tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32993802058842884572024-02-28T22:42:46.729+00:00The lilliputianA photographic blog for the small worlddavid monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.comBlogger176125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-37146195906510414052023-11-18T18:59:00.004+00:002023-11-18T19:07:04.224+00:00A MAUDE GONNE MOMENT<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZ1xguxx28Bslc9timxicSLncBL4URc2cm6c-Wr9dr_ApGh2Zb1qnNA65SLtvsfZJgcS79Wh8jI9oAnJJBNb38Aq19Sdw76_jH342f2rMd2QEX028BjAfFC7UVxp-nsMrseN25r-wDmWTb_IAkTMF76fBFoz0AZFC3V16lHn_I7UqTV5MWWDwZmmlkp4/s4032/IMG_0448.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZ1xguxx28Bslc9timxicSLncBL4URc2cm6c-Wr9dr_ApGh2Zb1qnNA65SLtvsfZJgcS79Wh8jI9oAnJJBNb38Aq19Sdw76_jH342f2rMd2QEX028BjAfFC7UVxp-nsMrseN25r-wDmWTb_IAkTMF76fBFoz0AZFC3V16lHn_I7UqTV5MWWDwZmmlkp4/s320/IMG_0448.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> <b>I seen somebody posting a picture of the full neg of this image on Instagram recently, Its a big neg from a very big camera(life-size image). Well here is one I made on 10x8 of an original contact print from the same negative. </b></span><p></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> At the time I was doing some prep work on photographic items for a big expo at the NLI. When I was approached and asked if I had a solution for a complex problem, it was to make a copy of this and hang it in the show, ( now that might not seem complex but hey so), at the time I think I was shooting a 12mega pixel(mp) digital dslr and the 22mp Hasselblad was still beyond me( I think two years later I got the 39mp H series camera and so my high mp life began) But up to this point it was always based on needs what format you could do a job on . And as it turns out the the 10x8 camera provided us with the solution at this particular time. The camera itself was a gift to me from photographic friend, ( now deceased) Brendan Doyle, Brendan was the photographer at the National Museum since the 70’s through to his late retirement at the age of 70 in the late 90’s, so this kind of kit was hight tech stuff in his day but had started to wane in use as film got better and then as digital took over it faded from view. Now days it is the preserve of the very wealthy photographer as the price of film soars and the availability of processing and scanning shrinks to a few labs worldwide, But back in the day ( this was shot around 2005-6) this was a viable solution.</span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXIES2WgUt2BsKVOGJwV2Vbgdr_W9ytWj2aBnFahugtz5mNzqgLka6oy63_98V2FfKE6__3CMGF3jRvH5aBnQ9VjAyvGGgsJ12drhKdZBHwp84KwCYzyohp8mekQP2BbADjWhOebVjo6OoCw2yFKSxvrSWtq8F_ckQ_OM40ZWJokUuEIG7DIRP381HqV0/s3000/gary-1-3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="2680" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXIES2WgUt2BsKVOGJwV2Vbgdr_W9ytWj2aBnFahugtz5mNzqgLka6oy63_98V2FfKE6__3CMGF3jRvH5aBnQ9VjAyvGGgsJ12drhKdZBHwp84KwCYzyohp8mekQP2BbADjWhOebVjo6OoCw2yFKSxvrSWtq8F_ckQ_OM40ZWJokUuEIG7DIRP381HqV0/s320/gary-1-3.JPG" width="286" /></a></span></b></div><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> Brendan had given me the camera some years earlier ( perhaps around 2001) but it was shy a lens and a very important bellows. It took some years but I acquired a bellows thanks to a college contact David Laudien, who found the needed pieces on German eBay. With the bellows for the camera I felty confident to buy a Schneider 300mm lens on eBay also, it came all the way from California and shocked me when it arrived on account of its sheer beauty. A few film holders and then I was ready to go. So when the request came through to find a solution for the Maude Gonne photo I thought immediately of shooting it on 10x8 transparency. </span></b></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> So a plan was put in place - my good friend Matthew Cains for the Library came across to the National Photographic Archive where the piece was held, unframed the print and brought it on its baseboard into the exhibition space on the ground floor.</span></b></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"> I loaded up 4 or 6 sheets of film below in the darkroom, got the camera in place and lit the work with a couple of Bowens flasheads, balance the lighting, metered for an aperture value and bang the work was done. I am not so sure but I think our good friend Jim Butler of Repro 35 looked after the processing of the film, he definitely had the scans done on an old drum scanner somewhere in Dublin, and after we corrected for the silvering on the base of the print (caused by oxidation over time) he made a fine print ready for the expo.</span></b></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b></b><br /></span></p>
<p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Matthew had concerns about the frame and wanted it restored, so in the meantime he commissioned a duplicate to be manufactured, This was done by my own dear brother Ian. This marked our first collaboration in working together to bring good work to show. It was a tricky task, although the frame was plain in appearance, the method of manufacture was by todays standards complex but Ian like myself Matthew and Jim, rose to the ocassion. Over 20 years later the work is still on show at the Nli permanent expo YEATS:The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats</span></b></p><h1 class="event__title" style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(20, 80, 94); color: #14505e; font-family: var(--font-heading-1); font-size: var(--font-size-h1); font-weight: var(--heading-1-font-weight); grid-column-end: span 8; grid-column-start: 3; line-height: var(--heading-1-line-height); margin-bottom: var(--vertical-rhythm-spacing); margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><br /></h1><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFAf9nbipbKtthtBQkcrH0Bbbg3DQqzVIy1qUUJdQUHL8f79t7txVBjFnGTX4O12WNcI2fY3OV6yDcaFWUuWSgwDxP_Dgo5uURANHVkeoZfpSu5FcfWzocMxzrTvUAPvb53oA2ypobI38SpBs2QARrpLtx5tE367p1uwEmW1vBnoBSo3YmTdAcCBu0hkE/s3000/gary-2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1997" data-original-width="3000" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFAf9nbipbKtthtBQkcrH0Bbbg3DQqzVIy1qUUJdQUHL8f79t7txVBjFnGTX4O12WNcI2fY3OV6yDcaFWUuWSgwDxP_Dgo5uURANHVkeoZfpSu5FcfWzocMxzrTvUAPvb53oA2ypobI38SpBs2QARrpLtx5tE367p1uwEmW1vBnoBSo3YmTdAcCBu0hkE/s320/gary-2.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></span></div><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">So here is the full roll of honour regarding this image, </span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Alfred Werner the image, (life sized from his v big room sized camera)</span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Maude </span></b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Gonne,Sitter</b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>The Photograph was kept safe by the Photographic Society of Ireland</b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Before it was acquired by Grainnne Mac Laughlin for the National library of Irelands National photographic Archive.</b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Conserved by Matthew Cains</b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b>Rephotographed by me on the fab Linhof Kardan Color 10x8 inch </b></span><b style="font-family: arial;">Camera</b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial;">processed by Jim Butler for Repro 35</b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial;">Scanned by ?</b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b style="font-family: arial;">Printed by Repro 35</b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Camera provided by Brendan Doyle, </span></b></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Facilitated by David </span></b><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Laudian</b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>and some man in California</b></span></p><p style="font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 15px;"><br /></p>david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-39401108719145789992023-04-16T18:17:00.008+01:002023-04-16T18:21:17.156+01:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoDOOlM0T5rjq54D6ReySv9dqwHToIzLLG-WHUcVw7Cwo-zGI50UCT1_A0MB1WRM5XIPvrsOBLd-Gt-o3RzqzZmYDx52OteiA7cHgmUToNIeDRw-Zt95caz-OL5y9-znHeZCtk99qk79M/s1600-h/wings.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429617329222216882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoDOOlM0T5rjq54D6ReySv9dqwHToIzLLG-WHUcVw7Cwo-zGI50UCT1_A0MB1WRM5XIPvrsOBLd-Gt-o3RzqzZmYDx52OteiA7cHgmUToNIeDRw-Zt95caz-OL5y9-znHeZCtk99qk79M/s400/wings.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 314px; width: 400px;" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Marker Felt'; font-size: medium; line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> a metaphor for our times</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">this post was first published in 2010 I have just added the second photo inline for my good friend Vukasin</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Early last year i was walking down O'Connell street,Dublin.And I passed a building I had passed Hundreds of times in my life.It was the former main bookings office of Aer lingus,</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the Irish national airline.This was in its day a beautiful example of Irishness, both in its look and in its ambiance.My lasting memory of this office the warmh which exuded from the people who confidently greeted you from behind the the service counter,as they tapped away on their green screens to bring you up to the minute information on pricing and availability of flights out of and into all of the main capitals of Europe and the U.S.A.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The entrance to the this building was beautifully crafted in polished steel and glass,very clean modernist lines,with a large double glass door which effortlessly swung open with the timidest of pushes.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The crowning feature of this design had to be the winged handles.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">You could say this doorway was in itself a beautiful framing of all of Irelands aspirations as it prepared to fly as close to the sun as any other nation could manage.