The Invisible Dog

This location between a court house and a Garda station was tricky for a re-homing, so I had to come up with an alternative solution:

 

and here's the original:

4th October 2010, 1.03pm. Old woman talking Irish to an invisible dog. Charcoal and gesso on inkjet print.

Loo lunch

Second re-homing completed - more on this project here.

7th March 2011 6.30pm, Somebody's lunch back in the loo.

Here's the original:

7th October 2010, 8.05pm. Somebody's Lunch in the Loo. Inkjet print and post-it note.

Not sure what this piece says about me - that I like to associate myself with toilets in art colleges perhaps :)

Returning the Gem to the Gem

One my earlier projects involved going around the city noticing things - just random stuff, big or small things that struck me for whatever reason-  and making a note of these. After a week or so of this, I went back to the sites to photograph them, and then worked on the resulting photographs. This is the last leg of the process: returning the images to the original sites. This the Gem returning back to the Gem:

 I went out in the middle of the night feeling like a criminal skulking in the corners and got it on all wrinkly in my nervousness, so I went back in broad daylight and re-did it. Nobody paid a blind bit of attention to what I was doing - I'll definetely stick to daylight hours in the future!

 Here's the original:

7th Oct 2010, 9.05pm. The Gem, Mixed Media on inkjet print, 2010

I was never too sure why I was doing these images, apart from vague political motivations - dereliction, dole queues etc feature in them. But having completed this step it is starting to make sense -  a  process of trying to take ownership of and putting a bit of me back into a city that has never really felt like home.

One down, eleven to go!