say 'I hate painting', and so often cheat myself out of an experience that is readily available to me.
(Image from this website)
The second exhibition is Duncan Campbell's Make it New John, a video about John DeLorean making his car. As well as the video clip on the Model/Niland website, there is also a link to an audio clip from a TodayFM audio clip which unfortunately is incomplete, but excellent as far as it goes.
Alongside Make it New John, there is a second video made in 2003 called Falls Burns Malone Fiddles. I find this video far more challenging to get my head around. It consists of images and voiceover. The images are from an archive of images of Belfast - not the Troubles, but in a sense what went on in ordinary places in ordinary people's lives in between the Troubles. The voiceover by Ewen Bremner is a monologue combination of sociological theory and stream of consciousness ramblings. Part of the 33min video includes overprinted animation, lines, circles ...
I couldn't say I enjoyed watching it - I keep wondering would I have watched it five times if I hadn't been invigilating it. However, with time, there is a certain familiarity has grown on me, and I am watching out for favourite bits when I recognize they are due to appear.
There are new exhibitions promised for September - I am looking forward to them all, and really, I don't see stuff like this in Dublin - well not as often as I would like.
(Image from this website)
In Dublin, I went to Altered Images in IMMA - especially enjoyed video by Amanda Coogan - the sign language one - the snails one was a bit too much for me, though I made myself watch it for a good while.
(Image from this website)
Alice Maher snail piece was easier for me to deal with - but only easi-ER. Both of them were difficult for an inveterate 'snail-masher' gardener like me.
Other shows I have been to over the two months were Green on Red Painting Today - a group show with Fergus Martin, Mark Joyce, Damien Flood, John Cronin, Eleanor Moreton, Michael Conrads
As I mentioned above, I don't really like painting, so I have to make an effort to 'look twice' at what I am seeing. This exhibition had three pieces I really liked. In case the link above doesn't work after the show closes August 28, here are some images they showed that I liked.
The first piece I liked lit up the room for me when I entered. It looked far more spectacular than it does in the image. The sun was shining outside, and the brilliant light reflected on these 'pipes' which seemed to be coated with something like the ceramic surface often used by Hundertwasser.
The only thing I didn't like was the purple colour (the title is Violet, and the artist is Fergus Martin,) whom I didn't even know I liked until I did a Google search and realized he did the big shiny 'drums' on the back entrance of IMMA
Interesting enough, the other piece that WOWed me was also by Fergus Martin. It is called Today, and is an almost black canvas with a small rectangle of white in the upper right corner.
What set me alight in this piece was the reflection of white light on the wall above the white rectangle. It doesn't show in the image, but it was there for my visit and I just loved it.
The third piece I liked a bit was called Augmented Reality and was by John Cronin. It was the shade of green that attracted me. I could live with looking at that painting for a long time. Even thinking back to it gives me a buzz.
In the Science Gallery, I enjoyed myself experimenting with the interactive displays on the theme BIORHYTHM.
HEART 'N BEAT VIDEO can be seen here
As always, the Science Gallery reminds me how much I want to experiment with the electronic stuff. There just isn't enough hours in the day.
I'm going downstairs to eat now to re-stock my blood-sugar. I'm just realizing that I needed to get all that exhibition stuff out of the way before I could tackle the real chaos of the different ideas that are pulling me in different directions.
Since then I have become a volunteer invigilator at The Model/Niland Gallery in Sligo, and go there on the train each Friday.
I leave home around 0730, and the latest I'm back is around 2300 hours that night.
A number of people are telling me I'm mad to do this, and why wouldn't I volunteer in some Dublin Gallery. Well, to me it is not real madness, rather an unconventional way of giving myself what I want in a way that I am unlikely to wiggle out of being good to myself, and at the same time benefitting someone else at the same time.
(Image from this website)
On the journey, I do a considerable amount of reading, something I lack the discipline to do at home. (Of course, I sometimes snooze in between the reading, but that's a gift to myself also.)
At the Gallery, I get the opportunity to really study the work being exhibited. At the moment there are two exhibitions. One is Jack B Yeats The Living Ginger a series of watercolours dating 1898 to 1910.
I am enjoying the challenge of 'looking twice' at these works since I have a tendency to say 'I hate painting', and so often cheat myself out of an experience that is readily available to me.
(Image from this website)
The second exhibition is Duncan Campbell's Make it New John, a video about John DeLorean making his car. As well as the video clip on the Model/Niland website, there is also a link to an audio clip from a TodayFM audio clip which unfortunately is incomplete, but excellent as far as it goes.