</span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Anyhow, this all changed when in the nineties aer lingus suspended selling seats from this, and all offices and retired to web based sales.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">the Office closed and was never reoccupied.</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So back to the day of my stroll. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In the past I had mused over the possible meanings of the wings being bound in chains but never ever read it as a curse.So on this snowy sunday morning in february 2009 I was shocked to pass the building to find,that not only had the chains been taken from the doors, but the wings too had been removed!Two months later the whole building was gone, around about the same time the country almost ground to a halt as the huge bubble that was the irish property development industry imploded on itself!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Personally I feel saddened that such apretty piece of our past can go almost unlamented.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I can only draw sollace from the fact that on two of the hundreds of times that i passed this way I was carrying a camera to document the passing of this little treasure! </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjClROHwh_t0BWAD_tC8dOBggZl0mGlPdfyNgs03BKmwe_7d-Br7WwAxe6S5xip1F4FoPPasVVm-9xjS27N7EyOrr6dO1Kd6ComcV36qJDSlI8HhLAfZxMuCD3WBL0l1qsIdLuawwKvENhDOGsR-V5N5DbhmmfXfiStQ5FoqTZUMT9h5MI3QOgmOAWm/s1800/g.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1350" data-original-width="1800" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjClROHwh_t0BWAD_tC8dOBggZl0mGlPdfyNgs03BKmwe_7d-Br7WwAxe6S5xip1F4FoPPasVVm-9xjS27N7EyOrr6dO1Kd6ComcV36qJDSlI8HhLAfZxMuCD3WBL0l1qsIdLuawwKvENhDOGsR-V5N5DbhmmfXfiStQ5FoqTZUMT9h5MI3QOgmOAWm/s320/g.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Please comment on this post as it will help shape the content in the future postings</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Kai, serif; font-size: 6;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 24px;"><br /></span></span></div></span></div>david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-5329881138083695632022-04-13T20:49:00.002+01:002022-04-15T21:33:39.052+01:00MISH-MASH<p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKul_KTrlNEGXrilWPk5yKYpE9oA7gMSAcirzl1YXAAxkyGXNX3CihRkVVAKFtI5YYUnntO61IEBPvL3i-tvoI1Qgqa1S1oHFB4vsf5vi2GoFokYb4sNp0f71-DMDoboAZ3Oteors5ElCc__B_CTkJU0K96tCSy66kYBkwdSFpwjl1X9CCcXdqhBD/s5167/david%20monahan-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="5167" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAKul_KTrlNEGXrilWPk5yKYpE9oA7gMSAcirzl1YXAAxkyGXNX3CihRkVVAKFtI5YYUnntO61IEBPvL3i-tvoI1Qgqa1S1oHFB4vsf5vi2GoFokYb4sNp0f71-DMDoboAZ3Oteors5ElCc__B_CTkJU0K96tCSy66kYBkwdSFpwjl1X9CCcXdqhBD/w570-h331/david%20monahan-1.jpg" width="570" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Sometimes you know when things are just right. It has been a while since I have put together a presentation, hung it on a wall and invited all and sundry to come have a look and see what they can see.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Last month I was invited by Karolina, owner of <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mishmashdublin/">Mish_Mash,</a> one of Dublins finest independent coffee shops, to do just that. I have to admit, Although I had one large piece in this years Halftone print fair, in the past couple of years I have been reluctant to put my work out there in a public presentation. But the calm and the attitude that exudes from both Karolina and her place assured me that this was the right time to step up with a series.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioD-_vZnR3bB56MB_VUyJrfkZHNPpCWH-PMskBOCzz1KVkPJAw8nXQhJsWLqlSatXGbxfK0-XRtLHgsLpmpkvJi1FSp_RC1vPISnXV8MbljznSKbeiirBktRrsX9fnuGzxTxN5qrFOwXiOVDhr7q1Td5ndNJED_flhH_8kpCujgyE_zZatTMdFMxwn/s4160/david%20monahan-1-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4160" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioD-_vZnR3bB56MB_VUyJrfkZHNPpCWH-PMskBOCzz1KVkPJAw8nXQhJsWLqlSatXGbxfK0-XRtLHgsLpmpkvJi1FSp_RC1vPISnXV8MbljznSKbeiirBktRrsX9fnuGzxTxN5qrFOwXiOVDhr7q1Td5ndNJED_flhH_8kpCujgyE_zZatTMdFMxwn/s320/david%20monahan-1-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I decided to try and bring the viewer to this virtual space by using two posts from my blog here at the lilliputian.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Because the issue at hand within these post had both local and global dimensions,</div><div style="text-align: center;">it work resonated with Karolina, and so we moved forward.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The idea behind the work may actually not be the work itself, and this, I hope will prove to be the reward for those who take a second look at the pieces and go online to check out the posts that the show points to.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQUrkJam4D9V6gcMlJk7nYSmSqCM76A8C9_yTMFnh3p1J8QkCA8Swl74tmkf6UGdTJce5xb1Rx-Pq5U3B5WAgPnY-EEf8ojP-_z7Z75fAq0jJpFKKViUrZEQXOM41gv03W0CCCKY3_OhOc6lZp5wx4RdSRn54aXIaswPhDZPRHCujuqtiFJfK7HFbm/s3871/david%20monahan-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="3871" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQUrkJam4D9V6gcMlJk7nYSmSqCM76A8C9_yTMFnh3p1J8QkCA8Swl74tmkf6UGdTJce5xb1Rx-Pq5U3B5WAgPnY-EEf8ojP-_z7Z75fAq0jJpFKKViUrZEQXOM41gv03W0CCCKY3_OhOc6lZp5wx4RdSRn54aXIaswPhDZPRHCujuqtiFJfK7HFbm/s320/david%20monahan-3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The work aims to demonstrate how the written word can effect the meaning, or indeed refine and concentrate the meaning of a series of photographs.</div><div style="text-align: center;">The work itself tries to distract at the surface and uses the thinly veiled disguise of typology</div><div style="text-align: center;">to hang the work as a series of similars. It succeeds at this I feel, and therefor will entertain the casual glance. However if one follows the crumbs dropped in the space - if one wants to seek out another meaning of the work - one can be taken off in a completely different direction - a direction that points at nasty side of human nature - mans ability to take advantage of an unfortunate situation.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBFyGos_cEC5wHhWPLsRgQc1ILZai1c9buiwmDliifjrnZFl1dgjjR5xE3wvHkb9BCyG1T4SkGJz9oCi2iplh8V9mNSl8oH57_-TtOXzjaEibG5H2ki19prD7BW91Nq4kbDLROsPZnlcUwPp2MresoRJ1gkm_9rk8Q11S1yGV2SMKDH5mdS4BxyWq2/s1181/dmon_covidfingers-1-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBFyGos_cEC5wHhWPLsRgQc1ILZai1c9buiwmDliifjrnZFl1dgjjR5xE3wvHkb9BCyG1T4SkGJz9oCi2iplh8V9mNSl8oH57_-TtOXzjaEibG5H2ki19prD7BW91Nq4kbDLROsPZnlcUwPp2MresoRJ1gkm_9rk8Q11S1yGV2SMKDH5mdS4BxyWq2/s320/dmon_covidfingers-1-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maps.apple.com/place?q=Mish.Mash&ll=53.3500201%2C-6.2692103&auid=10202824730731411121&lsp=9902&address=66%20Capel%20St%2C%20Dublin%201%2C%20D01%20X7H2%2C%20Ireland" target="_blank">Mish Mash </a>is for me one of the calmest spaces in Dublin </div><div style="text-align: center;">If you have not been I invite you to have a visit while my work is </div><div style="text-align: center;">hanging here. I am looking forward to reaction to the works </div><div style="text-align: center;">and I am now happy to show once more in public,</div><div style="text-align: center;">and I am delighted to find that this is the ideal place to return to the </div><div style="text-align: center;">public domain with my artworks, and look forward to showing </div><div style="text-align: center;">many times more in the coming years as my work evolves </div><div style="text-align: center;">and I finish the series I am currently working on.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Keep your eye open here for news of upcoming events</div><div style="text-align: center;">and at <a href="http://davidmonahan.eu">davidmonahan.eu</a> for new series.</div><div style="text-align: center;">And remember a great coffee is waiting for you at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/mishmashdublin/">MISH MASH</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-2033147380290301432021-01-20T14:42:00.016+00:002021-01-21T18:24:29.998+00:00MY COVID FINGERS<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBQi4HCNMi91EqqkV_7MDBOU5Ge0mrWdVs-hlXYTBx-S2dKbdl9Ft_Cw8JU6G27bfj4bVz6MZYo8-2GqfKPRru2abNEYW22XPZ_vhNx4DGXD_9PfZXAqcTgkfu8heX3HtOYaw1UW66qlI/s2048/dmon_covidfingers-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="608" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBQi4HCNMi91EqqkV_7MDBOU5Ge0mrWdVs-hlXYTBx-S2dKbdl9Ft_Cw8JU6G27bfj4bVz6MZYo8-2GqfKPRru2abNEYW22XPZ_vhNx4DGXD_9PfZXAqcTgkfu8heX3HtOYaw1UW66qlI/w608-h608/dmon_covidfingers-1.jpg" width="608" /></a></div><p>One day last week I had my reading glasses on and I glanced down at my hands, ( just to check in disbelief that I actually needed this focal aid) Anyhow with the ability to focus I noticed that my fingers bore the scars of a life lived and wondered how many of the marks and nicks had been experienced over the last year of extreme washing and cleaning, or was there a longer timeline involved in the marking up of my prints!</p><p>I was listening to the radio a day or two after and I heard an interview with a man of 107 years old.<a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/0111/1188898-kerry-man-107/"> Michael J O'Connor from Muckross</a>, in Kerry is an amazing character with a perspective on life that we can only imagine. <br /></p><p></p><p>As a child of six he was unfortunate to contract the Spanish flu. Remarkably he recovered but sadly it killed his mother. From this start this man lived through two world wars, (was torpedoed in the first one) lived through endless cycles of recessions, the ups and downs of life and now seems to be coping well with the latest challenge Covid 19.</p><p>According to <a href=" https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/">Worldometer </a>2 million 68 thousand and 272 people have died as a result of this global pandemic to date and at present the race is on to inoculate it out of our lives. We can not discard at any stage the effect this has had on the communities effected, or deny the hurt felt by relatives who were not even able to say a personal goodbye to someone they had shared their life with. To me it is unimaginable and difficult to accept the fact that we might before it is all over contract or be killed by it, or have to watch the same happen to a close friend or family member.