Also, here are some pages from my sketchbook from a trip to the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland (well, just one of the islands - Inis Mor):
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Monday, May 16, 2011
Charleville Castle and Aran Islands sketches
While visiting the "most haunted" castle in Ireland, Charleville Castle, a couple of months back, I made a series of small drawings in one of my sketchbooks. Here are some of them:
Also, here are some pages from my sketchbook from a trip to the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland (well, just one of the islands - Inis Mor):
Also, here are some pages from my sketchbook from a trip to the Aran Islands off the west coast of Ireland (well, just one of the islands - Inis Mor):
Animation work
Over the past 5 months, I was studying abroad in Ireland (through my school, MCAD). One of the courses I had was "Independent Project", which involved weekly group meetings with the MCAD teacher who was also there for the semester (Pam Valfer) and the other MCAD students there, and then individual meetings with Pam. The project itself required a proposal written before we even got to Ireland, but once there, we were free to go in any direction we wanted to. I ended up doing a series of experimental animations, using charcoal and collage, that each involved some reaction I was having to the Burren (the name of the region of Ireland I was in). Finding a way to set up for each of these was a bit of a challenge, as the facilities at the Burren College of Art aren't quite what I'm used to at MCAD... Ok, I'm talking enough, here are the animations I made ("Foggy Night" - actually made for another class (Mixed Media) but it relates to the other three in some ways, "Tomb", "Wall", and "Burren and Home" - and that's the order I made them in):
"Foggy Night" and "Tomb" were both made on the wall of an empty classroom with only the regular ceiling lights of the room for lighting (which is why they flicker a lot - I'm not entirely okay with the effect but I don't hate it either). "Foggy Night" was made for my Mixed Media class, for an assignment that simply had the prompt "Journey", and was based on a walk home from the school I made one foggy night, by myself.
The subject of "Tomb" is Poulnabrone, a "portal tomb" monument in the Burren, built thousands of years ago and with the purposes still uncertain. "Wall" came from me experimenting with cut-out, wrinkled/painted pieces of tracing paper, and from my interest in the many stone walls in the Burren. "Burren and Home" combines imagery from my dreams, the landscape of the area I grew up in, my fear of tornados and floods, and ruins of man-made structures in the Burren.
Foggy Night from Dylan Davis on Vimeo.
Tomb from Dylan Davis on Vimeo.
Wall from Dylan Davis on Vimeo.
Burren and Home from Dylan Davis on Vimeo.
"Foggy Night" and "Tomb" were both made on the wall of an empty classroom with only the regular ceiling lights of the room for lighting (which is why they flicker a lot - I'm not entirely okay with the effect but I don't hate it either). "Foggy Night" was made for my Mixed Media class, for an assignment that simply had the prompt "Journey", and was based on a walk home from the school I made one foggy night, by myself.
The subject of "Tomb" is Poulnabrone, a "portal tomb" monument in the Burren, built thousands of years ago and with the purposes still uncertain. "Wall" came from me experimenting with cut-out, wrinkled/painted pieces of tracing paper, and from my interest in the many stone walls in the Burren. "Burren and Home" combines imagery from my dreams, the landscape of the area I grew up in, my fear of tornados and floods, and ruins of man-made structures in the Burren.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Irish Studies - Field Trips
Here are various photos from the field trips we take for Irish Studies, every Friday. These photos come from multiple weeks.
The following are all from February 11th, on a trip to Prehistoric sites in the Burren.
barely visible remains of a prehistoric tomb:
old wall running alongside the road we walked to get back to the bus (from the tomb site in the previous photo)
Glacial erratic boulder:
Two photos of a wedge tomb, and then the remains of another type of tomb (I forgot the name) which we had to crawl and walk through much scrub and bushes to get to (very much off the beaten path).
At the top of a decent sized hill, with a great view. I think the bus brought us there (we didn't climb, from what I can remember). Dustin and I got some photos of ourselves with friends.
Didn't know it at the time, but over a month later (March 25) we would climb the rounded mountain visible in the distance.
This next group are all from a trip to various pre-Christian and early Christian sites, on the 4th of March.
There were some very cool carved faces (some human, some animal-ish) in the arch to this one door. Unfortunately I forgot the name of the ruins (it was a church), and the age, and whether our teacher (Gordon D'Arcy) said anything about what the purpose or origin of the faces was.
Some remains of towers
Another church
This was a neat old, slightly leaning, and quite tall tower that we did not stop at because it was raining quite hard at this point in the afternoon. Neat to look at, though. I couldn't see the top of it from my seat in the bus but Dustin was on the closer side and shot a few photos through his window.
The next batch are all from a trip we made to a mountain (Mulloch Mor - I think that's how it's spelled). We climbed to the top, rested, and then back down the opposite side. The views from the top (or even halfway to the top) were beautiful and amazing. Then we walked on a famine road back to the main road, and the bus came and picked us up. At the very end of the trip, there was a brief stop to a site where, long ago, some Christians held services outside, away from others, because I guess they were being prosecuted at the time (it's the photos where there are some standing stones visible).
Big turlough:
Black lichen:
The land surrounding the mountain, and some evidence of coral on rock (from very, very ancient times when the ocean covered the land)
Flowers
Part of the way up the mountain
next several are at the top area, I think
Some trees on the way down the opposite side:
Standing rock alongside the famine road (we were now all the way down the opposite side of the mountain).
View from our final rest stop at the end of the famine road, and views of the mountain from this side
the final site we stopped at (mentioned in the beginning of this group of photos)
The following are all from February 11th, on a trip to Prehistoric sites in the Burren.
barely visible remains of a prehistoric tomb:
old wall running alongside the road we walked to get back to the bus (from the tomb site in the previous photo)
Glacial erratic boulder:
Two photos of a wedge tomb, and then the remains of another type of tomb (I forgot the name) which we had to crawl and walk through much scrub and bushes to get to (very much off the beaten path).
At the top of a decent sized hill, with a great view. I think the bus brought us there (we didn't climb, from what I can remember). Dustin and I got some photos of ourselves with friends.
Didn't know it at the time, but over a month later (March 25) we would climb the rounded mountain visible in the distance.
This next group are all from a trip to various pre-Christian and early Christian sites, on the 4th of March.
There were some very cool carved faces (some human, some animal-ish) in the arch to this one door. Unfortunately I forgot the name of the ruins (it was a church), and the age, and whether our teacher (Gordon D'Arcy) said anything about what the purpose or origin of the faces was.
Some remains of towers
Another church
This was a neat old, slightly leaning, and quite tall tower that we did not stop at because it was raining quite hard at this point in the afternoon. Neat to look at, though. I couldn't see the top of it from my seat in the bus but Dustin was on the closer side and shot a few photos through his window.
The next batch are all from a trip we made to a mountain (Mulloch Mor - I think that's how it's spelled). We climbed to the top, rested, and then back down the opposite side. The views from the top (or even halfway to the top) were beautiful and amazing. Then we walked on a famine road back to the main road, and the bus came and picked us up. At the very end of the trip, there was a brief stop to a site where, long ago, some Christians held services outside, away from others, because I guess they were being prosecuted at the time (it's the photos where there are some standing stones visible).
Big turlough:
Black lichen:
The land surrounding the mountain, and some evidence of coral on rock (from very, very ancient times when the ocean covered the land)
Flowers
Part of the way up the mountain
next several are at the top area, I think
Some trees on the way down the opposite side:
Standing rock alongside the famine road (we were now all the way down the opposite side of the mountain).
View from our final rest stop at the end of the famine road, and views of the mountain from this side
the final site we stopped at (mentioned in the beginning of this group of photos)
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