Digital reflections during ‘lockdown’

Only being allowed out once a day for exercise I have been walking in the Co. Antrim countryside. It has provided a much needed escape from being indoors and the quiet, often solitary walk brings a certain calmness to my state of mind.

I have used photographs and video to capture the variety of colour, pattern and texture within the environment. The diegetic sounds of birds, wind and my footsteps help to place the viewer on the path, documenting more accurately this daily routine.

The video below is a collection of photographs and video captured during the ‘lockdown’ put in place due to the COVID 19 pandemic. Here, I have explored the effect of light through glass and have blended this with a meditative bilateral drawing in pencil.

Digital filmmaking & Art Therapy

In this recent work, the artist-filmmaker is exploring what it means to be an identical twin. This short film sequence includes video footage, childhood photographs, and watercolour paintings. It is significant to point out that before the editing process each image is a piece of work in itself, they are over-layed and juxtaposed to convey meaning.

Click on the ink to view the film:

https://vimeo.com/373486090

 

Rosy Martin: Phototherapy

http://www.rosymartin.co.uk/too_close.html

http://www.rosymartin.info/inhabiting_image.html

Inhabiting the Image: photography, therapy and re-enactment phototherapy

European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling        Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2009, 35–49

Photography, this ubiquitous medium that most people use and that has the potential to be democratic, too often ends up as a repetition of conventional iconic images. However, photographs offer up the possibilities of a slippery surface of meanings and potential narratives for the viewer, which are the rich veins that phototherapy explores. Therapeutic work with found images and alternative visual diaries is discussed. The traditional family album as a repository of partially explored memories is contrasted with its role in constructing a mythology of an ideal. The evolution of re-enactment phototherapy, the creation of new photographic representations through performative re-enactments within the therapeutic relationship, is described. Since the gaze is fundamental to a photographic exchange, theories of the gaze and identity formation are briefly mapped. The therapeutic gaze, the performativity within the re-enactment phototherapy session and the importance of embodiment and transformation are discussed, and the notion of the process as a form of creative adult play. A case study is included to illustrate the methodology. Why and how these new photographs can be used within the therapeutic process is explored. The questions arising when this work moves from process to product are considered.

(full article found at http://www.rosymartin.info/inhabiting_image.html)