</p><p>So I block that bit out and do what I can to help break the chain of infection (hand-washing, mask wearing and distancing etc.). But the havoc isolation is wreaking on our lives is a tough one to quantify. This in fact is a worry and we will live with its consequences for years after the covid 19 event has been halted. </p><p>Children are loosing so much at all ages now it is sad to witness the loneliness and isolation caused just by separating them from their peers.</p><p>Third level students in a lot of cases have not seen the inside of their colleges at all if they are in first year and perhaps since March last year for others.</p><p>Workers have been embracing working from home, but there are a whole set of ills that must be addressed to enable a seamless transition to this form of work and the jump start that was covid 19 was not a good start. So you have back aches and RSI from bad furniture, huge expense re light, heat, internet, blurred boundaries both in time and space and of course the negative effects of no socialisation with ones co-workers.</p><p>The elderly have a huge burden to contend with, fear of infection, isolation, nutrition, no socialisation and of course the passage of useful time, or that fear of spending your last years in a prison or some sort of purgatorial waiting area before your inevitable death. The older you are the stronger this feeling of time lost must weigh on your soul.</p><p>With pubs abandoned, restaurants closed and personal contact shunned what have people been doing with there spare time? I suppose the answer is positive things and negative things.</p><p>My Christmas this year was totally family focused and un-fussed, it worked, it was a fine time for all of us and we did it effectively for all. That was very positive.</p><p>Earlier in the Pandemic I ramped up my habitual swimming with a vigor previously unknown in my life. For all but two days in the last opening of my local pool (I missed the first and could not bring myself to the last out of sadness), I managed to swim a kilometer a day everyday with no gaps. This made me tired, so regulated my sleep, got me up early in the morning, gave me a good start to the day, slowed down my consumption of wine and made the rest of the lock down easier to take. (This now gone I am concentrating on late nights and lie ins to make up for the elation, but to date no success).<br /></p><p>Work wise all has faded to crash levels, and I am sure this is the case for thousands, but my work in education continues. Thankfully this has provided me with something to focus on and the enthusiasm of both my young and adult learners has been a source of great strength for me.</p><p>Money wise though I don't know how long more I can take this financial pummelling, it's at stronger levels than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-2008_Irish_banking_crisis">financial crash</a> (the one where we were powerless and sat on by the troika). But once we are sitting at home inactive we just need to feed ourselves and I suppose that takes only a little cash. </p><p>Government reaction to this situation overall has been reasonable, leaving us with a certain liberty and /or some freedom of choice. However there was some reluctance to tread on the Good Friday protocol and our 'special' relationship with the U.K. Our Island which may have been insulated by water was not as well protected as, lets say, other Island nations. (travel bans not issued until the emergence of new <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-sars-cov-2-information-about-the-new-virus-variant">variant strains of covid</a>).</p><p>Whilst these reactions are all subtle I can not avoid noticing some worrying local developments where the state of emergency has been grabbed and actions have been taken that are abuses of authority - the '<a href="https://www.lexico.com/definition/power_grab">power grab'</a> that can happen when peoples attention is diverted by hard circumstance.</p><p>Previously I commented on the bad planting on a so called <a href="https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/transportation/covid-mobility-measures/overview-covid-mobility-programme" target="_blank">'covid mobility'</a><a href="https://www.dublincity.ie/residential/transportation/covid-mobility-measures/overview-covid-mobility-programme" target="_blank"> </a>route in Grangegorman, Dublin 7, my home patch. I was so upset by the bad gardening that I posted about it <a href="http://thelillipution.blogspot.com/2020/09/o-my-another-mfot.html">here</a>. I had my suspicions at the time but lets say that these have been borne out by developments at the site in question since my posting. The shabby gardening has been redone and corrected, that is fine for sure, but the route which was an official covid mobility scenario, has been made permanent without the crisis being over and with out any normality to patterns of travel being re - established. I ask the question now is this evidence of a cynical hijacking of power during a crisis by an interested party to speed up their agenda, or even to make their objectives achievable in a time where it is possible, and could there be other such circumstances rearing their heads around out country?<br /></p><p>My gaze returns to my fingers, I hold them up to my face and peer out to the world, I note that I am weary of it, but my focus can shift with efficiency between the two, well at least when I wear the right coloured spectacles!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvLf4thxM-D7X3C1fgBlRew5ZonXQ7eI4sTigST9GiutHjbf6TVk-xPQFMCBUDYBf-S-UOif5pkYaS7UmMHAly8k1ySpe9PPLPpD_FBLgzbER1IhzlgForRMkPCt0oa2mG3BgjXGCAa4/s1181/dmon_covidfingers-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDvLf4thxM-D7X3C1fgBlRew5ZonXQ7eI4sTigST9GiutHjbf6TVk-xPQFMCBUDYBf-S-UOif5pkYaS7UmMHAly8k1ySpe9PPLPpD_FBLgzbER1IhzlgForRMkPCt0oa2mG3BgjXGCAa4/s320/dmon_covidfingers-3.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQUtMY-BuzwzKxmHRlw0l6bgbmCgDKZPv8QnuXG1U4pprLApvdct6FYai0VUwOZ19X4k-j_b4DMhvttmv53baSToJqL0a7Xs5ikTpIpTBhPlhjkTX9mW27JX-PxYTPXc64S8AXpqLGe-Q/s1181/dmon_covidfingers-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1181" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQUtMY-BuzwzKxmHRlw0l6bgbmCgDKZPv8QnuXG1U4pprLApvdct6FYai0VUwOZ19X4k-j_b4DMhvttmv53baSToJqL0a7Xs5ikTpIpTBhPlhjkTX9mW27JX-PxYTPXc64S8AXpqLGe-Q/s320/dmon_covidfingers-6.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgs327qAaGPd1h9HL979Y8KdY-8p7jbiFHT2h1VqVe9lMIWHM0dm7qRyrP3KUiqOyTRRjl_bmTYTz3idS1mZzxz8bpjnbDzKVBU7rHIJWxtU8P6YNzgzQtlE5vxLEjkh048PEdziAGpik/s1181/dmon_covidfingers-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgs327qAaGPd1h9HL979Y8KdY-8p7jbiFHT2h1VqVe9lMIWHM0dm7qRyrP3KUiqOyTRRjl_bmTYTz3idS1mZzxz8bpjnbDzKVBU7rHIJWxtU8P6YNzgzQtlE5vxLEjkh048PEdziAGpik/s320/dmon_covidfingers-2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-4XEHWnjJbrkhngsRo_ZfDPsmZrIR75OtJXq3RBXpYhgCXvG_4a-XrGiO1uP6AMahRTYKdFkni-CJQCyOP6-SIIeodctKMwh9diIYmfzrcJpP_iG1ADgZTbNS0fFtih6MzQDoT-sAX4/s1181/dmon_covidfingers-1-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="1181" height="494" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-4XEHWnjJbrkhngsRo_ZfDPsmZrIR75OtJXq3RBXpYhgCXvG_4a-XrGiO1uP6AMahRTYKdFkni-CJQCyOP6-SIIeodctKMwh9diIYmfzrcJpP_iG1ADgZTbNS0fFtih6MzQDoT-sAX4/w494-h494/dmon_covidfingers-1-2.jpg" width="494" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-36300247604802200882021-01-04T15:28:00.010+00:002021-01-05T11:53:38.060+00:00THE GOLDEN SHIT SHOVEL<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQr8Rn7_G4seKAU8PoE-Mt7FI-XL66W0txJaEzU5gRWF3JwtSs388dNmVVoqb7Xyz47hrXsU1V_GrFX2AMIK6H8hJDl8QhE14P-h0VcqtDTIE5JJVP-_ewkRZiHDVZT3A6zQSek-SD7Us/s1181/dmon_shtsh.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="909" height="588" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQr8Rn7_G4seKAU8PoE-Mt7FI-XL66W0txJaEzU5gRWF3JwtSs388dNmVVoqb7Xyz47hrXsU1V_GrFX2AMIK6H8hJDl8QhE14P-h0VcqtDTIE5JJVP-_ewkRZiHDVZT3A6zQSek-SD7Us/w454-h588/dmon_shtsh.jpg" width="454" /></a></div><p> So on we go with those precious items that mean so much to us, the next is the "Golden Shit Shovel".</p><p>It is in fact my second attempt in a couple of days to make this job of work and you can see below in the image on the left that it can be clearly seen how the emulsion, the magic juice of the polaroid has solidified and refused to be squeezed out over the film to process the negative.</p><p></p><p>This sheet was left out of the fridge for over a month and now I have a better idea of its shelf life once un-thawed (two weeks max). It is so important that we know the properties of the materials we use and how they react when they hit the air, or indeed react with other substances they come into contact with.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLv9_WKYlA2DYEyJWCd1EXZxU3V4kFbxnlqn4g1jHH-HWy8J0gmJzKi5afk9U3wKHQmQhlciWjwL8zNZ-pE-U60DQy0aZvNibEQ5qZ7QgHDv0oqglT79RQ_NsIk1_BnimQqaC-S-7LeWo/s2048/IMG_7066+copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLv9_WKYlA2DYEyJWCd1EXZxU3V4kFbxnlqn4g1jHH-HWy8J0gmJzKi5afk9U3wKHQmQhlciWjwL8zNZ-pE-U60DQy0aZvNibEQ5qZ7QgHDv0oqglT79RQ_NsIk1_BnimQqaC-S-7LeWo/s320/IMG_7066+copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p>Anyhow, this small utility shovel used for cleaning ashes from the grate which a few years ago came into its own as an integral part of an art project that went astray. </p><p>Allow me to explain.</p><p>I previously tried to tell this tale and had prepared this much of the text back in 2017 which gets the story to a particular point.</p><p><i>This seasonal anecdote has at its heart the same message as an earlier post on the lilliputian entitled <a href="http://thelillipution.blogspot.ie/search?q=birdstrike">birdstrike</a><br />
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A couple of weeks ago whilst walking into town I happened to pass Bolton
Street College and The Chocolate Factory on my way to power up an<a href="https://davidmonahan.eu/work/beyond-leaving"> </a><a href="http://www.davidmonahan.eu/album/exhibiion-landing-page#1">Exhibition </a>in the <a href="http://www.nli.ie/en/national-photographic-archive.aspx">NPA</a>.