(Image from this website)
Alongside Make it New John, there is a second video made in 2003 called Falls Burns Malone Fiddles. I find this video far more challenging to get my head around. It consists of images and voiceover. The images are from an archive of images of Belfast - not the Troubles, but in a sense what went on in ordinary places in ordinary people's lives in between the Troubles. The voiceover by Ewen Bremner is a monologue combination of sociological theory and stream of consciousness ramblings. Part of the 33min video includes overprinted animation, lines, circles ...
I couldn't say I enjoyed watching it - I keep wondering would I have watched it five times if I hadn't been invigilating it. However, with time, there is a certain familiarity has grown on me, and I am watching out for favourite bits when I recognize they are due to appear.
There are new exhibitions promised for September - I am looking forward to them all, and really, I don't see stuff like this in Dublin - well not as often as I would like.
(Image from this website)
In Dublin, I went to Altered Images in IMMA - especially enjoyed video by Amanda Coogan - the sign language one - the snails one was a bit too much for me, though I made myself watch it for a good while.
(Image from this website)
Alice Maher snail piece was easier for me to deal with - but only easi-ER. Both of them were difficult for an inveterate 'snail-masher' gardener like me.
Other shows I have been to over the two months were Green on Red Painting Today - a group show with Fergus Martin, Mark Joyce, Damien Flood, John Cronin, Eleanor Moreton, Michael Conrads
As I mentioned above, I don't really like painting, so I have to make an effort to 'look twice' at what I am seeing. This exhibition had three pieces I really liked. In case the link above doesn't work after the show closes August 28, here are some images they showed that I liked.
The first piece I liked lit up the room for me when I entered. It looked far more spectacular than it does in the image. The sun was shining outside, and the brilliant light reflected on these 'pipes' which seemed to be coated with something like the ceramic surface often used by Hundertwasser.
The only thing I didn't like was the purple colour (the title is Violet, and the artist is Fergus Martin,) whom I didn't even know I liked until I did a Google search and realized he did the big shiny 'drums' on the back entrance of IMMA
Interesting enough, the other piece that WOWed me was also by Fergus Martin. It is called Today, and is an almost black canvas with a small rectangle of white in the upper right corner.
What set me alight in this piece was the reflection of white light on the wall above the white rectangle. It doesn't show in the image, but it was there for my visit and I just loved it.
The third piece I liked a bit was called Augmented Reality and was by John Cronin. It was the shade of green that attracted me. I could live with looking at that painting for a long time. Even thinking back to it gives me a buzz.
In the Science Gallery, I enjoyed myself experimenting with the interactive displays on the theme BIORHYTHM.
HEART 'N BEAT VIDEO can be seen here
As always, the Science Gallery reminds me how much I want to experiment with the electronic stuff. There just isn't enough hours in the day.
I'm going downstairs to eat now to re-stock my blood-sugar. I'm just realizing that I needed to get all that exhibition stuff out of the way before I could tackle the real chaos of the different ideas that are pulling me in different directions.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
No longer a Student ...
It's now August. All the hype of the show is over, though not the good feelings I collected from all the nice things people said about the Wrinkley's Playhouse.
Much of the stress is over too - Tony and I went to the Willie Clancy Week in Miltown Malbay and danced and danced for ten days until I was so relaxed that I couldn't remember what I had been stressing myself about.
Next art event is the RDS exhibition in November.
It was another big stroke to hear I had been accepted, and made up somewhat for not getting accepted for Claremorris. (Hopefully I have learned a lesson about not preparing/submitting a proposal at the last minute.)
Hoping to volunteer at Model Gallery in Sligo.
Items from Wrinkley's Playhouse hanging in the hallway of 8 SVA.
Otherwise, working on sorting out the aftermath of the degree-show at the same time as designing new shelving in the work-room that will hopefully give me more space, better organized.
Much of the stress is over too - Tony and I went to the Willie Clancy Week in Miltown Malbay and danced and danced for ten days until I was so relaxed that I couldn't remember what I had been stressing myself about.
Next art event is the RDS exhibition in November.
It was another big stroke to hear I had been accepted, and made up somewhat for not getting accepted for Claremorris. (Hopefully I have learned a lesson about not preparing/submitting a proposal at the last minute.)
Hoping to volunteer at Model Gallery in Sligo.
Items from Wrinkley's Playhouse hanging in the hallway of 8 SVA.Sunday, June 13, 2010
DEGREE AT LAST
Just a quick note to tell everyone that I got the degree.
