seven by five.

the photos that got selected for seven by five exhibition the bell table.all priced €22.22
link to Seven By Five Facebook page

black lights

engulfed

inside a gas chamber

no effects on the photo

on display

screening Face Your Fears,And Win in Limerick city.

I was given a brief to find a location within the city center to show my video in. the location had to fit with the context of the video.
initially I wanted to use a prison cell, to relate to the confinement of your own mind. but they where having none of me. I then tried the drunk tank in, but go the same, a fat no. I then looked for a elevator with a screen in it, be cause I can feel quite claustrophobic inside a life, again, relating to some times feel claustrophobic with in your own head and having no way out. I couldn't find a lift with a screen in it though.
So I tried a second hand shop notorious for being messy and having shit EVERYWHERE. its also quite a small shop so fitting all 15 or so sculpture students and tutors in made it quite uncomfortable and cramped. this was perfect the people who where browsing in the shop where trapped with my video weather they liked it or not.

my handsome self at the screening

Face Your Fears ,and Win

Face Your Fears and Win

What I have learned through meditation, is that your consciousness (some would call it your spirit) can leave your body and travel to astral planes. This made me think of the afterlife. Where does the spirit go then?

Stress, causes me to feel anxious and in extreme cases, suffer from panic attacks, which feels like a lack of oxygen.

Smoke from fire can contain products that do not cause direct harm to you, but that take up the space needed for oxygen. Carbon dioxide, for instance, acts in this way, however;

” A single mature tree can absorb carbon dioxide at a rate of 48 lbs. per year and release enough oxygen back into the atmosphere to support 2 human beings”[1].

Yet trees can also be destroyed by fire.

Water can quench fire, in turn extinguishing the smoke, but, while drowning, the lungs to fill with water. Humans can't breath under water. Yet people are about 60% water.
We are all just part of the same thing. Something MUCH bigger.
Death is only the beginning.

These panic attacks, can easily be solved by just relaxing ,exhalling and taking deep slow breaths from the belly.

Like if you were to take your head out of the water and just breathe. Or leave the place full of smoke, and just breathe.

Taking typical scenes of tranquillity in nature, I intend to create bursts of frantic uneasiness, and relaxed atmospheres.By making the natural seem supernatural,or uberreal,
I can put my audience into a nighmareish headspace or a meditive mood.

I have used only my breathing ,wood and water, to make the sound effects.

Sound naturally evokes an emotional response and along with the images I chose , the sound paints a picture in the mind’s eye, your door to the spirit world.

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[1]  McAliney, Mike. Arguments for Land Conservation: Documentation and Information Sources for Land Resources Protection, Trust for Public Land, Sacramento, CA, December, 1993

panic

another day trying out and testing premier pro. learning by doing.

video entry for the RTE angeles

click for link to angeles video

four screen test

first try at premier pro

Waterlogged

foggy sunday

 simply some photos from the walk to the reclaimed totem