Art Portfolio: Catherine Telford-Keogh

CATHERINE TELFORD-KEOGH

The Rusty Toque | Issue 12 | Visual Art | June 30, 2017

Look Inside and You Will Find Me: A Five Minute Body Scan
5:03 min
2015

Allow your muscles in your face to relax, drop your shoulders and inhale deeply
Open yourself up to the world
Shift your consciousness to the movement of your breath
Rising and falling, in and out, evenly and effortlessly

Please position yourself in a place and posture where you can comfortably feel and see from a place of security
Take note of your diaphragm
Become aware of your ribs, expanding with each breath and gently contracting as you exhale

Gently bring your consciousness back to the heat of your body
Become aware of sensations of warmth in your hands and your fingers as they move up and down your thighs

Allow feeling to precede cognition
Let your muscles relax and let go of thinking
Imagine yourself radiating certainty, success and optimism
Bring touching and feeing to the fore of your conscious body

Reach out and feel what is immediately around you
Register your body’s autonomic response
Continuing on autonomously from moment to moment

Imagine yourself radiating self-assurance and possibility as you purchase your new home, new placemats and fresh carpets

If you so choose, slow down your breath only at a rate that is comfortable to you
As you do, notice the pleasure of the warming sensation of relief as it travels down from your nose, down your diaphragm to the bottom of your body

CATHERINE TELFORD-KEOGH received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University (2011), MA in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from Yale University (2013) and her BA in Studio Art from the University of Waterloo. Her work examines the visual and material language of objects and their relationship to the the body through sculpture and video. She has participated in recent exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, Bronx Museum, NY Art Book Fair at MOMA PS1 and the Greenpoint Film Festival in Brooklyn, NY. catherinetelfordkeogh.com

The Publisher of The Rusty Toque is offering a six-week online short fiction workshop starting in January 2019.

Click here for more info or contact Kathryn Mockler via email.

DESCRIPTION
In this six-week online course, award-winning writer, editor, publisher, and creative writing instructor Kathryn Mockler will lead you through the process of idea generation, drafting, and revising a short story. Each week you will receive writing prompts and readings, and you will participate in the fiction workshop.

Format: This course is live and will take place online through video conferencing. This is a workshop-based course where you will share your short story with the class and receive constructive feedback on it from the instructor and the workshop participants.

THE RUSTY TOQUE

Rusty Talk
Rusty Recommends
Archives

ABOUT

Masthead
Mission
News

CONTACT

Newsletter
Contact The Rusty Toque
Chapbooks

The Rusty Toque was supported by the Canada Council from 2015-2017

The Rusty Toque would like to acknowledge the sacred land on which we operate. It has been a site of human activity for 15,000 years. This land is the territory of the Huron-Wendat and Petun First Nations, the Seneca, and most recently, the Mississaugas of the Credit River. The territory was the subject of the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an agreement between the Iroquois Confederacy and Confederacy of the Ojibwe and allied nations to peaceably share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. Today, the meeting place of Toronto is still the home to many Indigenous people from across Turtle Island, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to work in the community, on this territory.