The show is on at NCAD this coming week - June 13 - 20
This is my personal invite to you to come and see what I did in the end.
Dear Relatives, Friends, and Everyone
I have now completed my time in NCAD – the first five years – who knows what is to come.
The GRADUATE EXHIBITION 2010 takes place at
NCAD, 100 Thomas St. Dn.8, at the following times:
Saturday June 12 10a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday June 13 2 p.m. to 5.p.m.
Mon-Friday 14,15,16,17,18 10 a.m. to 8.p.m.
Saturday June 19 10a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday June 20 2 p.m.to 5.p.m.
NOTE the Sunday time given on the yellow card if you got one is a misprint. The correct Sunday opening time is TWO OCLOCK, not noon as stated.
NCAD can be a confusing building, so here are some directions.
1. there is no car-parking on site. (try Tivoli on Francis St, or multi-storey on corner of Bridgefoot St.
2. Enter through the large archway with the open Blue Gates.
3. Turn right. You are going to the Fine Art MEDIA department.
4. Keep straight ahead, through double doors and up the stairs. (be prepared for a long climb. If you have mobility issues, phone me at 087933 5005 and I will come down and guide you to the lift.)
5. Turn left at top of stairs for the WRINKLEY’S PLAYHOUSE
Looking forward to greeting you.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
20 Mins a Day
This is a new performance, influenced - even inspired - by my experience of sitting for 20 minutes with Marina Abramovic in New York at the preview of her new piece "The Artist is Present" This website has a life feed so that you can see who if anyone is sitting with her at any particular moment.
Marina plans to be at MOMA every day it is open for the next 72 days. Her piece is durational, and challenges her body to complete this task, no mean feat for someone now 64 years old.
My piece is a lot more modest. I also plan to perform for the same 72 days as she is doing, but for a mere 20 Mins a day.
Her piece is about being present to those who come to the gallery, especially those who choose to sit with her for a while.
This is how she looked the day I was there, with her long navy dress.
My piece is about sitting with myself, yes thinking of her, but mainly thinking about being present to myself, to my own 'present moment', and for that brief time, disentangling myself from strong emotional attachments: on the one hand the deep reluctance I have to letting go of the past, and on the other hand, the fear I have of stepping bravely into the unknown future.
There is also a sub-text in which I feel I am accompanying Marina, in a tiny way, sending her 'good vibrations', and visualizing her in the 'golden light' as she lives through the challenge she has set herself.
Here is how I looked during my first session today. (click image to enlarge)
Marina plans to be at MOMA every day it is open for the next 72 days. Her piece is durational, and challenges her body to complete this task, no mean feat for someone now 64 years old.
My piece is a lot more modest. I also plan to perform for the same 72 days as she is doing, but for a mere 20 Mins a day.
Her piece is about being present to those who come to the gallery, especially those who choose to sit with her for a while.
This is how she looked the day I was there, with her long navy dress.
My piece is about sitting with myself, yes thinking of her, but mainly thinking about being present to myself, to my own 'present moment', and for that brief time, disentangling myself from strong emotional attachments: on the one hand the deep reluctance I have to letting go of the past, and on the other hand, the fear I have of stepping bravely into the unknown future.
There is also a sub-text in which I feel I am accompanying Marina, in a tiny way, sending her 'good vibrations', and visualizing her in the 'golden light' as she lives through the challenge she has set herself.
Here is how I looked during my first session today. (click image to enlarge)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
BALANCE AT CLAREMORRIS
September 5 2009
I did this performance at the Claremorris Open Exhibition 2009.
I did this performance at the Claremorris Open Exhibition 2009.
Friday, February 12, 2010
SOME UPDATES
A start to putting up the videos done since I joined Media. Still a good few to add from 2009.
FEBRUARY 11 2010
Experiment with a few images. Need to be more selective in next version.
FEBRUARY 11 2010
Shortest possible video made with just one image (Photo to Movie).
WINTER 20009-10
Camera on tripod. Marks on the floor. Took pictures two or three times a day. Assembled in Photo to Movie.
JULY 7 2009
Images taken by Laurence from France who helped me to bring down all the boxes from the attic while she practiced her English conversation.
May 2009
This is the first version of the performance BALANCE which took place as part of our end of 3rd year exhibition in the Back Loft Gallery.
The theme os the performance is an invitation to viewers to symbolically experience the unpredictability of daily living
MARCH 2009
This was originally a looping video reflecting the variability of mood-swings
JULY 2008
The music in this video was recorded on the last day of the camino, on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostella in Northwest Spain. Would love to find out who these people were who visited the Cathedral July 2008.