Something caught my eye as I passed the slightly recessed joint between
the Bolton Street building and the tall and elegant industrial facade
of the Williams and Wood building, now home to the Chocolate Factory -
an arts and Industry building - the former site of the Irish Toblerone
franchise and former home of <a href="https://brandnewretro.ie/2012/02/21/old-adverts-53-silvermints-1974/"><u>Silvermints</u></a> (an Irish classic).<br />
Any how I noticed that some unfortunate had found them self in this
semi-recessed place caught short with no access to a toilet and poo-ed
on the street! Fairly normal thing you might assume. I being doomed to
make this observation was also doomed to pass this space every day for the
next two weeks and on each occasion I had to note that this turd was not
being removed.</i></p><p><i>I wondered who was responsible for this liminal space, this no mans
land between public street, educational institution and artistic
entrepreneurial space where this rock now resided and was settling
in.<br />
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I looked and thought deeply. It was to the right of the Chocolate
factory but a few inches directly outside the DIT College, but sitting
back off the footpath, the domain of the City Council.</i></p><p><i> </i></p><p>so to continue....</p><p>Looking at this everyday and seeing that it was only some 20 metres from two Dublin City Council bins that flanked the entrance to Bolton Street College and also noting that the street was regularly swept, I was bewildered. I though and I thought, how could I express my disbelief in my cities ability to perform a simple clean-up. </p><p>I had the following Idea, I could put the shit in the bin, but before I did I could paint it Gold, photograph it and create a <b>GOLDEN TURD </b>award and present it to the cleansing departments local office responsible for this spot. Then the award could become an annual event, where some incompetent official is awarded this stinker every year.</p><p>Given that this is a negative kind of award, we should really concentrate on the upside/not the downside and considering the logistical difficulties and the possibilities of infection in the field you would think that my mind would be the terminal point of this pre-occupation.</p><p>But after locating the above shovel in my back garden, purchasing a can of gold spray in <a href="https://store.evansartsupplies.ie/">Evans Art Shop </a>and securing a set of conservation grade surgical type gloves, I made my plan.</p><p>So late one January night 2017 I set out with my Hasselblad H3D 50, 80mm lens, flash, gold paint, gloves and Shovel!!</p><p>I have to admit I felt rather nervous as I approached the field of play, paranoid you might say. I felt as if I was being followed, being watched, surveilled by some dark dank force.</p><p>I approached the stool and took out my spray can and started to spray giving it a good solid coat.</p><p>I fired up my camera and flash and started to shoot, I was feeling the world closing down on me and even as there was no one around could feel my presence being observed by some horrible and remote person who was judging me and my actions, so i moved quickly. Shot, got the shove picked up the Poo and moved the few metres to the council bin, dropped it in and put the now contaminated shovel in a plastic bag.</p><p>I was shocked when i got home to find that the paint had not cured on the poo and only the ground had got a good coat of golden paint and this put a stop to my overzealous plans to bring the powers that be too boot.</p><p>So I reverted to my previous good news only position, but swore I would learn a little more about the substances i was dealing with and how they wold react with the air and other materials they came into contact with.....</p><p>And of course we must also remember that no experience is lost on us and every little event is a means to incrementally advance our knowledge! <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU7zUAEq9hL4HycATXi9ZgMenx8JRPHxGttoDIgX2z5XF8iWhQmj5HCZ-bGCkXgR8JgbBYaFaHxzIZGliMUWpFpnLG5j_eUT6CwTgWSFtuL35pqov1QI5lHp9JBD9QZYzFdRCdR1Sjhy8/s1181/dmon_gldtrd.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1181" data-original-width="883" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU7zUAEq9hL4HycATXi9ZgMenx8JRPHxGttoDIgX2z5XF8iWhQmj5HCZ-bGCkXgR8JgbBYaFaHxzIZGliMUWpFpnLG5j_eUT6CwTgWSFtuL35pqov1QI5lHp9JBD9QZYzFdRCdR1Sjhy8/s320/dmon_gldtrd.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br />
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</p>david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-79028043668113520732020-11-23T17:35:00.007+00:002020-11-25T17:20:33.369+00:00In some ways it was great already!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2nk9wvedtQRiue4dnqazbLzv-nozy8LxmlAmetq0R2vN-vninFhoTftcXXv9V9ZSskbnrYf_BTR4w2HMi_mfOMIT10w71UVk6mJNzQumR3uab0Rnm1zEn2JtiJezgU0Hd2YCaqf0fw4/s630/gralab+001.2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="485" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg2nk9wvedtQRiue4dnqazbLzv-nozy8LxmlAmetq0R2vN-vninFhoTftcXXv9V9ZSskbnrYf_BTR4w2HMi_mfOMIT10w71UVk6mJNzQumR3uab0Rnm1zEn2JtiJezgU0Hd2YCaqf0fw4/w493-h640/gralab+001.2.jpg" width="493" /></a></div><p><br /> As I move on through this <a href="https://davidmonahan.eu/" rel="nofollow">Pecious Silver Process</a> I am discovering the depth of meaning beyond the object that is captured within the image, I know this sounds a little hard to touch, but if I allow myself the space to explain this to myself, we may all be able to move forward from this point with a little insight.<br /></p><p> So Let me explain, This work is made to examine optically, and on a precious material<a href="http://www.alexluyckx.com/blog/index.php/2020/07/31/classic-film-review-polaroid-type-55/">(type 55 Polaroid)</a>, objects that hold a particular value to me, (beyond a monetary value).</p><p>This particular piece, is for me the symbol of the darkroom, a fine piece of engineering, and a physical reminder of a very special time in my life when I discovered photography. When I was in the school darkroom processing film and the Gralab let out its piercing buzz, there was no doubt it was time for you to retrieve your film or at least move on to the next part of the process.</p><p>But this particular clock bought by me to replace a now defunct clock in another college darkroom where I now officiate, has proven to me to be a touchstone for a whole different set of experiences. It embodies for me my own experiences of the U.S.A. what it has become and how it may progress.</p><p> Firstly I bought the 1970's clock on a visit to the U.S.A. in 2014 in a shop which in 2020 was set on fire during the the 2020 <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/5/31/21275958/central-camera-company-damaged-extra-alarm-fire-amid-downtown-protests">Chicago riots</a>,The Chicago Sun, reported<i> , Chicago’s iconic Central Camera Company store was damaged in a fire amid <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/5/30/21275575/chicago-protest-george-floyd-federal-plaza-loop-police-arrests">wide-spread protests and property damage</a> downtown Saturday over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.</i> </p><p>The clock was manufactured in the heartland of the American indusrial mid-west in Ohio and here in lies the knub of my clocks hidden story<i> </i>and it is this which fascinates me.</p><p>{The Dimco Gra<b>y Company </b>of Ohio is located in one of the mid-west states , <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/rust-belt.asp">as one website put it,</a> that was <i>Once recognized as the industrial heartland, the region has experienced a
sharp downturn in industrial activity from the increased cost of
domestic labor, competition from overseas, technology advancements
replacing workers, and the <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="2" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capitalintensive.asp" rel="noopener noreferrer">capital intensive</a> nature of manufacturing.
The fortunes of this industrial heartland of America shifted between the 1950s and 1970s when the region's dominant industries faced minimal competition. Powerful <a data-component="link" data-ordinal="1" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/labor-union.asp" rel="noopener noreferrer">labor unions</a>
in the automotive and steel manufacturing sectors ensured labor
competition stayed to a minimum. As a result, many of the established
companies had very little incentive to innovate or expand productivity.
