SYMBIOTIC MUTUALISM
Exploring the interrelationships between the urban and natural environment through a prism of "Symbiotic Mutualism" capturing the visual, emotional and sensory benefits us mere human bystanders gain from this complex and long standing relationship. Feeling almost like a voyeur I explore the urban landscape photographing detail, texture, form and sounds from which I construct semi abstract landscapes that aim to capture this spirit of a place rather than a slavish representation.
Final outcomes where created using a mix of my "image ingredients" and a mix of digital print, photolithography and screen printing. All imagery is derived from my own original on site photography, these were then edited down to focus on the texture, pattern and form. This visual ingredients list has then been used via digital print, photolithography and screen printing to explore perspective, reflection, layering, over printing and colour to evoke the spirit of a complex 3D world into 2D imagery.
Contact Details: Bronagh Kennedy
Email: [email protected]
Visual Blog
All images are the copyright of Bronagh Kennedy and may not be downloaded, copied, or resused in any medium or format without prior consent. 2021
Final outcomes where created using a mix of my "image ingredients" and a mix of digital print, photolithography and screen printing. All imagery is derived from my own original on site photography, these were then edited down to focus on the texture, pattern and form. This visual ingredients list has then been used via digital print, photolithography and screen printing to explore perspective, reflection, layering, over printing and colour to evoke the spirit of a complex 3D world into 2D imagery.
Contact Details: Bronagh Kennedy
Email: [email protected]
Visual Blog
All images are the copyright of Bronagh Kennedy and may not be downloaded, copied, or resused in any medium or format without prior consent. 2021
ABOVE IMAGES : ALL THE IMAGES ABOVE HAVE BEEN CREATED USING A MIX OF DIGITALLY PRINTED BASE IN BLACK AND WHITE OVERLAYED WITH SCREEN PRINTING IN GOLD AND GREEN INKS.
BELOW IMAGES : CREATED USING A BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOLITHOGRAPY BASE OVERPRINTED WITH SCREEN PRINTING.
A COLLABORATION WITH THE LANDSCAPE - PART ONE
A collaborative project between me the Artist and the landscape, exploring the interrelationship between the permanent and the transient/ephemeral.
Location based studies where the landscape is both the subject and participant in the creative process focusing primarily on the passage of time and the path of the sun and documenting the progress of light and shadow. The following images were created on site in both my back garden and at Bexhill in Kent. I wanted to capture a moment in time and used cyanotype coated paper in situ, placed and exposed in strategic locations within the landscape to capturing and imortalise a specific geographical location. The first project "In the Shade of the Cordyline" takes the process into a physical world by scanning the cyanotype, digitally editing it then creating a wood block using laser etching techniques. Taking the process from physical world to a digital world and back to a physical object.
Location based studies where the landscape is both the subject and participant in the creative process focusing primarily on the passage of time and the path of the sun and documenting the progress of light and shadow. The following images were created on site in both my back garden and at Bexhill in Kent. I wanted to capture a moment in time and used cyanotype coated paper in situ, placed and exposed in strategic locations within the landscape to capturing and imortalise a specific geographical location. The first project "In the Shade of the Cordyline" takes the process into a physical world by scanning the cyanotype, digitally editing it then creating a wood block using laser etching techniques. Taking the process from physical world to a digital world and back to a physical object.
A COLLABORATION WITH THE LANDSCAPE - PART TWO
All the following images were created in situ along the Kent coastline between Bexhill and Norman's Bay on 27th April 2021 between 10:30 and 11:30am on a couldless sunny spring day. All cyanotype papers were prepared before hand then place in various locations of interest along the coast. Exposure times were between 5-8 minutes. It was totally experimental with mixed results and a technique I wanted to explore further through the summer months, but for the following weeks the great British summer thwarted progress as the sun barely shone again for weeks and weeks and weeks.
COLLABORATION WITH THE LANDSCAPE - PART 3 -
VIDEO AND TIMELAPSE
Below is a selection of experimental vidoe and timelapse capturing the moments of interaction between the man made and nature, creating never to be repeated works of accidental art.
ABOVE: "The Shadow Dancers of Woodberry Down".
This video captures a snap shot of time when the direction of the sun, the gentle breeze combine with the shadows of the weeds dancing gently in silhouette on the tarpaulin of a construction site. A moment of delight that reminded me of a shadow puppet show I saw in vietnam many years ago.
This video captures a snap shot of time when the direction of the sun, the gentle breeze combine with the shadows of the weeds dancing gently in silhouette on the tarpaulin of a construction site. A moment of delight that reminded me of a shadow puppet show I saw in vietnam many years ago.
ABOVE: "The Swaying Palms of Red Square".
This timelapse video of the path of the shadow of a potted palm tree on my garden fence was recorded over a three hour period on 20th April 2021 between 11:15 - 14:15pm. Recording the usually imperceptable shift of the shadow on the wall and the sun moves. The process is speeded up to cover one minute and the sound track records the various noises that afternoon of birds tweeting, planes overhead and the conversations of the neightbours. The images below are a visual record of the noises I recorded whilst I sat.
This timelapse video of the path of the shadow of a potted palm tree on my garden fence was recorded over a three hour period on 20th April 2021 between 11:15 - 14:15pm. Recording the usually imperceptable shift of the shadow on the wall and the sun moves. The process is speeded up to cover one minute and the sound track records the various noises that afternoon of birds tweeting, planes overhead and the conversations of the neightbours. The images below are a visual record of the noises I recorded whilst I sat.
ABOVE: "A Tale of Two Cities" Play both videos at the same time!
The Woodberry Downs Estate has been in a phase of modernisation and renewal for the past 7 years or so which creates a start contrast between old and new. These two videos were recorded literally about 50metresfrom each other and 5 minutes apart. FIRST the demolition of the high rise “Homes of the Future” blocks built in 1947.
The new face of Woodberry Downs that some locals have refused to “State Sponsored Gentrification” personally I know which environment I prefer and which has provided a much richer environment for residents and locals alike. Anyway I don’t generally do politics in my work but this has been an interesting exercise. Maybe it’ll go somewhere ? I would like to take this further and create a split screen video collage of these.
The Woodberry Downs Estate has been in a phase of modernisation and renewal for the past 7 years or so which creates a start contrast between old and new. These two videos were recorded literally about 50metresfrom each other and 5 minutes apart. FIRST the demolition of the high rise “Homes of the Future” blocks built in 1947.
The new face of Woodberry Downs that some locals have refused to “State Sponsored Gentrification” personally I know which environment I prefer and which has provided a much richer environment for residents and locals alike. Anyway I don’t generally do politics in my work but this has been an interesting exercise. Maybe it’ll go somewhere ? I would like to take this further and create a split screen video collage of these.
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