Windows at Abbotsford Convent

 As part of an excursion to Abbotsford Convent with NMIT Visual Art department I took these photos which I think evoke a certain atmosphere. Ambiguous and slightly disturbing

Decay and sadness at Abbotsford Convent

 What sadness and misery are absorbed in the walls of this institution

Image and Text Assignment for NMIT

Have been working on a Photomedia assignment where we have to combine images and text.
I took some digital photos of Abbotsford Convent  that I shot earlier in the year, converted them to black and white images, inverted them and printed them onto acetate, Then took them into the darkroom and printed them with the text of the Magdelane Laundries by Joni Mitchell.
I then coffee toned the images,
Now I have scanned them so I can put them on this blog.
I guess I could have done it all in Photoshop - but the journey was interesting.
My goal was to evoke the misery and suffering that occured at this convent.

Sense of Place Final submission

I hope I have captured the grimness of the Abbotsford Convent

New NMIT assignment

Sense of Place is the theme - to convey a mood or an atmosphere.
I am looking to show the stoney coldness of Abbotsford Convent.

Other 'Sense of Place' images

This was a place of great piety and cruelty.