This came back to haunt the region when the United States opened trade
overseas and shifted manufacturing production to the south.}<br /></i></p><p>The Dimco Gray company managed to escape this downturn, and when faced with going out of business in the eighties a worker buyout saved and turned the fortunes of the company around in a few years.</p><p> This is not the story I am used to telling myself about America and American Manufacturing, My story is the one where rich investors trade in shares of all American companies - trying to squeeze out of them all of their worth, Not really caring where the product base originates does not negatively imapact the bottom line. The Shareholder profit motive facilitates a certain fluidity where large American corporations move their capital around the globalised world seeking profit, only to benefit these shareholders - not really caring what carnage is left in the wake of opening up manufacturing in ever cheaper, sometimes even unregulated production facilities - etc. etc etc. All the time driving the thin wedge of earnings upwards towards the <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/050615/are-you-top-one-percent-world.asp">one percent</a>, as the only motive to succeed is to generate profits. </p><p>But it is not all black and white so to speak, in every situation there is nuance, subtle hues through the gray areas from the whitest whites to the darkest black, are in fact what reveal the true depth of a scene, and the Dimco Gray company exist in this space. Now that I know a little more about them I can clearly see how attached I have become to this item, especially as I can see that their focus is not to earn dollars for faceless shareholders. This solitary fact makes my feelings for this classic version of their Gralab timer, makes me glow more now more then ever. Especially when I hear the foghorn of its alarm buzzing through my head to tell me the the minutes have have elapsed on this over 50 year old piece of American Darkroom History!</p><p>That is the message I see deep in this photograph, and because I bought it at the Central Camera Company Which has since been burned down, I am reminded that the American society is now deeply troubled. I hope that in the years to come it can start to heal and what motivates American society in general can be a force like that of the Dimco Gray workers, who invested in themselves for the good of their community.<br /></p><p></p>david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-84458600442619906572020-09-02T18:46:00.005+01:002020-09-03T10:13:30.424+01:00O MY ANOTHER MFOT!<p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCy7gsVW6fyiXETCEsl2_jpBf94gsCuC_rJFLKaNgspSgAQHLbIsbMnznPyaW3xzJ7CdKBea-eoFh78sw93QkTcwT2hDg6tVthGzt5RWzLEfeEWi4Mu8Jm5aIq-m0p1RAJI0RvhSak1pU/s591/untitled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="591" height="591" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCy7gsVW6fyiXETCEsl2_jpBf94gsCuC_rJFLKaNgspSgAQHLbIsbMnznPyaW3xzJ7CdKBea-eoFh78sw93QkTcwT2hDg6tVthGzt5RWzLEfeEWi4Mu8Jm5aIq-m0p1RAJI0RvhSak1pU/w591-h591/untitled.jpg" width="591" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> Earlier on this blog there was a post called <a href="https://thelillipution.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-short-photo-essay-on-idiocy-of.html">a short essay on overspin</a>. in this post I tried to show how a good news story could be made from the most mundane event, ( a habit of the government of that time) In the post I argued that ( amongst other things), the appearance of a potted palm on the Western Way in 2012 was a sign of economic recovery. I was shocked over the last year or so to see more and more of these plants around the town the next in worse state then the last. It now appears the pots have been gathered up and deposited in one site and this as a direct result of a global pandemic.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"> The scientific community look to the trafficking of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqC3ieJJlFM">pangolin</a> as the host of a bat virus that jumped to a human strain now known as <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2020/07/03/pandemic-puzzle-tracing-the-origins-of-covid-19">covid 19 or corona virus.</a><br />It was internationally spread from Wuhan in China by human travel.<br />Its route to Ireland was manifold and it may have traveled from China, Italy, and Singapore initially as well as some other well documented routes. From my reading of the situation International travel will be the cause of this viral infections longevity.<br />The effects of this virus have been far reaching and wide, not least it has so far taken the lives of 1,777 people who got in its way in the Rep. of Ireland and 848,000 people word wide.<br />Needless to say it has to be halted and to date the majority of the population have followed the recommendations of the Irish Government in this regard, who follow the advice of local health experts and the World Health Organisation. My post here has no wish to deflect from the gravity of this situation. But I could not help but notice the shabby and crass nature of one manifestation of my local councils response to covid 19. In fact I feel that it could be argued that the particular visuals facilitated by these council actions shows a lack of respect to those who have suffered the effects of this virus.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxRoMh6CumM9omE9RPQjlB34NEQKryD42ZTd-5YVuTmvCpSA5ZIQ1fL3P58e2ETyjyEijkVztD4o1hx45bbLWYVxtCR0j2pkvkput6FLGiLh01nbl1l_4PlUUsoDnZ_vbKrfPEmdufVLU/s591/untitled.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /> <img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="591" height="591" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSzY60zVwWxqI7rca2siguK7uuOLp-ZNJGdoIgocUtEj7DcLDgCYRVC0BDJoPHjiaFqljkbrcokun9tPk1uK1HPLGQJ6eMy9fMTF-HX2jVCalWCoI4qZNaTQfHgJa_cA3ZKdoKsjv0m4U/w591-h591/untitled-69.jpg" width="591" /><br /><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">So, here I am speaking of the<a href="http://www.dublincity.ie/main-menu-services-roads-and-traffic-dublin-city-covid-mobility-programme/covid-mobility-webpage"> Dublin City Council Covid Mobility Team</a> who have engineered mobility solutions which aid peoples travels around its physical area of responsibility. A noble aspiration which they describe the following way, (their objectives I have described above)<br /><br /><i>The measures developed in response to these objectives are being introduced to respond to a new and unprecedented emergency caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. They are being implemented on a temporary basis to respond to the urgent and immediate needs of the city. They will be reviewed periodically to assess their effectiveness and, because of their nature and type of implementation, can be modified as needed to respond to changing needs and requirements.</i><br /><br />In Grangegorman Dublin 7 they have erected a road block described as Filtered permeability, in their words, </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjql7gscPjDw5x4FNVO45RzHu3UflGoPJy8piU5UdUMSDn9KMAzzwi80L4eFNms2yR9r3kxwQuK84XW8kdFudB9ud7kZ-sjWubU-ZZQYi-Al9X3P975a8Myt-KMHVNDOqs8VrfM0DzEtA4/s591/untitled-31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="591" height="591" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjql7gscPjDw5x4FNVO45RzHu3UflGoPJy8piU5UdUMSDn9KMAzzwi80L4eFNms2yR9r3kxwQuK84XW8kdFudB9ud7kZ-sjWubU-ZZQYi-Al9X3P975a8Myt-KMHVNDOqs8VrfM0DzEtA4/w591-h591/untitled-31.jpg" width="591" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /><i>Filtered permeability is effectively a ‘cycle gate’-cyclists are able to travel through the ‘cycle gate’but other vehicles cannot. Implementation of filtered permeability will not result in any changes to existing footpath facilities. The filtered permeability trial on Grangegorman Lower is due to commence on 6 July 2020. The measure will use bollards to prevent motorised through traffic in order to create a pedestrian and cycle friendly zone and a safer space for local residents and for thousands of pedestrians and cyclists arriving at TUD from September 2020.<br /></i><br />In their description in documentation there is no reference to the means of negating the existing parking bays on the very wide concourse outside the HSE Building which was at one time the centre piece of the Grangegorman complex. (It is only these particular measures I am referring to here). </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">It is achieved by the combination of a new set of 24hour clearway signs, and a bunch of dishevelled potted palms that have seen better days( since their first sightings in 2012), The already generous footpaths have been extended onto the road and marked out with a row of new luminous stick bollards.<span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIQFRDwWNJI-PrL396p9eg4Js0OAMrv2cje1OKoRs82eg5FUvzcMDKudsw03vhxbeKbO0CkFUqF_cLbZx8OSbrWWqSSrbxCu_4Yl4VXHxrlHztwNU_hdlfLmvPUZouHaUY1yuuIhLBc3o/s591/untitled-71.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="591" data-original-width="591" height="591" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIQFRDwWNJI-PrL396p9eg4Js0OAMrv2cje1OKoRs82eg5FUvzcMDKudsw03vhxbeKbO0CkFUqF_cLbZx8OSbrWWqSSrbxCu_4Yl4VXHxrlHztwNU_hdlfLmvPUZouHaUY1yuuIhLBc3o/w591-h591/untitled-71.jpg" width="591" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">This now large open space can only be described as the proverbial <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/a-dogs-dinner">‘Dogs Dinner’</a> and the lack of though by those who designed this feature leaves the council open to accusations of s</span><span style="font-size: large;">hoddy practices. When the dust settles and the area is a bustling concourse full of local and student life I sincerely hope that some better street furniture </span><span style="font-size: large;">is chosen. Something that may synergise with the fine design and restoration already evident on the Grangegorman site.</span></div><div><br /><br /></div>david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-72728825082183715292020-08-15T14:42:00.001+01:002020-08-15T17:26:54.162+01:00Back on the block at davidmonahan.eu <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cFjw1DvVtO_R7O0rpV0P0KtPMRNt1fV92gS-B4Pa9NGn2940DBq1AA1VGtXyyy48EQ1EvaZcCt_CKnmxCyLGGoj598inkcNAuniYCGhiZe57bpE6AOP71UOALpXUHMnmNEDSIr0dgJs/s1575/13b178b2-8d46-49aa-bb94-aa2a8310021c.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1575" data-original-width="1229" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0cFjw1DvVtO_R7O0rpV0P0KtPMRNt1fV92gS-B4Pa9NGn2940DBq1AA1VGtXyyy48EQ1EvaZcCt_CKnmxCyLGGoj598inkcNAuniYCGhiZe57bpE6AOP71UOALpXUHMnmNEDSIr0dgJs/s640/13b178b2-8d46-49aa-bb94-aa2a8310021c.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>There is no doubt about it, the world twists, it turns, things mutate, todays critical discourses are not the exchanges we were having six months ago. There is no doubt that from month to month society is consumed by one subject or another and when the dust settles it always appears that most of the time spent paying attention to an unfolding narrative, was wasted time. Remember the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/31/millennium-bug-face-fears-y2k-it-systems" target="_blank">Millenium Bug,</a> or perhaps<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit" target="_blank"> Brexit</a>. They held our thoughts and were a major item of public discourse for years but now the story of Brexit seems to be disappearing from the everyday news as fast as that Bug story did at 12:01 on January 1st 2000. <div><br /></div><div>There is a lot wrong with our world and a lot of it centres around divisions and polarities within peoples. Without getting into the whys and wherefores of political and economic systems, we must look to ourselves to create a small world around our own personal contacts. We should do this with a humanity that exudes love, kindness, equality, all the time remaining curious about what we can do to build better relationships with the world around us. Don't leave it up to the political classes, craft your own special relationships with all of those you come into contact with. Remain open to learn from others and give freely through positive actions.</div><div><br /></div><div>One step on my continuing creative trajectory towards this goal is the creation of a new personal website at <a href="http://davidmonahan.eu">davidmonahan.eu</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Above is the first photograph you will encounter on this new site.</div><div>It may take a few weeks for the data on this new site to overwrite the old data on the original David Monahan site but all should be good in a few weeks. And so </div><div>I start to build and I hope the site will change frequently to mirror my own personal growth as I share our now smaller world..... its almost lilliputian!</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span> </span> </div></div>david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-59161339718749518502019-12-11T19:24:00.001+00:002020-09-29T14:50:04.401+01:00Blues Singer Puts it up to Us<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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About a year ago my brother Ian played me a track he was working on, he had recorded the piece with Dublin Blues Legend Ditch Cassidy. Ians last outing with Ditch spawned the rough and tumble '<a href="https://youtu.be/ou4A_NZhhBw">We Built This House'</a> A track about the financial collapse of 2007/8 which was used for the titles in Donald Taylor Blacks' excellent Feature film Doc '<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2779890/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast">Skin in the Game</a>' Which also featured musical contributions from<a href="https://www.christymoore.com/news/skin-in-the-game/"> Christy Moore</a> and <a href="https://barrymccormack.bandcamp.com/releases">Barry Mc Cormack</a><br />
