{"id":12124,"date":"2021-09-03T11:53:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=12124"},"modified":"2021-09-03T11:53:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T10:53:13","slug":"featured-artist-turlough-rynne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2021\/09\/03\/featured-artist-turlough-rynne\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Artist: Turlough Rynne"},"content":{"rendered":"

The adventure, the great adventure is every day to see something new emerge in the same face, and this is greater than any journey around the world<\/em><\/span>
\nAlberto Giacometti<\/span><\/p>\n

Finishing a piece is complicated. The decision is sometimes based on whether there are enough lines and shades on the page; everything is balanced. This generally means it is, compositionally, a good work or drawing.<\/p>\n

If you are fighting with it and grappling with too much shade or darkness, it can get tricky. In my process, I often cut up or crop drawings to improve their composition or remove an element that is not working \u2013 it\u2019s the last effort at salvaging a piece \u2013 and it doesn\u2019t always work.<\/p>\n

Some pieces stay in folders, unseen, invisible. Then there are drawings that can take less than ten minutes to complete \u2013 a quick adjustment in perspective or switch from pen to brush can alleviate any problems that were caused from the first attempt.\u00a0 In drawing, there is no right or wrong approach, and experimentation plays a crucial role in the process.<\/p>\n

Seeing images from different perspectives is fascinating. It was Goethe that said every new object, well observed discloses a new organ within us.<\/p>\n

So something new gets created or \u2018disclosed\u2019 when I photograph River House \u2013 a concrete office block near the Liffey in Dublin.\u00a0 When I collect the 35mm prints another new organ is disclosed.<\/p>\n

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Original 35mm print.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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River House I.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Same goes for when I sketch from the photographs, perhaps more than once, and when I unwrap said picture from the framer.<\/p>\n

Another new organ can be disclosed when I see the picture in different surroundings hanging perhaps on an unfamiliar wall.<\/p>\n

River House has since been demolished to make way for a hotel, another new object I suppose. Both the photograph and the drawing become part of the architectural history of Dublin, in a way an archive of an ever-changing city.<\/p>\n

It is often the architecture of cities that I am interested in, whether that be bridges, historical buildings, or their infrastructure.<\/p>\n

The Process of Creation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Every new object, clearly seen, opens up a new organ of perception in us<\/em>
\nGoethe<\/p>\n

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River House II.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Site of River House since demolition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This process of creation, image-making or mark making, changes how I see the original location.\u00a0 Having photographed and painted the interior of Dublin\u2019s General Post Office or Bus\u00e1ras, one of Ireland\u2019s most important modernist buildings, it is a treat to return to these spaces and see how they have changed.<\/p>\n

The experience of image-making changes my perception of the spaces also \u2013 having observed the object (for example the GPO main hall) I have the \u2018new organ of perception\u2019 is present when I revisit.<\/p>\n

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) posited sense data as \u201cthird things\u201d, standing between material objects and perceivers, and serving as the immediate objects of perception.<\/p>\n

Sense data are the things that are immediately known in sensation: such things as colours, sounds, smells, and so on.<\/p>\n

Russell used the object of the table as an example: \u2018The real table, if there is one, is not the same as what we immediately experience by sight or touch or hearing, is not immediately known to us at all, but must be an inference from what is immediately known.\u2019<\/p>\n

Russell wanted a new connection between sense-data and objects; a new conception of objects as logical constructions built out of or referred from sense-data.<\/p>\n

Objects themselves cannot be viewed as substances without sense-data, they alone are invisible.\u00a0 Everything we see is an image itself \u2013 a projection.<\/p>\n

My work is this third thing \u2013 the immediate object of perception. It is an effort to understand objects and how the brain perceives them by slowing down the process of visual perception, picture by picture.<\/p>\n

Turlough Rynne is an artist based in Ireland. For more information visit www.turloughrynne.com<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Further Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Giacometti: Sculpture Painting Drawing<\/em>, Thames and Hudson 1972
\nGoethe and the Evolution of Science
\n<\/em>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
\n<\/em>The Great Philosophers<\/em>, Arcturus Publishing 2008<\/p>\n

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General Post Office, Dublin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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