Bernadette Duffy -Reflection

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My work is about the feeling of being in a particular place at a particular time. It is about reconnecting with the natural world we are part of, finding the magic in the familiar and the mystery in the everyday- 'a way of living the ordinary while experiencing the extraordinary’’ (Lippard 1997:15).

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In the Reflection project I explore my response to the garden pond, in particular its reflections. I find myself fascinated by the reflected light on the water and prompted to reflect on the meaning of reflection.

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In myths ponds and their reflections are often seen as places of transformation - not always for the good, and self-reflection-sometimes dangerous self-absorption. They are places where it is possible to enter other states of being and gain new insights.

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Drawing and painting at the pond from dawn to dusk and into the night, has led me to ponder on our relationship with nature, including human nature, and with time – ‘’the sense of being in these times and out of these times at the same time’’ (Smith, 2013: 24).

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​Web site www.bernadette.duffy.com

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References

Lippard, L. (1997) The lure of the local-sense of place in a multicentred society New York: The New York Press

Smith, T.  (2013) ‘Our’ contemporality ? in Dumbadze A. and Hudson S. (ed) (2013) Contemporary Art : 1989 to the present  Chichester:Wiley-Blackwell