I knew when I heard it it was some thing very special.<br />
Around summertime we set about making a video for it, Earlier in the year I had an idea about a mysterious man in a white suit which I though might work for this presentation.<br />
The Idea to build a sense of intrigue through sound and vision is played out in this video,<br />
For me it works so well, who is he, how does he relate to the singer, how does he relate to the allusions of the song and where will he take us.<br />
Any how Ian has chosen now to release this song on youtube, and because of its spiritual nature this is probably the ideal time for this release. In order for it to succeed and raise the profile of this fantastic singer to the national level he deserves this project needs your shares.<br />
Please go to the youtube page direct from this link and follow the links to embed and share the work in your social networking feeds.<br />
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I will keep you all posted on where the work takes us.<br />
Loads of love to you all,<br />
David<br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-83396237826451052892019-04-22T19:20:00.002+01:002019-04-29T21:56:31.087+01:00CROSSING THE STREET # 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was delighted last week to meet with Lucky Khambule a man who now lives in the town of <a href="http://visitwicklow.ie/item/arklow/">Arklow, </a>co Wicklow. Lucky was1.5 years in ‘<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_Provision">direct provision’</a> before been given’ leave to remain’ in Ireland by the department of Justice. Lucky is a very striking presence who carries himself with dignity, respect for all and concern for those who remain in the unfortunate and unnecessary regime that limits their potential by means denying basic human rights.<br>
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In an effort to add to the discourse around <a href="http://dorasluimni.org/direct-provision/">Direct Provision</a><a href="http://dorasluimni.org/direct-provision/">,</a> to increase international awareness of its existence and in some small way to help bring an end to its madness, I will be adding my voice to those already active by starting a new series of photographs. Photographs of survivors of Direct Provision.<br>
Those who have passed through the system and come out the other end.<br>
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All is proceding well at the National Photographic Archive, the exhibition is being enjoyed by a large diverse audience, some viewing it in a series of glances and others spending time with it, looking, watching, listening, hearing, communicating. The series of events around the exhibition have all gone well and I will report on all here at a later date.<br />
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For the moment I wanted to draw your attention to the last two events in the schedule announced in the last post, both at The National Library, Kildare Street.<br />
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<i>Professor Mary Gilmartin, from Maynooth University for this exploration of the issues around migration.<br /><br />This lecture is one of a series taking place as part of the programme around the Beyond Leaving exhibition at the library’s National Photographic archive in Temple Bar, Dublin 2.<br /><br />What does belonging mean?<br /><br />Seeking to belong is a common human desire. But what does belonging mean when you are a migrant, living away from familiar places and people? In this talk, Professor Gilmartin will consider the ways in which migrants create new spaces of belonging and will use examples from the experiences of immigrants living in Ireland and Irish emigrants living in other countries to show how migrants seek to belong – whether this is through local communities or transnational citizenship – as well as the difficulties they encounter.</i><br />
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Fridays event is the final move of my suite of presentations on and around this subject and it seeks to locate the discourse around recent Irish migration in context with recent global trends in migration.<br />
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It features five speakers who will each make a presentation on their work and a number of panel discussions around the topic of the day.<br />
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Speakers include Melanie Friend, photographer/artist and educator, Sarah Maria Griffin, author and project collaborator, Rory O'Neill, artist/researcher, Ciara Kenny, curator and editor of Irish Abroad/Generation Emigration (Irish Times) and Vukasin Nedelikovic artist/resercher (Asylum Archive). It will be hosted by David Monahan, Dr Justin Carville and Dr Mark Curran and will take place in the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">After six weeks at exhibition we start the new year with an exciting programme of panels, presentations and discussions on various subjects in and around the theme of migration. These events have been</span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">organised in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland's Education Department,</span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">IADT Dun Laoghaire, History Ireland and First Fortnight</span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Mental Health Arts Festival. They will run over the remaining weeks of the exhibition finishing with a day long conference at the National Library, Kildare Street, entitled Picturing Migration. (March 3rd 2017)</span></div>
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On Monday November the 14th Beyond Leaving came to life as an installation at the <a href="http://www.nli.ie/en/photographs-introduction.aspx">National Photographic Archive,</a> Temple Bar, Dublin. As an exhibition it will remain open seven days a week until March 26, 2017.The show represents the culmination of 6 years work, with this particular component being the result of a two year research process as part of the masters by research programme at <a href="http://iadt.ie/">IADT Dun Laoghaire.</a></div>
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Beyond Leaving will be at exhibition in <a href="http://www.nli.ie/en/national-photographic-archive.aspx">the National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin,</a><br />
from November to early March 2017. It is the biggest Irish platform to date for my work. The installation will feature some 25 new large scale photographic works, video, and artifact generated over the period of net emigration from 2009 to 2016. Thanks to all who pledged support to the Fund: it , campaign, although it is now finished you can see the details here <a href="http://fundit.ie/project/beyond-leaving">click here to have a look </a><br />
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On the 24th of August 2016 the Central Statistics Office of Ireland ( CSO )made a very important announcement. It was this. <a href="http://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/er/pme/populationandmigrationestimatesapril2016/">To the year ending in April 2016 there was a return to net inward migration for Ireland for the first time since 2009.</a><br />
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tone of this announcement is reflected in the <a href="https://dfa.sensorpro.net/run/v3.aspx?m=XlezgW3fQIkKCI%2F3GCC1vNvJhW1nXyD%2BX0tiOFqSuUIwt01mz%2BI34PpBjaRn7Lh8_d_s7a">global Irish Newsletter from the office of the Junior Minister with responsibility for the Diaspora</a> in which the headline events are the Fleadh Cheoil, The Rose of
Tralee, and the All Ireland Hurling and Camogie finals. Granted there
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Melbourne, Australia, and the upcoming United Nations Migration
Conference, but the emphasis here is on the other and not the self. And
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this months newsletter amounts to one thing, deflection.<br />
Although there is still the small mater of the 76,200 people who left here in that year there was in fact the small number of 3,100 more people entering the country than those who have left.<br />
This signals the end of a cycle.<br />
We can now quantify the movements of this period. In fact the CSO has done this for us and I suppose having things tied up neatly with a bow is what the we as consumers of the media and presented fact demand! I will only present one figure from the chart below and the rest can be extracted by your own gaze. The light blue of the period of net emigration adds up to half a million people.<br />
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Looking beneath the surface of the Irish experiences at this point is an essential part of building an understanding of of this period of net emigration. Following on from my personal project On Leaving, I have been working on a further research project with some of the recently departed and some of those who have chosen to return home. The work has been conducted as part of <a href="http://www.iadt.ie/researchandindustry/current-research-opportunities"> IADT Dun Laoghaire</a> practice led research project and I am grateful for the guidance and counsel of both Dr. Mark Curran and Dr. Justin Carville as I move towards exhibition of these work.<br />
The video clip above is a short extract of some conversations had with some of my collaborators. <br />
Thank you for reading this post and I would be delighted to receive your comments and of course your support for the fundit campaign at<a href="http://fundit.ie/project/beyond-leaving"> http://fundit.ie/project/beyond-leaving</a><br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-61104206682601005402016-06-14T14:51:00.000+01:002016-06-14T21:09:15.125+01:00BEYOND LEAVING ii<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Its been such a pleasure being back in an exhibition space, showing work, talking with those who came to see it, or who just ventured in after they had lunch in the building, or indeed, after they had visited <a href="http://epicirelandchq.com/">EPIC</a>. I am delighted and excited about the response to the work and feel assured that audiences will be very interested in the next step along this road to understanding what in fact it is to be a modern Irish person. Either here or there! <br />
To this end I am now introducing Beyond Leaving and the concept behind my next show. A couple of years ago now I set off on a new smaller, but a little more rigorous research, to try and fathom the distance between expectation and the reality of today for a small group of people who collaborated with me in the production of the Leaving Dublin series.<br />
This research will culminate in a show in the <a href="http://www.nli.ie/en/national-photographic-archive.aspx">National Photographic Archive</a> this coming November.<br />
The show will feature new photographic works, video, interview, audio-visual, and research documentation.<br />
One strand of these works will be a series of skype interviews which have been made with collaborators. The clip here is demonstrative of the many ways that this kind of communications can be laborious and unfruitful and it can sometimes be hard to realise ones intent.However as e-communication platforms expand there are now several alternative ways to talk with video to people all over the world, facetime, whats app, facebook messenger video, and google hangouts all look like making this area of communications easier and more fruitful into the future.<br />
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So here is my opener, my first piece so to speak.<br />
I hope you enjoy it and what it has to say.<br />
there is lots more to come in this stream.<br />
Please like ans share and as alway your comments will be appreciated and replied to as they will help to shape the process of making the exhibition.<br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-42244790809703297212016-05-22T23:49:00.000+01:002016-05-23T15:04:11.740+01:00 LUNCH WITH SOME ART ON THE SIDE?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="st">It was with that in mind that the management of the chq building were approached and the idea of hosting a show of On Leaving was floated by my partner/producer Carole Caprani. The team there were enthusiastic. It was felt that a certain amount of synergy could be harnessed by both exhibits which are indeed proving to be complimentary. The work was hung on Saturday and Sunday the 14th and 15th of May by Ian Monahan and Adam Abuzenan and the show opened it's doors to the public the following day. I was in the USA for this first few days, (more about that in the next few posts), but returned on Friday morning in time for the opening reception which happened between 17.30 and 20.00 that evening. </span><br />
