19 Feb Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke
Reassuring words written by Rainer Maria Rilke as an antidote to those spells of disillusionment. Rilke wrote: "You must not compare yourself to others [...
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18 Feb Exploratory research – Part 1
FFF -> Labyrinths -> Cast Shadows -> Ariadne's red thread -> Red Coat??? The Red Coat is the starting point and in an effort to stay experimental I'll deviate wildly. I'm resisting the urge to plan. I've taken time to research red and coats. Thrown cohort...
15 Feb CHAIR: an exhibition by Mary A. Kelly
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda Co. Louth In the 1940's this was a church where my father served mass as an altar boy. He lost his job after being a bit vigorous with the incense thurible and setting the rug on fire. Highlanes as a Church Highlanes as a temple...
13 Feb Cast Shadows – Photo experiments
Having glued a pair of the little people onto a piece of card I used various light sources to make different cast shadow images. As I was just pointing, shooting and messing with light I didn't really think about the narrative. But it was...
11 Feb L’itoi – the man in the maze.
The three images above are titled L'itoi, the man in the maze. They are a continuation of the work I have been doing with cast shadows and little figures. L'itoi is a deity from an O'odham (Native American Indian) tribe based in the Southwest US)....
04 Feb A new show in London, on the theme of Labyrinths
My brother sent me this article yesterday. And Bob also sent me the link after I posted this, how's that for delicious synchronicity! A show opening in the Large Glass. It's unlikely that I will get to see it in person but it may be...
01 Feb The Mapping Presentation
Petroglyph portrait A self portrait is a map of the person. This mapping began with the deconstructed petroglyphic self portrait. The lino cut glyphs formed the categories and areas to map. A jumping off point. Always moving, there are no fixed points as I travel in...
27 Jan Systems for mapping – Fludd, Klint & Mullican.
While creating the map I stumbled across 3 different artists that visually gelled with the appearance of my own. Robert Fludd, Cosmic Imagery (Utriuesque Cosmi) 1617 Robert Fludd was an English Occult Philosopher with interests in science. He was labelled by his contemporaries as a magician and...
23 Jan A workshop about writing about making
Form: Monotone colour with positive and negative areas of light. A pair of ready-made small plastic models cast a shadow across the pages of a book. Process: An experimental photograph taken in the studio capturing the cast shadow of a pair of plastic figures in sunlight....
22 Jan Where’s me map at??
Mapping with annotations So after I stuck down all the bits, the act of sticking and being with it triggered more thoughts. Seen here in black marker across the diagram. Then I took the weekend off. My brother and his kids were coming to stay for...