#leavingportrait

detail from The Parting Cheer by Henry Nelson O'Neil 1861

Alison preparing the vaccum bag for a leaving portrait. String providing a fitting metaphor for the tangles and connections of people you take with you and leave behind

Alison adding to tabletop scribe i drew visualing her stories of leaving

Met a woman in town. She told me she was planning on leaving town to live in Spain. She's leaving like he parents did once and her grandparents before them. She's in a long line of Irish who left the island of ireland but came back in better times only to leave again. Voyagers? Emigrants? Leavers? Returners? What could they be called? She spoke of her reasons for leaving. Breakdown of community life being one. Facebook seemed to be an example of this, noone comes together like they used to she says

Day 3

Day 2 experiments