Pretty Dead Things

The Artwork and online journal of Madeline Graham.

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The Beautiful Rebecca Pattison, Rhiannon Ewing & Madi Graham featured in The Ulster Tatler January 2014 attending the Belfast Print Workshop Annual Members Show

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Today is the anniversary of her death. We have transformed so much in one year. Bless you lassie and rest in piece. Long may your beauty reign.

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Sound sleep, By christina Rossetti

Some are laughing, some are weeping; She is sleeping, only sleeping. Round her rest wild flowers are creeping; There the wind is heaping, heaping Sweetest sweets of Summer's keeping. By the corn-fields ripe for reaping.

There are lilies, and there blushes The deep rose, and there the thrushes Sing till latest sunlight flushes In the west; a fresh wind brushes Through the leaves while evening hushes.

There by day the lark is singing And the grass and weeds are springing; There by night the bat is winging; There for ever winds are bringing Far-off chimes of church-bells ringing.

Night and morning, noon and even, Their sound fills her dreams with Heaven: The long strife at lent is striven: Till her grave-bands shall be riven Such is the good portion given To her soul at rest and shriven.

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These images are a series of tests of my film stills against her. I plan to submerge her huge glass fish tank in a darkroom and have my film projected onto her bones depicting her glorious decay.  There will also be a series of my copperplate etchings. 

My degree show is on the 7th of june in the University of Ulster, belfast campus. I will post a film of the finished piece within the next few weeks.  All who read this are very welcome to attend :) 

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Scorpions are probably the only type of animal which can actually creep me out. But they do glow under ultraviolet light, which is pretty cool. One hypothesis suggests that this might be an effect of a scorpion’s entire body being able to act as a light receptor (an eye, basically), to help them stay in the shade.

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This is the film I made for third year printmaking In the University of Ulster. 

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Wild golden run 

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 Another piece from my underwater experiment series 

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Doppelganger 

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When I look at her from a low view point there is a mirror quality to the surface of the water which in this image, created a strange deformity in her skull. The dissolving bath bomb makes the photo look like its degrading.

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Onward bound 2

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A negative experiment with the original.