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Films and animations of paintings

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is an initial exploration of merging static images with moving ones, along with a prose* poetry audio track. These are old paintings, but they’ve given me some ideas. All of the elements are my own. *Every time I mention prose poetry, I look it up but I still have no idea. My working definition is that it involves text that doesn’t claim to be a poem but is structured similarly, uses words in a poetic manner – some of them unusual, flows like a stream that makes its own banks, and that has none of the rigidity of a … Continue reading Films and animations of paintings

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Subversion – personal painting, #rift

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I’m quite fond of subverting what might be described as genre output by juxtaposing or underpinning a relatively traditional piece with something that jolts it a bit. So when I came across an ad for a painting-by-numbers Van Gogh, my mind had already raced to an idea involving tracing and cutting out the numbered areas then enlarging and exploding them over an A1 card. But reality had other ideas. The schematic is printed onto the canvas which, unlike the ones from my childhood, is real and not a piece of cardboard. But even if it had been a firm surface, … Continue reading Subversion – personal painting, #rift

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Artivive in the wild!

Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I’ve mentioned the Artivive app before – it’s an app that calls up video hosted on their site and linked to a specific image. For now, it’s mostly used in galleries where lighting and connectivity are generally good. I used it for my contribution to our lane’s Advent Window fundraiser (for the local school) whereby one window a night is ‘unveiled’ and then stays lit for the rest of Christmas, which meant viewing in the dark from the garden in a village where mobile signals aren’t always great. It was a big test and it passed! Artivive has a torch … Continue reading Artivive in the wild!