Fox=Cow is a project comprising of 8071 photographs automatically generated by a wildlife camera, intermittently over a period of two years. I enlisted the wildlife camera, like a subcontractor, to produce photographs for me that I had no time to make myself. As a full-time carer for my mum and minder on the family farm, the camera enabled me to sustain an art practice while I committed time to caring for others. The automated camera blindly, unsympathetically, and sometimes poetically went about its work, arranging the farm into sections, sequences and sets. Mirroring the repetitive and often glitchy nature of the camera, text-works also inform the project. These short texts are often in an unfinished state, or sometimes, are worked and reworked over and over again. What began as a practical solution to personal circumstances has evolved into an ongoing exploration of care, labour and technology.

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Fox=Cow is a work in progress and was selected by an international jury for PhotoIreland’s, New Irish Works Programme. Further information on New Irish Works can be accessed here.

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