<span class="st">I was delighted that Irish Times journalist and curator of the blog <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/generation-emigration">Generation Emigration,</a> <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/profile/ciara-kenny-7.1593252">Ciara Kenny</a> enthusiastically accepted my invitation to open the show and she made some very good points about the common ground we share in telling the story of the individual. I would echo that our position is very important in the age when people are fed generalisations about things such as <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/immigration/index.html">migration, migrant culture and the realities of modern life</a>. Series like Generation Emigration and indeed my work play an important part of debunking the myths spun out in other areas of the media </span><br />
<span class="st">which paint a monotone picture of our society. Testimony featured on Generation Emigration has played an important part in keeping the absent present in our national consciousness and for that we should all be very grateful. </span><br />
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<span class="st">On the night although slightly jet lagged I really enjoyed showing the work to guests who had never seen the work before, and introducing the other strands of the piece to those who were only familiar with the leaving Dublin Series. Indeed I have had three full days already in the space talking endlessly with enthusiastic viewers of the work who in some cases only ventured into chq just to get a bite to eat. In fact, nipping into chq for a bite to eat should be the start point.The work should be something there to be discovered and in this location I am delighted to be the perfect filling to a lunchtime sandwich treat. There are indeed some great places to eat in the building and everyday the concourse is filled with happy workers from the offices and businesses close by doing just that. I suggest you join them over the next two weeks and finish lunch off with a look at at ON LEAVING, and maybe even a visit to the vaults which now house EPIC, the story of our diaspora and how it has shaped the world in which we live.</span><br />
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<span class="st">Big thanks to Paul Mc Carthy for the photos (I owe you one for sure) and to all who turned up on the night. I really appreciate it. Tune in here over the next few weeks for some tales of adventure. Please share and comment on this post below and get your friends together and go for a bite in the chq and drop in for a long (or short) discussion with me, I will be there till 4th June 11.00 - 16.00 daily..</span><br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-13534974184984401002016-05-19T06:12:00.000+01:002016-05-19T13:12:24.880+01:00ON LEAVING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am so delighted to be announcing the first showing of On Leaving In my hometown, Dublin, the place where the work for the large part was conceptualised and made.<br />
True a component part of the project, <a href="http://www.davidmonahan.eu/leaving-dublin">Leaving Dublin</a>, was shown there in the <a href="http://totallydublin.ie/arts-culture/arts-culture-features/photoireland-2012-in-focus-david-monahan/">National Photographic Archive as part of the photoIreland festival show Living-Leaving </a>in 2012. But the show of all three components of the greater photographic project did not come together until October 2013 when I was invited to assemble a solo show for Siamse Tire, in Tralee Co, Kerry.<br />
As this show came together on site the plan for a book of On Leaving evolved over the stay in Kerry where I designed and then Installed the show with the help of fellow photographer Lanka Perren. From that day my mission was to work on pulling the final components of the work together by traveling and making the remaining portaits and Landscapes needed to cradle the texts which were slowly coming into view. It took a further year of travel and the intervention of superbly thought out design by <a href="http://home.hitone.ie/">Niall McCormack</a> to bring the book On Leaving into existence. Terrifically printed by <a href="http://www.nicholsonbass.com/awards.php">Nicholson Bass</a> in Belfast this book was named the best printed book of the year In 2015 by the print industry of all Ireland.<br />
The Book On Leaving is the reason for this presentation of the work in Dublin. The existence of <a href="http://epicirelandchq.com/?gclid=CjwKEAjwpfC5BRCT1sKW2qzwqE0SJABkKFKRhKWa73ZVhvkcXivqufK14tL3uBIi7sqjM3ucMBLmiRoCkivw_wcB">Epic Ireland</a> in the vaults of the chq building the reason for showing the work in this location. And the time is now right to show the work to a bigger audience as it appears things are returning to normal in Ireland at this time.<br />
As we all know appearances can be deceptive so we have to be aware of all that has happened to the people of Ireland over the last eight years or so. On Leaving provides a lens through which we can look back over this latest twist in the tale of the Irish Diaspora. During the period of the show the book will be available to contextualise the work which hangs in the large gallery space on the ground floor of the chq building.<br />
I am grateful to Carole Caprani who arranged the show and to <a href="http://www.semisolidradio.com/tunedInFrames.php">Ian Monahan</a> for frame design, providing the soundtracks to many manifestations of the work and for hanging the work with Adam Abuzenan, and to Pete Smyth for texting us up.<br />
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The book is on sale during the show period and I hope viewers of the exhibition take advantage of the special exhibition offer to push the book out throughout the world( it's a free postage offer)<br />
I also hope that a a big group of you the readers of this blog turn up on the night of the launch on Friday the 20th of May 2016 to celebrate all of those people who took part and collaborated in the work that has become On Leaving. The work wil be introduced by Ciara Kenny, journalist and editor of the Irish Times Generation Emigration Blog<br />
I hope to see you there!<br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-68605985503792683892016-04-27T23:46:00.000+01:002016-04-29T16:06:09.783+01:00BEYOND LEAVING<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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As I opened my tripod a builder on the single story roof of the house next door pointed at the sky and shook his head, 'looks like rain he said!'<br>
It has taken some time. But today I stepped once more into the place where I am most comfortable.<br>
Setting up my camera in the back garden of a house on Church Avenue, Eastwall. I was grateful,<br>
grateful to be once more working with someone I consider a friend. The man who twice set me on my way to the Airport in Sao Paulo after negotiating a shared taxi for me, who showed me around, and pointed out the roughness around the edges of the mega-city as I passed through it on my way around the Americas. And of course I was grateful to be working once more to be making photographs especially within a zone that is now so close to me.<br>
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I am so delighted to have found this report on the facebook page of the Immigration Museum Melbourne, Australia, as it proves several things, That the world is a small place, That distances don't really matter where media is concerned, and that good work will be celebrated especially when it receives accolade.The post can be studied in detail <a href="https://www.facebook.com/immigrationmuseum/posts/10156329441445430">here</a>. The report also points to t<a href="http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/whatson/past-exhibitions/leaving-dublin/about-the-exhibition/">he full site of the show</a> hosted by the Immigration Museum in October 2012, The high point of my photographic career to date. Also contained on the site is the <a href="http://museumvictoria.com.au/immigrationmuseum/whatson/past-exhibitions/leaving-dublin/leaving-dublin-video/">video report</a> made especially for the Australian presentation.<br />
The text of the post reads' <i>David Monahan’s wonderful publication 'On Leaving' has won a major
award at the Irish Print Awards. The now award winning publication
followed on from the Leaving Dublin exhibition held at Immigration
Museum in 2012.' </i>It goes on to point to an article that the museum staff found whilst trawling the internet. an article from the newspaper <a href="http://www.newtownabbeytoday.co.uk/news/business/double-success-for-mallusk-firm-at-irish-print-awards-1-7098687">Newtownabbey Times<b>.</b></a><br />
A report based on a press release that two days earlier I had contributed too. And so the world goes round I speak some words down the phone to Peter in Mallusk ( A townland Name I had no knowledge off till I saw this report from Australia),He includes my input in his press release, Its printed in the local newspaper in Newtonabbey, and then its reported on in Melbourne in time for me to see it on face book.<br />
Here is the text of the press release!<br />
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Mallusk firm Nicholson Bass won the much
coveted awards for ‘Best Irish Printed Book’ and ‘Best Irish Printed
Magazine’ at the recent Irish Print Awards, held in Dublin.</h3>
The book, ‘On Leaving’ by David Monanhan, is a photographic
conversational piece depicting the current wave of Irish emigration
following the economic crash in 2008.<br />
The judges described the publication as “a truly classic book with excellent printing, binding and overall appearance.”<br />
David Monahan commented: “When myself and accomplished designer
Niall McCormack set out to find a printer for our project we had two key
goals, to print it locally and to have the best result. This was made
possible by the skilled team at Nicholson Bass and we had the impression
on our first trip to Belfast that they were the best in Ireland. Now we
have proof!”<br />
‘Freckle’ is an independently published magazine celebrating the
people and landscapes of Northern Ireland and beyond. It is all
reproduced on recycled material.<br />
Praising Nicholson Bass for their
work on the publication, the competition judges said: “This magazine
has everything, the look and feel are superb, the quality of the colours
used and the reproduction is excellent.”<br />
Jonathan Megarry,
Managing Director of Nicholson Bass commented: “These awards are a true
compliment to everyone in our business and rubber stamps all the good
work that every member of staff has helped contribute to.<br />
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genuinely enjoyable to work with customers who have the same passion for
what they do as we do. Nicholson Bass are not just a printing company,
we try to inspire and connect through the medium of print and projects
like these do that.”<br />
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Its great once more to make this kind of connection with the Immigration Museum, and I am delighted when evidence that their faith in my work was well placed.<br />Personally I am also delighted for Myself, designer Niall McCormack, and of course Nicolson Bass.<br />
Together we produced the best printed book in Ireland of 2015. Fantastic.<br />
If you would like a copy of this book which celebrates the heroes of modern Ireland,( those who emigrated after the financial crash of 2008-9) I have a special end of year offer if you go to the site to purchase the book<a href="http://www.onleaving.com/">( onleaving.com)</a> and use the code smallworld 1 you will get free postage anywhere in this small world for nothing. This time at least distance will have no significance!<br />
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Oh, and please comment and share this post across your social networks, it could reach further!<br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-69837465560757109792015-10-25T21:09:00.000+00:002015-10-25T21:09:50.754+00:00ON EXHIBITION.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I am delighted to be once more on exhibition in two locations in two different counties.<div>
The first is 4 week engagement in Raheny and Edenmore in Dublin. "Window to Eden'"is an exciting development in community arts which presents work of artists in a number of mediums in presentations beyond the gallery space. The work hangs in two locations and is viewable by pedestrian who pass the windows where the work hangs in Raheny Library and at St Monica's Community Information Centre, Edenmore. The book 'On Leaving' is also available for inspection inside in the Library building.</div>
