From today’s journal:
Laura’s image holds up a mirror to my own to reveal what is outside the frame, namely me, the photographer. For me, seen together, the diptych asks, “Where are you?” What is your position within the photographs you take? What is your position within the collected personal images which form your on line archive?
‘As far as spatiality is concerned, […] one’s own body is the third term, always tacitly understood, in the figure-background structure, and every figure stands out against the double horizon of external and bodily space’ (Merleau-Ponty 1962)
Notions of place and identity feel central to my practice-led research at the moment. As a Canadian studying abroad I am in the real-world landscape foreign to my own and in addition, the images I am working with are part of an often foreign-feeling virtual landscape.
On line image exchange with Laura O’Brien here:
http://imagesinformingthought.carbonmade.com/
Images from recent weeklong project in cooperation with Buren College of Art, Ireland.
Solarplate workshop and ‘time and location’ exploration organized by David Ferry and Laura Lillie, Cardiff School of Art and Design.
I am very excited about the self portrait image dialogue I have undertaken with Becka Viau at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Canada.
Among other things, I enjoy seeing how the same project can feed into completely different research paths.
Check out Becka’s current tact and I will keep you posted on mine.
self portrait image dialogue with becka on flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/69299829@N08/
other images in dialogue – donnalee:
http://imagesinformingthought.carbonmade.com/
becka’s current research as it relates to in our place:
http://proximityanddistance.wordpress.com/studio-r…
Forgetting and remembering.
I am fascinated by Sam Firth’s current project as discussed here at anwww.a-n.co.uk/p/2069921/
www.a-n.co.uk/p/2069921/
and reading her blog
http://staythesamefilm.com/
led to some interesting reading on memory and related contemporary practices. For this I am most greatful.
I also found something interesting in my sketchbook this weekend. I was astounded by the fact that one of the few notes I made during my recent trip to Ireland was not consciously remembered when I wrote post #44 upon my return.
The in-box is full today including word from Lori Joy Smith that she has completed my abandoned piece – two re-purposed drawers in girl pink and boy blue.
I had started a photo archive of my ‘boys and girls’ project on carbonmade and the collection is now updated.
http://imagesinformingthought.carbonmade.com/proje…
Many of my pieces are completed over and over again. And sometimes, not by me.
