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Reflection

I would like to reflect on my progress as this semester comes to an end. While I initially struggled with finding meaning behind this study of heritage, I finally feel like over the past 13 weeks I have really connected with my family more. I have heard so many stories and really was able to contextualise my experience with intergenerational trauma. My work had some darker underlying themes, such as: trauma, violence, religion and standing with the oppressed which was sometimes hard to portray visually and through text. However, I enjoyed pushing myself with my practice and tackling darker themes. Until next sem...

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Week 12: I Am Stretched On Your Grave Install (2022)

I decided to install this work in a warehouse using split screen and two walls. 

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Week 12: Creating a two-channel installation and a soundscape

For the soundscape, I took this sound by Sinead O’Connor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tcwlCHSdGQ and slowed it down, adding reverb and effects to give the song a more melancholy effect. 

I grew up listening to Sinead so I hold this song very close to me. 

I am stretched on your grave 

And will lie there forever 

If your hands were in mine 

I'd be sure we'd not sever

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Week 12: Animation

Next step is to project this work and create a soundscape to go with it.

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Week 12: Projection installation idea...

This text includes all of the Irishmen who were involved with the IRA from 1916. 

I want to animate this text so that it moves, project it onto the gallery wall as a time-based work.

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Week 11: Welcome to Provo Land Iteration/Installation (2022)

After making my picture book I decided to do an installation of prints to tell the story through another iteration. Instead of having the images side-by-side like the book, I layered the text over the images, printed them, glued them to wood and installed them in the gallery. 

I am really happy with how clean this installation looks. 

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Week 11: Wear Your History Iteration (2022)

Digital documentation of my laser etching onto denim. 

Notes: 

- A form of protest art

- Wearing the protest.

- Connecting with my history by physically wearing it.

- Denim has always been a style of the working class.

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Week 11: Welcome to Provo Land (2022)

This week my book was critiqued in class. One main critique was to change the title. It was originally ‘EAT IT’ but I changed it to Welcome to Provo Land because this was one of the first graffiti signs I saw when I entered Belfast. 

Other notes I took during the critique:

-  Memorabilia 

- Child-like Story of memory 

- Symbolism 

- Emblematic  

- Demonstration of something  

- The whole story means something bigger 

- Invasive Authority 

- Assertion of power Power trip 

- Landscapes and rural images - openness  

- Ambiguity 

- A kids book would show you what was happening in the story 

- It is a finished product - a ‘one’ memory book  

- It contains the story and nothing more 

- Images are fragments  

- Transparency page feels foggy  

- Fleeting 

- Analogue quality 

- Snapshot rather than a composed image 

- Observance of the scene  

- Striking moment of defiance for dad 

- Font stops being playful 

- Totalitarian take over  

- Decaying urban buildings 

- Barron landscapes, emotional spaces connected to the story 

- Who is the nameless, faceless protagonist? 

- What happened leading up to this? Who is this person? Could be allegorical…? Although allegory is usually longer. Chapter one? 

- Window time difference  

- Bleak, feeling disjointed — is literally present in the work I express that sense of separation within this work 

- The whole story is a glimpse: narratively, visually  

- Different title? Change the title. 

- Two experiences present Duality: text and image, generations, narratives 

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Week 11: Wear Your History (2022) - Wall installation.

Second installation idea was pinning this onto the gallery wall at uni and documenting it. I think I prefer it on the floor because it feels more like a murder scene.

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Week 11: Bua Nó Bás  Iteration. I have decided to title this work Wear Your History (2022). 

I laser etched the text into the jacket and laid it on the floor like a crime scene. The ‘murder tape’ style was made with prints so that they can easily be moved around and installed in different ways. 

Where to now? Simple photos wearing the jacket and therefore wearing my history? Install on wall?

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Week 11: Caution tape idea for photoshoot.

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Week 11: Wear Your History (2022)

After struggling with how I felt I fit in with my Irish heritage I decided to laser burn ‘Bua Nó Bás’ into my denim jacket. Where do I go from here? A photoshoot wearing this jacket?

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Week 10: Iteration of Bua Nó Bás (2022)

Using the collage I made last week. I installed it behind the acrylic which gives a glimpse of my family’s life during the 1970s and 80s using scans of original polaroids and film photos.

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Week 10: EAT IT (2022) 

EAT IT was the first piece I made this semester that I felt completely connected to as the images I used were film photos I took while living in Ireland in 2016. The story is one of the many experiences my dad had with the British Army on his way to school when he was a child. The 35mm film images are accompanied by child-like text that eventually mature throughout the book, ending in a graffiti-style text. This development of text style refers to my dad’s childhood into adolescence when he began graffitiing IRA slogans all over Belfast. I do love this work as it feels more personal with a comical sense to it... and I hope I can get it critiqued in this week’s class...

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Week 10: Kate Murphy - Looking to the Future (2006)

- Kate Murphy moved to Ireland to discover more about her family and her heritage.

- While living in a vastly different environment to Australia, she discovered other hobbies and became very interested in the rich Irish history of spirituality and superstition.

- While star signs and palm-readers are popular ‘hotlines for instant answers’, Murphy believes that the nature of this superstition is built on fear.

- This artwork is told by an intriguing Irish psychic who has an extrasensory perception on Murphy’s ancestors and future. The interview-inspired scenes consists of the artist beginning to cry as the psychic tells her ancestor’s story.

- Murphy wears a Christmas hat as it represents a typical family event when everyone was brought together; however, the feature of this hat has a darker expression of the deaths of relatives and those who did not make it to Christmas.

- When I was living in Ireland I noticed that my family spoke a lot about death and relatives who had passed. What was strange though is that they spoke about them as if they were still alive. I became very quickly fascinated with this aspect of my culture as death was so often discussed at the dinner table - an unusual discussion to have while drinking, eating and enjoying our time together. This is why I can so strongly resonate with Murphy’s work as she too discusses the themes of death in her Irish heritage. 

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Week 10: Artist research - Rebecca Belmore. Untitled, 1,2,3, 2004.

- Rebecca Belmore creates politically charged works that explore themes of indigeneity, colonialism and the human body. 

- In Untitled 1, 2 and 3, Belmore displays a body bound by white bedsheets. 

- Pain and suffering - tortured form of the crucified Jesus Christ in the Bernini sculpture. 

- At another look of this work - the pointed toes and carefully draped hands of the figures in Belmore’s images has presented these tortured bodies in graceful, peaceful poses, giving them a sense of tranquility and serenity.

- I am personally interested in the composition of these works. The stark white cloth against the white gallery wall creates a sense of dualism between the art and the space. 

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Week 10: EAT IT (2022)

Iteration of my print work.

I had so much fun designing this picture book! Considering this incident happened to my dad when he was only 10-years-old, I found it important to portray the story in a child-like way. That is why I decided to create a picture book. This is a screenshot of me designing the 20-page book and tomorrow I will get to pick it up.