Mud season calls for a week away from this place. The reading materials for my next research packet will keep me busy. Lucy Lippard's Lure of the Local examines the topics near and dear to my heart. It will be good to step away from the interviewing and portraits. I will review materials. Distance and being in another culture offers some perspective on what I am gaining from my interviews, what insights.
While in Ireland I asked myself the interview questions in relation to my experiences in Ireland, past and the 2010 week. I love county Clare. It is a magical special place like no other. The mystique is a matter of experiences and authenticity. Like Moosehead It carries nostalgia but its significance is not just historical and landscape: Yeats' tower and Lady Gregory's gardens, the Cliffs of Moher, Lahinch's beach surfing or Ennistymon's falls. The places and experiences continue to touch people's lives in a special way. Experiences bringing awareness of old traditions and custom- to enjoy the qualities of life where time, space and people matter most. This is unique in contemporary life, and I hope it to be in the future.
I enjoyed all the public art in Ireland. We walked city streets, sat in parks, window shopped and visited the National Gallery. Now back in NH I visited a local sculpture gallery/garden. A Mammoth, made of local cranberry grasses, strikingly guards the drive into the gardens. This sculpture was on our friend in Ireland's refrigerator, It is a great piece and I had to visit it. The Mill Brook Gallery and sculpture garden currently has on display in the gallery the faculty from New Hampshire Institute of Art. I love the small ceramic pieces, lovely glazes!
Focused on writing at present so I can edit and than edit some more.
A walk is not just mechanical motion but also a space for critical thinking and creativity. My practice values narrating the geometry of my relationships. My photographs, as well as everyday items, souvenirs and interactions serve as frames that engage my life’s “open spaces” and areas of interest, including land use, domestic identity and social policy.
Moon Rise
View of White Cap Mountain
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
marching into eight
I dropped off prints to the folks I have interviewed, a little thank you for the time and stories they shared. It turned into a busy week despite two cancelations. The one portrait and interview this week offered marvelous new axioms and perspective on this place. I would like to embroider these axioms like old alphabet needlepoint or the proverbs framed and displayed as country kitsch. I spent some time reviewing the use of words with photography by artists like Duane Michaels, Peter Beard, and others. I am seeing them as separate and trying to figure out how I would incorporate them, successfully. Finally I decided upon a mannequin model and ordered there for my installation on North Woods access and land use. Materials form a facinating pile in my studio: official maps, logos, furs, animal parts, equipment parts, work cloths, recreational clothing and more. My pre-pregnancy knickers are serving as structural models of how garments fit the female form. This is fun. The process of working through the project blends humor and concern.
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