ORAL HISTORY ARCHIVE:
MARY MCINTYRE
Interviewed by Richard West
Location: Artist's home, Belfast
Date: February 2014

Still taken from: 'Art of the Troubles - Mary McIntyre'

Still taken from: 'Art of the Troubles - Mary McIntyre'

Chapter 16:

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Chapter 16 Synopsis:

  • Photographs of mist inspired by film 'Come and See'.
  • Scene in the film when atrocity is covered by mist.
  • Related mist to previous image made of stage curtains called 'Space of Doubt'.
  • Also inspired by experience of mist in Venice.
  • Mist photographs are a depiction of the threshold in your mind.
  • Photographs at night are more about things emerging from darkness.
  • Has religious faith but works are phenomenological rather than religious.

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