Outcome 3.1 WIP Painting after second layer of acrylic 28th April Outcome 3 The painting is not complete but my questions are: Which format best conveys the intention of the subject matter. Does the photo create doubt? Like it was a chance out-take. How does...
I came across this exhibition in The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. Originally from El Paso Texas, Reveles lives and works in Wicklow Ireland. The intricacy and detail of his painting and drawings is inspired by the landscape and ideas about infinity, as seen in different...
Every Thursday for the last 6 weeks I have been an artist in residence at the Drogheda Homeless Shelter for men. As a group we were tasked to co-ordinate a number of artworks to 'improve' the environment and to take any willing participants on the...
Intersecting machine stitched lines on the cape This piece began on making day. An exercise on form, structure, thread drawing all related to coat and pertaining to ritual and the space it occupies in practice. The geometric lines are machined, ordered and laid out, though the hand...
As it is so aptly described by Eknath Easwara** I'll start here, "Ritual is the attempt, usually a group attempt, to control power, and sacrifice in particular is the control of that most imposing power which is the life-force. Now interiorization does not...
Cut 1 - 44 words and explanations In a blog post from January 10th I featured 44 monoprints with titles relating to echoes from inside the labyrinth. [There is a love of words within your journal, especially January 10th, could these actually start to infiltrate...
"I've told you my name, now learn my shape, though you already understand it in part. Every doorway has two sides, outward and in, one facing the public, the other the home. And like a doorway seated at your threshold, who watches incomers and outgoers, so I, doorkeeper of the...
Close up fabric forms When all the forms were sewn together each I decided to fill them with different materials. The inside has been displayed outside with seams, threads and tailors marks on display. Salt, Fullers Earth, Wax, Air, ash or soot (yet to be decided) -...
These are the two images I feel work best out of the batch that I took. Wrapping thread and rags around a tree is an old pagan tradition that carried across to catholic rituals. Often the rag tree is situated by a spring or...
A strip of light fractures the otherwise dark surface of the stone. Split in two but still whole. Rough hewn. Larger flat sides command that it's placed a certain way. Lying flat or perched upright on the ugliest face. I count five sides. The white...