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meander / ashridge

1/11/2020

 


"dead calm, then a murmur, a name, a murmured name . . .”

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Beckett

meander / alban way, hertfordshire

31/10/2020

 
"I think perfection is ugly.

Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion."


​Yohji Yamamoto

mapping a watercourse / grand union canal

29/8/2020

 


Pairs of images made at every lock passed on the grand union canal heading south from Berkhamsted

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"... and from each issued the faint phosphoric radiance of decay"

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Edgar Allan Poe

sirens

26/8/2020

 
Picture


"The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering."


​Deleuze

mapping a river bed / ver / blueprints

9/8/2020

 
An exposure every 10 minutes along the course of a river / 480 minutes / 48 exposures


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"What I see is nothing - I want what it hides - that is not nothing."

​Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, 1966

meander / hertfordshire

26/7/2020

 


"A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening.
If one listens to them silently for a long time, this longing reveals its kernel, its meaning."

​Hermann Hesse, Wandering, 1920


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the lost ones / 36 days / 36 circuits of a field in hertfordshire

3/7/2020

 


'Monotony has nothing to do with a place;
​monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person.
There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.'

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G. K. Chesterton, Alarms and Discursions, 1911



exul_postscript

15/6/2020

 



“It's a kindness that the mind can go where it wishes.” 


Publius Ovidius Naso, The Poems of Exile: Tristia and the Black Sea Letters, AD13
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exul

8/6/2020

 
Picture


drowned.
hearts,

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pulling


the mouth
of the land,


to draw breath,
as breath left,

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holding

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artists books  / edition of 13

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anthologia / a dictionary of flowers

1/6/2020

 


"Earth laughs in flowers"

​Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya, 1846


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witherings / narcissus

16/5/2020

 

“Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it,
​we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss,
 an end, a darkness. Nothing.” 


Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes, 1962

anthologia / from a dictionary of flowers

15/5/2020

 
Picture


“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in"

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Victor Hugo, Les Misérables, 1862



Picture

one night in rye

10/4/2020

 
Picture


“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”

​Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1963


erasure / ashridge

29/3/2020

 


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"I see black light"


The last words of Victor Hugo, 1802 - 1885
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Picture

still life / displaced forensics / meditations on a palm sized rock

6/3/2020

 


​​“We observe few objects really closely. As we walk on the earth, we observe the external events at two or three arms' lengths. If we ride a horse or drive in an automobile, we are further separated from the immediate surround. We see and photograph "scenery"; our vast world is inadequately described as the "landscape." The most intimate object perceived daily is usually the printed page. The small and commonplace are rarely explored.” 


Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, 1983
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“Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!” 

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Winfried Georg Sebald, Vertigo, 1990

erasure / bricket wood

7/2/2020

 

‘Before it can ever be a repose for the senses, landscape is the work of the mind.
Its scenery is built up as much from strata of memory as from layers of rock.’

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​Simon Schama, Landscape and Memory, 1995

towards a premise / publication

26/1/2020

 
Picture


The product of an eight month collaboration with artist David Foster available for pre-order at Inside the Outside


below the brine / mapping an intertidal zone / river thames / jan - dec 2019

21/1/2020

 


                                                                         unknown                              Soundings

                                                                     remote depths-



                                        still secrets in the deep


inhabit the strata

                                                                                                                    plots weaving
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The above works were derived from images made in the River Thames intertidal zone between Blackfriars and Millbank throughout 2019.
Processed collectively in 2020.
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​23" x 36" / Hahnemühle German Etching ​

earth_air / composites / hertfordshire

17/1/2020

 


“I used to measure the skies, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was sky-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.”

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Johannes Kepler (epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died), 1630

erasure / one day, one night / east sussex

4/1/2020

 


‘It is black, indifferent; it sidles away from human utterance. It is too far out in the unbidden world to reach. To desire it is to be humiliated.’


Tim Lilburn, Living In The World As If It Were Home, 2002


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