london day

murmur returns







can you see the drones in the last one?...

moon water reflection

back at shapwick heath

some stills this time

amazing reflections and hypnotic formations again

only 3 weeks left before the murmurs are over til next winter
love the delicacy of the way some of the murmurs photos have turned out. tweaked things a bit in iPhoto, the cooler tint is realistic and adds to the chill dreamy quality of the 'blue hour'.


There's a certain voyeuristic nature to watching these formations, it's an experience that my video work is trying to capture and that I'm having to distill down and analyse as the course progresses.

The noise, the goosebumps, the involuntary smile, the wonder.

It's all based on being there when something else is doing something, about being present and outside at the same time.

murmurs in paint

scanned A2 work in white ink on sugar paper, detail

inverted image

creases and light

white light tracing paper and below paper over sugar paper, tone and exposure altered

experiments in wax

tissuepapergraphite

tissuepapergraphiteoverlayingsugapaperwork

blackwaxcrayon murmurs on black sugar paper

trialblackcrayon white ink wash

                                     

white indian ink wash black crayon

murmuring still

still from video




struggling with the video edit
decisions around: exposure, sepia tone,timings, 

technicalities of exporting still from imovie

playing with sugar paper and white ink

poor quality images

3rd one was started with eyes shut

enjoying the repetitive shapes and natural looking forms from using brush

able to produce blurred, 3D like illusions from repeatedly painting over same marks

some marks looking like bird forms

starlings roosting, stills from project

shapwick heath still from film 11.1.15

stills from moving image work

decisions to be made about mood, abstraction, audio

sound recorded too distracting

above images no saturation - original footage overcast tint too yellow. prefer B&W more atmospheric...hopefully adds to hypnotic malevolence of the starlings movement when settling down and roosting

ongoing research into artists working with video, framing, audio and video 'painting'

easy does it

the plan:

to come unstuck in the new year and gear up for next project

. it's all about the light, white. no colour, right? 

the rules:

1. white objects out and about. on screen they won't be white but that's a rule that's a grey area

2. no tinkering with photos. allowed more that one snap. But that's it, no altering the image other than cropping, exposure and tinkering with tones.

3. indefinable.

the point:

none yet. no depth here. but to get my mind twitching and shaking about what's around. i don't do draw but point and shoot.

gold syrup

starting point
codeine linctus in bottle
sweet dreams
warm glow
the drugs do work

still from video project