PORTALS TO PRAYER
aerial + dance and filter, work-in-progress
This journey began with my illustrations and my age-old connection to some kind of mostly feminine being that lives in the woods by my homeplace in the uplands of Wicklow. Myself and Liing worked together on Threshold Ritual Haunting and our collaboration investigated and brought to the screen some of these influences. We had spoken about holograms and visuals playing over me as I danced on the aerial silks.
Now, funded by the Agility Award 2021, Liing took my original illustration and with AR Spark and other programmes created my filter for Instagram (this is the easiest, free, accessible AR filter platform available to the normal income-earning human)…the final filter is not ready quite yet.
Scroll down for the portal aerial and dance initial experiments, mentored by dancer and musician, Jade O’Connor.
PORTAL FILTER EXPERIMENTS
My illustrations AR sparked by Liing Heaney funded by The Arts Council, Agility Award
ILLUSTRATIONS
My original drawing of the filter:
dandelion puffs; moths; lichen; white blood cells; roses; the body; Lough Gealláin; honey bees wings; bubbles
Marker and pen illustration, mythical map
detailed study of dandelion puff
honey bee and bumble bee wings detailed
red blood cells and wind on water in the Burren
Burren College of Art, + Residency
PORTAL AERIAL + DANCE EXPERIMENTS
Jade O’Connor, came down to Wicklow and we workshopped some of my inspirations, which include the Queen Medb images below.
- the importance of intention
- being in service to the work
- the pelvis is leading
- what is the narrative going around in my head as I move? What is my mythology?
Inspired by these images of Queen Medb
Queen Medb
J.C. Leyendecker
Medb Relieving Herself
Louis le Brocquy