It's a bit crazy that entry - I was thinking aloud when I wrote it.
And it's still not finished!
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Two days later -
LOOK AGAIN - hopefully the confusion has been sorted and it makes more sense now!
Sunday, August 29, 2010
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.
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