The outfit and the sticks are what I wore for the ten-day trek.
If you would like to read more, click Camino trip
The art-focus of the video-performance is a demonstration of the used of theatre lights in making art. I found them a lot more difficult to manage than studio lights, but the stage-space was a wonderful place to perform.
MAY 2008
I never get tired of capturing sunshine on camera. Most of my pictures are taken with my 5 megapixel Nokia cameraphone N95, and most times I used the sports setting to reduce the camera shake that comes with advancing age, and impatience to get the shot without having time to set up a tripod. (anyway the phone is on a string around my neck, and doesn't have a tripod fitting!)
DECEMBER 2007
Unbelieveably, this is based on a true story told to me by Tony himself.
APRIL 30 2007
Not many people get to light and blow out the entire 70 candles on their birthday. It was a delight. I also remembered the names of those born the same day as me, and had my Christening robe there which is now part of the robe in which my children and grandchildren were christened.
APRIL 2007
I'm afraid the video is a bit jerky, not like the original. Maybe some day, I'll do a better edit. But not today!
FEBRUARY 11 2010
Experiment with a few images. Need to be more selective in next version.
FEBRUARY 11 2010
Shortest possible video made with just one image (Photo to Movie).
WINTER 20009-10
Camera on tripod. Marks on the floor. Took pictures two or three times a day. Assembled in Photo to Movie.
JULY 7 2009
Images taken by Laurence from France who helped me to bring down all the boxes from the attic while she practiced her English conversation.
May 2009
This is the first version of the performance BALANCE which took place as part of our end of 3rd year exhibition in the Back Loft Gallery.
The theme os the performance is an invitation to viewers to symbolically experience the unpredictability of daily living
MARCH 2009
This was originally a looping video reflecting the variability of mood-swings
JULY 2008
The music in this video was recorded on the last day of the camino, on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostella in Northwest Spain. Would love to find out who these people were who visited the Cathedral July 2008.
The outfit and the sticks are what I wore for the ten-day trek.
If you would like to read more, click Camino trip
The art-focus of the video-performance is a demonstration of the used of theatre lights in making art. I found them a lot more difficult to manage than studio lights, but the stage-space was a wonderful place to perform.
MAY 2008
I never get tired of capturing sunshine on camera. Most of my pictures are taken with my 5 megapixel Nokia cameraphone N95, and most times I used the sports setting to reduce the camera shake that comes with advancing age, and impatience to get the shot without having time to set up a tripod. (anyway the phone is on a string around my neck, and doesn't have a tripod fitting!)
DECEMBER 2007
Unbelieveably, this is based on a true story told to me by Tony himself.
APRIL 30 2007
Not many people get to light and blow out the entire 70 candles on their birthday. It was a delight. I also remembered the names of those born the same day as me, and had my Christening robe there which is now part of the robe in which my children and grandchildren were christened.
APRIL 2007
I'm afraid the video is a bit jerky, not like the original. Maybe some day, I'll do a better edit. But not today!
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
RESUMING THE BLOG
Yesterday, I handed in my thesis, written, printed and bound. That's 20% of my work out of the way.
Unfortunately, I spent over 50% of my time on it, and broke many of Madeline's recommendations:
She said: Don't let it take over your life. It took over my life.
She said: Perfectionism prevents Production - it does
She said: Overactivity leads to Underactivity - that's partly why I was so slow in getting to grips with it.
The other reason was the level at which I was stressing myself, throughout the whole period since last June.
The one thing I did right is the most important - I beat the system insofar as I got it in on time, and I'm as passionate as ever about the theme I wrote on, namely Ilya Kabakov as a person.
So next task is the studio work.
But first, I'm going to read back on this blog to see what did I used to be saying to myself all that time ago - really, I haven't used it for over a year.
Unfortunately, I spent over 50% of my time on it, and broke many of Madeline's recommendations:
She said: Don't let it take over your life. It took over my life.
She said: Perfectionism prevents Production - it does
She said: Overactivity leads to Underactivity - that's partly why I was so slow in getting to grips with it.
The other reason was the level at which I was stressing myself, throughout the whole period since last June.
The one thing I did right is the most important - I beat the system insofar as I got it in on time, and I'm as passionate as ever about the theme I wrote on, namely Ilya Kabakov as a person.
So next task is the studio work.
But first, I'm going to read back on this blog to see what did I used to be saying to myself all that time ago - really, I haven't used it for over a year.
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