VIDEO PAINTING

This project evolved after connecting with UK cyanotypist Catherine Orr online. The clarity and depth of her work, made with items collected from her local environment, made them inspiring source material for my experiments with electronic music and digital video processing. I see them as modern icons, ritual representations of nature streamed through the blue lens of the cyanotype.

I’m no longer using these constellations,But only pebbles as stars. The constellations are arbitrary,And it is the symbolism of the seed, The history of this mapping Within circular charts. Drawn along the shoreline By the cyanotype twins — A cluster of stars. (Additional ideas and words by Carolyn Thompson, Gigi Salomon, Carolyn Lefley, Carolyn Kennett & Stevie Cussons)

This project evolved after connecting with UK cyanotypist Catherine Orr online. The clarity and depth of her work, made with items collected from her local environment, made them inspiring source material for my experiments with electronic music and digital video processing. I see them as modern icons, ritual representations of nature streamed through the blue lens of the cyanotype.

A development from both my work on residency with the Royal Astronomical Society and with painter Hina Kahn. This work is based upon ideas of hidden symbolic structures being revealed within nature and cosmic phenomena. It uses 3D rendering of lunar textures and 3D motion design enhanced by a synchronised dialogue with electronic atmospheres and sound design.

Collaboration with artist Hina Kahn based on large scale ink drawings on paper / textile. Soundtrack constructed using Pakistan folk elements digitally process and augmented.

This project explores ideas of liminality with reference to borders both within landscape & cultural identity. Hina is a visual artist of Pakistani heritage who came to Ireland as a refugee. Both David’s and Hina’s work has a history of addressing this theme, and when the two met while in residence at Uillinn they formed the basis of this project.

A collaboration with Athlone artist Leila Henry — This work brings together the traditional skills and techniques of Leila’s work as a representational landscape artist using low impact materials of charcoal and paper, and the cutting-edge technological skills and digital processes of David's work.

A series of video icons centred around a re-writing of aspects of Grecian mythology — Helios has been Banished from the mind of man through the erosion of nuance, the God of the Sun is destined to wander the dark recesses of the forest of the mind, hiding his light for fear of discovery.