rubber stamp printed on Lokta Nepalese handmade paper.
Weaving the country lanes collecting fallen leaves and cones, chestnuts and conkers - inspiring this season’s rubber stamp print.
Lots of love and autumn blessings from Mog xx
Mail Art Responses to Cabin at Road Books
Last October 2020 I sent 14 handwritten postcards to friends back in the UK with an invitation to respond to the 14 films I had made over the 14 days in Garravagh. Co. Cork, Ireland. Thanks again to Judy and Peter at Road Books for been amazing hosts.
And thank you so much to everyone who responded to the films through music, collage, photography, print, poetry, spoken word, textiles and drawing. Today the 14th October 2021 felt like the perfect day to celebrate and share the Mail Art responses.
With Love from Mog x o x
Summer Gifts
Three colour rubber stamp printed on Kitakata Japanese paper. 14.5cm x 14.5cm
The blackbirds have been singing in the garden. The bumble bees busy in the honey suckle. The sparrows chirping in the hedgerows. The roses in full bloom and hearts of the water lilies are wide open and all the colours of the rainbow fill each flower. The abundance in nature during the summer is magnificent.
I am currently focusing much of my creative energy on making music and films which I am really enjoying. I am continuing to make the seasonal relief prints but at the moment these are exclusive to Silver Birch Patreon supporters. The third print in the Seasonal Print series is a rubber stamp print ’Summer Gifts’. A mandala of nature inspired from waterlily pads in the pond, flowers and rose petals from the garden and a walk in a wheat field. To find out more about becoming a Silver Birch supporter see my Patreon page.
To view the prints see the Patreon Prints page on my website.
Best wishes, summer sunshine and blessings from Mog x o x
Stones To Lough Fada Part 2
Click image to see Stones to Lough Fada Part 2 (15m56s)
STONES TO LOUGH FADA PART II
My memory takes me back to walking on this wild open landscape in West Cork last October. I imagine walking the same route during this month of May. Frieda had told me about the fierce wind called the Scairbhín (Scaraveen) that blows in from the East during the months of April and May which can cause so much destruction as it passes through. All that hard work on the land can feel futile when a landscape that has taken time to grow and nurture is instantly blackened and broken from this harsh powerful wind. To be here as a visitor and see it all as idyllic and beautiful, it is good to be reminded that to live here requires tenacity, determination and a lot of strength and patience. To have a willingness to deal with such a loss and start all over again is admirable.
Abstracted Soundscape
Here is part 2 of Stones to Lough Fada with the addition of slowed down flute recordings, recordings from the sea at Gortgariff and the voices of eleven participants all layered into a collage of abstracted soundscape.
It was lovely to hear the voices gradually coming together as I layered them into the timeline. Editing the piece was an interesting process in itself. It felt similar to arranging a piece of music but with the parts already written and just finding the right places to tweak the volume to allow certain words to glow at different moments. Either on their own or flowing in and out, finding moments of synchronicity and harmony to a crescendo or clashing of words dissolving into whispers.
Feedback from one of the participants after watching the completed film was so beautifully observed as
"a weaving of time and timelessness, bones brushing against each other’s memories and laying down with the sky.” Mel Shearsmith
THANK YOU
Thank you Frieda Meaney, Nikki Seren, Suzanne Iuppa, Pete Judge, Jan Edwards, Adrian Price, Andrew Price, Sue Mara, Diwas Dewan, Patrick Graham, Mel Shearsmith, Carien van Hest, for your beautiful voices and words.
Thank you Frieda Meaney for placing the stones.
Thank you Frieda Meaney and Hans Leptien for time and space to explore the landscape.
Thank you to all my Patreon supporters with special thanks to Guy Malkerson and Ari Malmberg.
Photography and sound produced by Mog Fry © March 2021
Spring Blossom Woodcut
Since my post ‘A Winter Woodcut’ I have made a few updates to the Silver Birch and Hawthorn tiers on my Patreon page. As a Silver Birch supporter as well as some other lovely benefits, (inc. access to melodic meditations on Native American style flute) you will receive a seasonal handmade mini relief print four times a year. This will either be a woodblock or rubberstamp print. To find out more about being a Silver Birch supporter see my Patreon page.
The second print in the Seasonal Print series is ‘Spring Blossom’ printed on Kitakata Japanese paper inspired from the cherry blossom at the centre of a young orchard of 33 fruit trees in the local community field near my home.
The Seasonal prints series is exclusive to Patreon supporters. To view the prints see the Patreon Prints page on my website.
Spring blessings from Mog x o x