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-87316580013393389002015-09-04T17:03:00.001+01:002015-09-07T16:47:40.382+01:00SEEING IS BE-LEAVING!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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This morning at 8 a.m. this, the latest edition of the Irish Arts review, dropped through my letterbox.<br />
Fantastic, I thought. I ripped it out of its plastic bag and flicked nervously to the rear of the magazine.<br />
On the way I came across a great review of the work of Eamon Doyle with two pages of images.A piece on an upcoming Sean Hillen show. An interesting article by Anthony Haughey, calling for a new National Museum of Photography, or Centre for Contemporary Photography and a new school of photography offering undergraduate degrees, Masters and PhD programs. This article was coloured with work from some recent graduates from various colleges around the country. Photography was also well represented in an article about recent art graduates.<br />
Anyhow, on I went, I scoured the books section at the rear, under a review of a book that I must check out called Visual Notes on the Recession Time in Ireland 2013, by Tom Szustec, I found it.<br />
At last!<br />
The Irish Arts Review, review of On Leaving.<br />
Here it is and big thanks to Ros Kavanagh for the very positive review. <br />
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<i>The New York Times used the phrase 'crash art’ to describe the substantial body of work born out of the recent recession. We have seen the illusion of prosperity evaporate, exposing an all-too-familiar empty landscape bearing the scars of material folly. It was however a sign of hope that we can make art about this at all. David Monahan has been determinedly engaged in his widely reported on project Leaving Dublin since 2010. Arising from a measured anger at ‘politicians’ brushing aside of the hardship of immigration, he sought and photographed those leaving Dublin for a better life elsewhere. Following a successful series of exhibitions, he has collected this work in On Leaving. Superbly produced, it is set out in three sections: "empty spaces"-large format images made a time of locations that Monahan describes as sacred to his subjects; "Leaving Dublin"-84 nighttime images of individuals, couples and families on the cusp of leaving; "visitation"-the series of images produced during follow-up visits to the emigres, some of whom have returned.<br /><br />The book has contributed essays and poetry by Sarah Maria Griffin, Piaras Mac Énri, Noreen Bowden, Jennifer Redmond, as well as text by Monahan. These are set out so that both text and images can be read in parallel, without referring specifically to one and another. None of the main plates are titled, but forbearance is rewarded by a richly detailed appendix with dates, locations, names and anecdotes.<br /><br />The central images of the book are the stylised night portraits from Leaving Dublin. Rigourously constructed and playfully lit, they exhibit a theatricality that prepares the ground for their stories to be sought out and read. A final text by Monahan shows the personal connection made with the subjects and the endeavour of his commitment over the last five years. His encyclopaedic blog-the Lilliputian-is a must for further enquiry.</i><br />
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Reading through the review I was delighted. Then bang, just as I finished reading my phone binged!<br />
I checked the source of this phone chatter to see that a limited edition of the book had been purchased by some one across town<i>.</i><br />
Someone who obviously around the same time as me had received their copy of the Arts Review<i>.</i><br />
It's in the post now as I type and I am hopeful for more action on the foot of this review.<br />
I am delighted to be in the Arts Review, but especially delighted to be in an edition so rich with photographic content and interest<i>.</i><br />
Please share this post on all your social media platforms as it helps the cause.<br />
Great to see the blog about to turn over 130, 000 reads soon, thanks for all of your support!<br />
Remember the book is available from onleaving.com see ad below! <br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-54458743833868775412015-05-26T01:34:00.001+01:002015-05-26T01:42:50.207+01:00ON THE PAGE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Its been a long slow walk from there to here. It started in March 2010 and ended on December 11th 2014 with the Launch of the book <a href="http://onleaving.com/">ON LEAVING</a>. The end of one journey so to speak , but the start of another. The volume has been produced and now it is my job to drive as many as I can to the site <a href="http://onleaving.com/">onleaving.com</a> to buy this work, complete and sequenced as only a book can sequence a work in the way it was meant to be seen.This is the definitive presentation of this work and I am so proud of how it looks and feels in the hand. In a very positive review Last week, photomonitor said the following of the work
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<i>Throughout On Leaving the notion of loss is successfully
articulated in two different ways—visually and literally—and, more
importantly, from two different perspectives. While Monahan’s night time
portraits in Leaving Dublin and Griffin’s moving poem American Wake
might focus on the individual in the face of uncertainty, Monahan’s
desolate land- and cityscapes as well as his informal portraits speak of
a collective loss: a loss for a family, or for an entire country. The
loss Ireland suffered and is suffering today as a result of the Diaspora
is mapped in the highly informative and equally poignant writings by
Piaras Mac Éinrí, Noreen Bowden, and Jennifer Redmond, which accompany
Monahan’s sophisticated photographs. On Leaving is both a valuable contribution to documentary and fine art photography, and an invaluable addition to the history of a people. </i>( Lisa Stein,<a href="http://www.photomonitor.co.uk/2015/05/15434/"> photomonitor </a>)<br />
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The fine work done by Designer Niall McCormack has to be seen to be believed and understood.<br />
This book is a design masterpiece and it is bound together with a complex simplicity that adds so much to the work enabling it to shine a light on a phenomena of our times.<br />
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I want this work to penetrate and have impact through intimate networks of friends and individuals who have seen, experienced, touched and have been touched by this work. To that end I am offering<br />
two volumes of the work up to you the readers of this blog who can direct traffic to <a href="http://onleaving.com/">onleaving.com</a>.<br />
Once you have yourself blogged,Posted,tweeted,facebooked,google+'ed, tumblered, or placed a link in the way of any audience you will be entered into a draw for a copy of the book on leaving.<br />
This draw will happen once the work has found itself out there on one hundred posts.<br />
All you have to do is post it and send me the details, either by mail to dmon@me.com, by fb message , or in the comments box below. Once the link is verified you will be entered in the draw.<br />
Once the posts reach two hundred I will also make a signed and boxed deluxe edition of the work available by draw to all who have shared and encouraged traffic to the site <a href="http://onleaving.com/">onleaving.com</a><br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-3466200775494675102015-05-21T23:32:00.001+01:002019-01-01T13:43:04.303+00:00I Stand With so Much Behind Me Still Looking Out on the World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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With the completion and publishing of the book ‘On Leaving’ a chapter has closed and I am delighted with the way that the act of publishing this volume has ‘book-ended’ this process in a way that punctuates my activities and my involvement in the issues surrounding modern day movement of people from my community.I now go forward with the accumulated knowledge that this process has brought to me as I immersed myself, absorbed in the pursuit of a finding a way of presenting a picture of this time and subject to you the readers of this blog, and indeed, to the greater public via the volume’<a href="http://onleaving.com/"> On Leaving’.</a><br />
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It would be true to say that my intention to start this project was not to produce this volume. It would also be true to say that I did not envisage spending almost five years working solely in this area, but this has proven to be then case! It would be truer to the facts to state that my concern initially was to make a dramatic photograph of a single emigration for a family member. Whilst thinking of a suitable means of execution of this duty it occurred to me that a series of similar images would indeed make an interesting social comment.<br />
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From that singular point of departure the project On Leaving developed exponentially and as time passed I became more involved as I climbed its curve towards the plateau that was to become the above mentioned publication. From this perspective, the now, I have a clear overview of all that this experience has brought to me and my collaborators and I am set to investigate further, but from a now altered perspective and with a different way of evaluating what I find.<br />
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Let me explain. On October 1st last year (2014) I took up a research position in my old school<br />
(IADT Dun Laoaghaire). I am currently pursuing the making of a practice led study on current Irish emigration which aims to ask a specific question.The question being: In the case of the current Irish emigrant, what is the distance between expectation and reality? The answering of that question will involve the making of new artworks, (photography, moving image, soundscape) and it is envisaged that experiencing the works will add new depth to the understandings already arrived at by other academic investigations into the area of recent emigration.<br />
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A practiced led research study Is for this project, a novel and innovative way in which to look at this subject and should as a result of this new investigation from the practice perspective, add new depth to what is already known about this subject. Whilst it applies the full weight and responsibility of academic research to the topic a large proportion of its study is given over to producing new works whose process and creative outcomes demonstrate the generation of new knowledge. For me this means the grounding of all works on a solid base of all that has gone before. For you the viewer of these final works the reassurance that you will experience works as evocative as those I have produced in the past, but with an extra depth that may induce a desire to look deeper into the research that brought these works to life. An exhibition of this soon to be started practice component of this project will happen in early 2017.The physical work starts now.<br />
See a great review of the book here <a href="https://www.photomonitor.co.uk/15434/">https://www.photomonitor.co.uk/15434/</a> see it , like it , share it!<br />
See the book here! <a href="http://onleaving.com/">onleaving.com </a>, buy it!<br />
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david monahanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08662796450227476428noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3299380205884288457.post-87173072867440998692015-01-03T00:18:00.000+00:002015-01-04T23:07:50.598+00:00IT IS ALL HERE! RIGHT NOW!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Almost three years ago now I planned this video piece and prepared it in its first form for St Patrick's day projections around the world.Having finished shooting the series in summer 2013 I re-edited the work to include all of the works ( the count went from 75 to 84in the intervening period)<br />
This piece was used in the first On Leaving show in Siamse Tiré,Tralee,co Kerry.<br />
With all the contributors thanked in the acknowledgements of the book On Leaving, I felt the time was right for one final re-edit so as to slowly name all of the sitters on a list in the form of the credits at the end of this piece.On the night it gave me such pleasure to see this come together. I beamed with pride to hear two fantastic pieces of music by my collaborator Ian Monahan Echo loud and sure all around meeting house square.<br />
And so for all,of you who came down on the night a big thanks.For those of you who could not make it, the video played on the night is here and the book is available for immediate shipping from <a href="http://onleaving.com/">onleaving.com</a><br />
I Have resisted placing this projection piece online till now, I hope you all enjoy it!<br />
Please comment freely, It helps to work it all out!<br />
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