Navigators Project – Sarah Chalkie Cloonan

Week 15: Stills. Crop positions and print

Indesign does the job, the stills I am printing feel closer to want I wanted to achieve. Filming was a very effective way of gathering a huge amount of information which I then edited to find the images I wanted. Overlaying them in the video clips allowed me to revisit my emotional response to each…

Week 14:Why does a place resonate “They blister up out of space time”.

Thank you Alan Moore head. Alan Moore, why did I not make the connection between these two earlier? I first discovered Alan Moore while endeavouring to engage my children with stories, pictures and writing. Anything to get the homework done. A friend gave me a tip, too pointed for my tender children at that time…

Week 14: When two things collide and get stuck in a Sandwich.

Named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order “the same as Sandwich”. Ideas and execution We are sandwiched between the earth and the sky. We are sandwiched between…

Week 14: Notes. Fluxus & The Gutai Art movement – A Link.

Jackson polark. By BENJAMIN GENOCCHIOAUG. 21, 2009 The Gutai group of postwar Japanese conceptual artists not only made radical abstract paintings with their hands and feet; they also sought to network with similar-minded artists in other parts of the world. One of their efforts to forge these connections is the basis for a curious little…

Week 14: Tearing up the Town.

Writing my Navigators critical essay has been a challenge. It has been torn up a few times made into a collage and then incorporated in a jar I was making/trying to make, my favourite type of making-no rules, feel your way through it. It collapsed I fixed it with my essay and rabbit skin glue…

Week 12: Surfaces change with time.

The ageing processes tells a story. What is the story? I can see clouds in the striations, water in movement, sounds in the waves that take on a circular form.

Week 12: Making sense of the world we live in, finding the narratives.

Week 12: Little bits of blue.

Bits. spaces. Glimpse. Magic moments. Hope. To move forward, rather than drift, you need direction. Light at the end of the tunnel. A light in the woods. Unless like the moth and the candle or Icarus and the Sun You don’t do your research properly and you get burnt. Gaps between the trees. The path…