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Some more primary research for my Semester 2 Project "Movement"
I'm choosing to focus my project on my Train Journey from Limerick to Dublin and back, it is a journey I am well accustomed to as I take it every week to get home for the weekends.



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For our first week back for semester two, it was based on collecting primary research for our project "Movement".
I'm choosing to focus on my Train Journey from Limerick To Dublin as it's a trip I take every week.
For my primary research, this weekend I spent the train journey looking out the windows and capturing images of the blurry fields I passed as well as some of the stops my train passes through.
From these images, I would like to try using photoshop (which I was recommended) to layer some of these images on top of each other.





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PERFORMANCE PIECE FOR PROJECT ASSEMBLE
In this video, I wrote on a piece of paper "God when will I be saved? Mother take me into your arms". I have never felt too close to God like some people do, but I have always admired these people. I have admired them but I also envy them. I envy having a community who all believe in being saved through prayer and devotion. I attended a mass service over Christmas and although I am not religious anymore like how I used to be, I felt really comfortable sitting around all these people and listening to what was being said. However comfortable I felt though, I still didn't feel like I belonged there. I always wonder how much belief it will take me to really feel like I have a place in the modern Roman Catholic Church. By modern I mean a community who accepts everyone as they come, who won't judge me or others by how we look, portray ourselves, our gender or sexuality. Who all they want is for me to be safe around them and feel as if I am meant to be there, standing alongside them and knowing that nothing can go wrong as long as I believe. I don't believe in God, but I would love to be convinced.
In this video, I'm showing the viewer the piece of paper, putting it in my mouth and chewing it. I did this to show somewhat of how I felt when I used to go to church regularly. I have never been a particularly normal child, by that I mean I was very emotional and often fell into pits of depression and mania. I used to try and go to the church near my house to help me escape these feelings but I never felt "saved" when I prayed alongside everyone else. I felt rejected almost. Like nothing I did was enough. I felt God hated me for not following his ways better than I did. I felt like I didn't deserve to be there as much as everyone else did. At the end of the video, I spit the piece of paper back into my hand as a way of showing me being spat out by the church. Being thought of as meaningless as the chewed up, soggy paper in my hand.
I chose to cover the song "Take Me To Church" by Hozier as I have always felt a connection to the lyrics he sings. Whether that be in general life or when I am feeling at a low. They validate and justify my emotions and regulate me to feel like I am not going insane and am safe and real.
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joined the zine workshop.
learnt about the risograph
the initial drawing will turn out the darker print colour and the tracing paper turns out the lighter colour.
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where are these places? who goes here? what happens here ?
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