Above: Image from Songlines, Mixed Media Installation, Punt WG, Amsterdam (NL) 2012
Below: Collaboration with a Cow - pinhole camera photograph 21-6-2015 three month exposure
Trudi van der Elsen and Fiona Woods 2015, Reverse Mapping Shannon Estuary, Performative photographs - Collaboration
Published in Fiona Woods’ One Kind and Another www.fionawoodsartist.wix.com/collectionofminds.
SOLARGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS in ring fort Cahercon - east, west, south and north facing
21 March - 21 June 2015 Spring Equinox - Summer Solstice
SOLARGRAPHIC OBSERVATIONS in ring fort Cahercon - east, west, south and north facing
From 21 December – 21 March 2015, Winter Solstice – Spring Equinox
From 21 December – 21 March 2015, Winter Solstice – Spring Equinox
Songlines - 4 spirals - 2012
Songlines - stills - 2012
Shadow Dance - 2000
Shadow Song - 2000
FLOOR 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 , The four elements, earth, water, air, fire - 1991/1992
B & W Photographic works, 190 x 130 cm.
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BOG, exhibition at Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon 2010
Narcissus - Ophelia - BOG - BirchWood from the BOG series
BOG series 1991 /1992
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Her Own Song
The fascination and research on the bog-lands, was triggered in 1973 by a newspaper review of The Bog People, a book by P.V. Glob centring on the Tollund Man. The strange story of Tollund Man, and the Danish bog in which his remarkably preserved 2,000 year old body was found, made a profound impression on the young artist, although the photographs of the Tollund Man’s body in Glob’s book gave her the impression that the body was that of a woman! The atmosphere in those bog-lands and the tale of the mysterious Tollund Man were the inspiration for a remarkable and highly acclaimed photographic series.
“I was curious about what the bog people had experienced. I wanted to gain a better understanding of what Tollund Man and such people, killed and buried in bogs at that time, felt, heard and smelled when they disappeared in the bogs. So, as part of my research, I tried to reproduce the experience of being consigned to a bog, and documented the process. I followed a geological line of bog-lands through Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, making black and white still-shots which resemble freeze frames from an interrupted motion film. For me, the results were profound. The process had many remarkable resonances, and there were numerous connections with powerful, primal symbols which are fundamental to western culture. I was reminded of legends such as Narcissus and Ophelia and of symbols which have entered the western canon: the four elements (earth, water, fire and air), the four temperaments (sanguine, choleric, phlegmatic and melancholic). All these informed or found expression in the images generated by my research”.
Concept & Direction: Trudi van der Elsen.
Cameraman: Kees Grande