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The Making of a Sodabreadbookobject (10 Mins) Lucy Brennan (17005149) Bracha L. Ettinger James Joyce drawing and text textual drawing Ulysses James joyce feminism practice based research drawing and literature artworking psychoanalytic theory feminist theory matrixial borderspace drawing theory eco-Joyce Joyce Studies Molly Bloom drawing research Matrixial Theory Autoethnography Contemporary Drawing The Making of a Sodabreadbookobject is a ten-minute documentary film. It documents a practice-based research process undertaken as part of Molly | Feminism | Drawing: A Practice-Based Enquiry into James Joyce's Ulysses (1922), a PhD project by Lucy Brennan Shiel, Loughborough University.The film records the making of a Sodabreadbookobject, a transdisciplinary artwork developed through drawing, material practice, feminist theory, and autoethnographic reflection. Presented within the thesis as Drawing in the Expanded Field, the work explores how artistic practice can function as a mode of enquiry and knowledge production.The Process begins by shredding the final episode of Ulysses, 'Penelope', Joyce's episode centered on the main female character in Ulysses, Molly Bloom, referencing both Homer's Odyssey and a traditional Irish soda bread, used by the artist's mother. The shredded text is combined into a bread mixture and baked upon the remaining pages of the book at 180 degrees centigrade to form the Sodabreadbookobject.The work brings together feminist interpretations of Molly Bloom, Bracha L. Ettinger's Matrixial Borderspace theory, and reflections on Irish cultural identity, memory, migration, and inheritance. As an Irish-born artist who has lived in the United Kingdom for almost four decades, Brennan Shiel employs autoethnography to investigate the relationship between text, material transformation, and embodied knowledge.The documentary demonstrates how the physical reworking of a canonical literary text can generate new forms of visual and critical engagement. It contributes to the project's central research question: How can a feminist informed praxis of drawing lead to new interpretations of Molly Bloom and James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)? This film documents a process work and is itself considered research data, generated through artistic practice. This film should be viewed alongside Volume II of the thesis visual portfolio.Created in September 2026.© Lucy Brennan Shiel 2026-09-22T07:50:56Z Dataset Media 10.17028/rd.lboro.32181111.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/media/The_Making_of_a_b_i_Sodabreadbookobject_i_b_10_Mins_/32181111 CC BY-NC 4.0 Open Access after 2027-09-22