Trudging

07Sep10

Life has been changing, not sure if its changing quickly or slowly. At points I suddenly notice, like waking up in a new place. This work is definitely gathering speed. More plans have been made, I’m in different places physically, which is always good. I hate being stuck in the same place. But things are as always up and down, I’m more open about what this is now.

These frames are my sketches of future work, straight neg scans from a shite laptop screen, but I’m just concerned with whats in them. I have 126 miles to walk and photograph during; specific route, specific place.

I don’t want to do this but I’ve been questioned in the past and more recently of why I photograph and what I’m photographing. So those that ask me in the future will be directed here. I often find myself attempting to answer but spewing out a bunch of words that don’t really make any sense to anyone but me. I feel uneasy when I make a frame, and more uneasy with each one following; I’m drawn to this or at least drawn to the sensation of something different.

In the end what I consider to be my subjects are ‘nothing’ or ‘nothings’, at the time of capture I’m not concerned with what something is, but I am concerned with how it makes me feel. I used to photograph a lot and quickly but in the past few years I’ve slowed down, spent more time looking, and allow what I’m seeing to cause associating imagery or emotions flow through my mind.

In the end (it will sound cliched) but all I’m doing is attempting to get to grips with my own mind, imagination, dreams, thoughts and everything else that come with it.

In the end its all I can do, I couldn’t care less if it isn’t what I should be doing, I just do. Maybe it will stop at some point, I do have an expected time to stop, but you can’t plan these things. I could go on writing words, but I’d rather be making and looking at pictures, so here are a few recent ones:

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