I am jealous of my little sensations

‘I need my memories. They are my documents. I keep watch over them. They are my privacy and I am intensely jealous of them. Cezanne once said, ‘I am jealous of my little sensations.’

His Wife

'His Wife' by Emily Robards

A photo I took in the Adare graveyard with my Olympus-Om1 camera. I was always fascinated growing up by these little relics left on the grave sites.
In case you haven't noticed I have managed to put links in the right hand column to my other tumblr blogs. I created a new blog on tumblr which is for just my work, no contextual est.. and in no particular order. Hopefully it will allow for a wider audience and a bit of exposure.Its mostly photography at the moment but in time the work will differ. I have so much I can put up there so hopefully it will keep me going over the summer.
www.emilyrobards.tumblr.com

Austin Kleon

I found this artist called Austin Kleon. He does Blackout Poetry. I don't know if you remember some of the previous text works I did or if you have seen my other blog which needs updating, www.emilyrobardspoetry.tumblr.com , well its basically along the same lines. I never realized that this method of creating poems was called 'blackout poetry.' Its been a good discovery. He has also made a book 'Newspaper Blackout' which I have added to my long list of books to obtain.

Check out his tumblr site, which allows you to submit your own blackout poetry work!

 

 

 

110 Film

A while ago I found an old Kodak Instamatic camera belonging to my mother. It still had a film in it so I finished off the film and had it developed. To my disappointment, the majority of it came out blank. The problem with colour film is that over time the chemicals become unbalanced making the film in-usable. Lucky for me the shop didn't charge me for the developing as there was nothing to print from, but I scanned the negatives in at college anyway and managed to save these three prints that I believe I took of the Kerry mountains. I scanned them in under two different types of film, that is why some are blue and some are purple. The above image is my favorite.

Wile E. Coyote

Every Artist needs a cat to be Famous

I was sent this wonderful link of photos of Famous artist with their cats. Just goes to show you need a cat to make it in the art world. I have five so fingers crossed!

Frida Kahlo and friend, snubbed cat in background, Salvador Dali with his pet ocelot, Babou

Gustav Klimt with Katze, and Ai Wei Wei  with Lai Lai – one of his 40 cats!

Matisse with either Minouche or Coussi

Pablo Picasso with Minou

Andy Warhol, who once owned 25 cats, all called Sam

Tracey Emin and Docket

Cody Rocko

Another really good artist find. Cody Rocko is an American artist who does etchings, collage, photography, drawing est. Its so hard to choose which I like the best. Below are some of my favorite images.
Some major and minor influences include:
• Mundane Archiving
• Prose
• Astronomy, astrology, lunar cycles
• History of western North America, and other places, too.
• Joseph Beuys, shamanism and raw material
• Ghosts; traces; inhabitance of other dimensions

Sketches: Journals, ongoing

 

 

Matchbook Portrait of Deceased Woman

The No Legs series
hard ground and aquatint etching
5"x6" each