This website is mainly to do with the work I did during the time October 2022 to August 24 when I was taking a MA in Fine Art at the Open College of the Arts (OCA), and my themes and practice areas are shown below. It also continues with my work on the MFA in Photography at Belfast College of Art, Ulster University since September 2024.
Memories and Time
Composites
Memories can be called up by all sorts of things, music, art, and even old letters, a wallet in a cardboard box in the attic.
I made composites of the images of myself and artifacts from this period of time in Canada in the 1970s.
Found Poetry
Dry, old science changes to found poetry’
I took pages from my MSc in Physics thesis. selected words or phrases and found new meanings there. The unselected words were concealed with marked acrylic paint, using a gel plate and acrylic ink patterns on collage tissue.
ICM
Intentional Camera Movement
Captures an impression of place and time.
Memories recall an impression of events, and ICM can also leave an impression of place.
Details
from my everyday life
Perec, Miro and Proust advocated observing details of our daily life, as they make up most of it. The mundane, infra-ordinary and endotic are less rare than the exotic, but are the substance of our lives and deserve notice.