Vertical Stratification Series, 2020
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This is a series of drawings I developed during our first national lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic whilst on a residency spending 7 weeks living and researching in west Cork.
They are made using burnt stems of gorse that I harvested after a gorse fire incinerated a large portion of vegetation along a walk I took everyday. They combine the landscape of Glengarriff with a superimposition of my studio wall in Dublin, creating a unique cohesive surface of two paradoxical places.
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I began the charcoal rubbings when I moved back to Dublin after the residency in Cork. Using the studio wall as an additional surface, I created a sense of friction - drawing the burnt stems of the plant along the old woodchip wallpaper of the new space.
They combine the landscape of Glengarriff with a superimposition of my studio wall, creating a unique cohesive surface of two paradoxical places. I am constantly building up the layers moving from wall to wall to table, developing this subtle marriage of sites through these vertical layers of stratification and additions of mixed media.
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This idea of standing stratification and foliated matter created from the toing and froing between surfaces in the studio is a key part of the process. Vertical exploration as a research praxis is something that I am interested in whilst engaging in a somatic practice of walking.
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Together for me, this series acts as markers or measurements of passing time.
This is a series of drawings I developed during our first national lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic whilst on a residency spending 7 weeks living and researching in west Cork.
They are made using burnt stems of gorse that I harvested after a gorse fire incinerated a large portion of vegetation along a walk I took everyday. They combine the landscape of Glengarriff with a superimposition of my studio wall in Dublin, creating a unique cohesive surface of two paradoxical places.
I began the charcoal rubbings when I moved back to Dublin after the residency in Cork. Using the studio wall as an additional surface, I created a sense of friction - drawing the burnt stems of the plant along the old woodchip wallpaper of the new space.
They combine the landscape of Glengarriff with a superimposition of my studio wall, creating a unique cohesive surface of two paradoxical places. I am constantly building up the layers moving from wall to wall to table, developing this subtle marriage of sites through these vertical layers of stratification and additions of mixed media.
This idea of standing stratification and foliated matter created from the toing and froing between surfaces in the studio is a key part of the process. Vertical exploration as a research praxis is something that I am interested in whilst engaging in a somatic practice of walking.
Together for me, this series acts as markers or measurements of passing time.
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