Almost invisible installation by architect Junya Ishigami at the Barbican, watch the movie here.

The installation deals with the creation of space using a barely there material.

Compost Pictures, Photoworks, Nigel Shafran

The subject is closely framed corner of a kitchen.

While these images deal with the everyday domestic existence these representations 

are very much of lived in the present that recall the routines of the mundane, barely noticed.

Design Observer

Home a poem by Diana O’Hehir

Erased off the face of my earth, all that remains is a white space,
On it the possible ghost
Of roofline, window. I travel
Looking for myself in all the empty rooms
That say, why did you leave us.

Country of no-one. An open door, a dropped book, a photo of 
                                                          me at the age of four.

I wait for myself on the stairs,
Touching a hand along the walls,
Move up behind myself, saying: Stop that.

In the upstairs room is the memory of another solitude; it once
Made bright oxygen that raised my ribcage,
Touched against the insides of the windows, glowed out,
filled up the whole house

To roofline, timbers where now my own ghost climbs,
And sparrow swings in under the roof ridge
Her wings beating
Searching for something she’s hidden there.

An interesting poem which relates to the thoughts of the unoccupied house project Transportation

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater residential mountain retreat redefined the relationship between man, architecture and nature.

Contemplating my own FallingWater Series its interesting to consider the juxtaposition between a man-made material and nature and the effects one has on the other together with the unpredictable outcomes of working in an outside environment.

Paul Bailey’s book commissioned by fashion designer Natalie B Coleman where some of the settings for the shoots is in an unoccupied house reminds me of my final project for my Post Graduate Diploma in Multidisciplinary design in an unoccupied house entitled ‘Transportation’ which I would like to turn into a book but as a e-book as a way to finalise the project and bring the different elements of the project together.

The documenting of past lives and spaces, the temporary installations placed in situ and the final light sculpture using cardboard boxes.

Transportation Project

Falling Water Series in a changed location, a pool where the tide has gone out leaving a shallow pond behind. The material sits more on top of the surface of the water displaying surface tension. 

Photography Careers in Focus

4 Photographers Anthony Luvera, Dragana Jurisic, Liam Campbell and Stephanie joy  discuss their careers to date and the possibilities of different avenues of income and some of the complexities involved in working with disadvantaged groups of the homeless, emigrants and poverty.

Also Extended 5 year projects of allotments of which will evolve into a book and the challenges of the diminished sector of the wedding market. Varying levels of presentation skills from the non-existent, devoid of knowledge of presentation applications.

Kevin Gaffney & Sally- Anne Kelly work “Leaving a Vacuum and our Internal Navigation Systems Fail to Work”  is a photographic and video based project. The starting point for their research is the rich histories and folklore specific to Japanese forests. They are interested in the forests as spaces where subtle exchange can take place between reality, reconstruction and mythological imagination.

Falling Water Series photographs 2011

Tree Museum, a public art project in New York by Irish artist Katie Holden which celebrates the communities and ecosystems along the grand concourse in The Bronx. Visitors can listen in on local stories and the intimate lives of trees offered by current and former residents among them architect Daniel Liebeskin.

Preview Essay Trees and The Bronx by Robert Sulllivan on public work on New York which discusses public art from Anthony Gormley, Christo and Olafur Eliasson’s New York City Waterfalls which I visited in 2008.

A photo of my photograph of New York Waterfalls