Home – Karl Mooney

On a summers day you still might find me lying on the grass looking at the sun through a blanket

Art projects, speculations and works in progress by Karl Mooney from 2020 to present.

Artist Statement

working towards a coherence, A ‘finished’ thing. Most of the good stuff happens when you are rolling, when you are not looking, its a little frenzied, anxious even. a duel with your belief in yourself and your many failures i guess. When I work I try to stay in the moment, I guess thats a fancy way of saying trust your instincts because your ego or your Intellect gets in the way…

pushing the elements closer to the heat of the line and trying to avoid moving too close to the vulgar or indelicate.

RANDOM GALLERY 3

Travelling from North County Dublin in the direction of Grangegorman. Reflections on the train window, landscapes passing by. Text is an interpretation of ‘Do you Love me?’ by R.D. Laing. One of the last pieces my mom played before dimensia caught up on her.

RANDOM GALLERY 5

I am working on some animal heads with a wire armature and newspaper.

RANDOM GALLERY 1 (3D)

handmade slides

Ongoing project with transparencies. ADDING ELEMENTS, WIRE, NETTING, THREADS, glass, hair, ink etc ETC ETC TO blank 35MM SLIDE holders. Maybe transfer the finished slides to video. In my tests what I found interesting was the very fragile items trembled because of the projector fan, interesting in an Otherworldly analog KINDA way.