This week was very busy, if the weather was right I was out capturing sites. I achieved quite a lot and I’m nearly there with finishing the project for Living Legacies, just the captions and printing to finish. I also returned to War Memorial NI and had a look through their archive of artefacts and images relating to WW2. I would love to include this element into my project but I’m not sure if there was enough content. As many of the artefacts are from one person, see ‘Project Development-7’ for the types of things from Mr Thompson who served as Aircrew throughout WW2. I captured them with ambient light on a piece of hessian cloth as I thought that would be better than just a black or white background. I also found some aerial images of the some of the airfields when they were in construction, which I will attempt to work with.
Whilst visiting the War Memorial NI I popped into Belfast Exposed Gallery, as it was the next street along. There were a couple of exhibitions on at the time, the one I found most interesting was ‘The Invisible In-Between: An Englishman’s Search for the Irish Border’ by Tristan Poyser. The work looks at the hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland, which potentially could be created by Brexit. The information sheet says “The materiality of the boarder is shown through a physical tear, making the invisible, visible.” I think this work is very interesting especially that he has chosen to make a physical tear after the image has been captured and then separating the image just enough to create a white space. Poyser has created a border by showing one side of the street with opposite side. This works very well and especially in this gallery, as the corner of the walls has been incorporated within this installation. It is slighter harder to make out the tears along the image on his website but none the less, conceptually you still understand the effects that Brexit could bring.
Installation at Belfast Exposed featuring images by Tristan Poser The Invisible In-Between: An Englishman’s Search for the Irish Border
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