I am really delighted and honoured to have been included in the relaunch edition of Edge Zine. Having spent the last few years photographing ripples, lakes, canals and sea the theme of ‘water’ felt like an absolute gift! I came across the notion of ‘Hydrofeminism’ (Neimanis, 2012) a while ago and was immediately fascinated by… Read More →
Author: Dawn
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Exploring death and the digital afterlife
We cannot not leave traces (Merzeau, 2009) Having initially explored decollage and digital decollage I felt I had not quite got to where I wanted. I liked the final images but the digital versions in particular, had become too stylized and lost some of their depth and ‘edge’. In parallel I had been working on… Read More →
Collaborating: thank you Catherine Banks
It struck me that in my digital afterlife I will not be the one manipulating or appropriating my images. In order to experience what this might mean I asked Catherine, a fellow OCA student and my co-curator on the ‘Time’ exhibition, if she might consider responding to my work. I asked her to work with… Read More →
Book forms
More experimenting with different book forms. A couple of prototypes to be developed further. I was intrigued by the adapted form of the concertina book as a next stage in the Digital Morte series. It has potential for connecting to metaphors of links and threads, it might also be possible to adapt it to use… Read More →
Exploring formats
Moving to a project sketchbook format as part of my digital afterlife project was surprisingly liberating. I am intrigued this was provided by a format that I had not necessarily found easy before now. I have also noticed from the bookmaking workshop at the Thames Valley Group last year, and some of the artists I… Read More →
Digital Objects of the Dead: Negotiating electronic remains
Bereavement means the experience of deprivation and loss (Moller, 1996) and ‘grief is the primarily emotional reaction to the loss of a loved one.’ (Stroebe & Schut, 1998) Human response to loss is not genetically determined but culturally learned. (DeSpelder & Strickland, 1996) The article begins by highlighting the socially constructed nature of grieving and… Read More →
Open Art Collective: Time
It seems fitting that an exhibition on the theme of time is also bounded by the concept. The walls are empty and white again, the next exhibitors are unwrapping their precious cargo and our collective works are consigned to the parameters. My pieces were very much about this flow of time and the nature of… Read More →
Daisuke Yokota
There are no stories in my work. There is only what the viewers find within it for themselves. I am more interested in exploring time and multiple possibilities that exist in reality. One artist I am aware I keep coming back to, is Daisuke Yokota and I am grateful to Russell Murray for introducing me… Read More →
Dreams of a life
In one of my online searches into ‘traces’ I came across the documentary ‘Dreams of a Life.’ It is based on the story of Joyce Vincent who died in 2003. Directed by Carol Morley it takes the form of talking heads of those who knew her and dramatisations of some life events. Her family declined… Read More →
Lens Culture submission feedback
It was with some trepidation that I clicked the link that said my Lens Culture feedback was available. I submitted a series a couple of years ago and found the feedback very helpful. I am now more confident about showing my work to others but for the most part this is to other artists and… Read More →