Ann Daly adaly@aya.yale.edu
BUILDING DRAWING I: “THE LITTLE EASE” Room within a room within a room. Smallest internal room is a plywood box, upright, approx. 6.5 ft tall and 3ft. wide. This internal box is drilled with 'viewholes' at various points within the body of the box. These viewholes will be difficult for an adult to bend to or reach towards--one will strain physically to be able to see out of the plywood box. When one sees out, it is with one eye only, altering depth perception. One looks out into a room within a room. The walls that one sees are projected with images of nature, of the bucolic 'landscape' or 'outdoors'. This 'outdoors' is nature resembling itself as it resembles pictures. Note: The 'Little Ease' was a middle age torture device-a horizontal box in which a person was enclosed, which was not long or tall enough for its inhabitant to recline in any position without some ‘folding’ of their body, without any 'ease'. The 'Little Ease' contorted and forced the inhabitant to its shape.
Ann Daly is a diverse media artist who lives and works in New York. Her work has been reviewed/published in Cabinet Magazine, Artforum International, The Los Angeles Times, PAJ/Performing Arts Journal, Artpress International, World Art Magazine, Multiplier, Voir, and other publications. She has exhibited in the US and abroad. Her installations have included Photography, Video, Sound, Narration, Drawing, and Sculpture. Daly participated in a discussion reconsidering Francesca Woodman's work, which was published in The Art Journal. Daly is an alum of the Yale School of Art (MFA) and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and is a recipient of a grant from Art Matters, Inc., and a John Anson Kittredge Fund grant supporting current work on Anti-monuments: A-view, A-wry (last year at...).
Ann Daly adaly@aya.yale.edu
BUILDING DRAWING I: “THE LITTLE EASE” Room within a room within a room. Smallest internal room is a plywood box, upright, approx. 6.5 ft tall and 3ft. wide. This internal box is drilled with 'viewholes' at various points within the body of the box. These viewholes will be difficult for an adult to bend to or reach towards--one will strain physically to be able to see out of the plywood box. When one sees out, it is with one eye only, altering depth perception. One looks out into a room within a room. The walls that one sees are projected with images of nature, of the bucolic 'landscape' or 'outdoors'. This 'outdoors' is nature resembling itself as it resembles pictures. Note: The 'Little Ease' was a middle age torture device-a horizontal box in which a person was enclosed, which was not long or tall enough for its inhabitant to recline in any position without some ‘folding’ of their body, without any 'ease'. The 'Little Ease' contorted and forced the inhabitant to its shape.
Ann Daly is a diverse media artist who lives and works in New York. Her work has been reviewed/published in Cabinet Magazine, Artforum International, The Los Angeles Times, PAJ/Performing Arts Journal, Artpress International, World Art Magazine, Multiplier, Voir, and other publications. She has exhibited in the US and abroad. Her installations have included Photography, Video, Sound, Narration, Drawing, and Sculpture. Daly participated in a discussion reconsidering Francesca Woodman's work, which was published in The Art Journal. Daly is an alum of the Yale School of Art (MFA) and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program and is a recipient of a grant from Art Matters, Inc., and a John Anson Kittredge Fund grant supporting current work on Anti-monuments: A-view, A-wry (last year at...).