This John Constable painting immediately reminded me of some photographs I made in 1988 (see my posting in response).
I had driven south in a hired car during half-term vacation from the college where I was teaching photography.
During that journey, away from my home town of Birkenhead, I'd spotted this oak tree, alone in a Wiltshire field and just had to stop to photograph it.
On the previous day I had taken a detour to visit the poet Tony Dash and his family, who (coincidentally) were then living in Malvern Link, Worcester.
My posting is one of the few shots of the noble tree that I made then using an old Mamiya C3 camera and colour (reversal) film. Mostly I used 35mm black and white.
Tomorrow I will post a portrait that I made then of the aforementioned poet. Perhaps something about it will resonate...
The e-space lab project is exploring how internet connections between people in diverse urban and international contexts can enable a dialogue that helps make more meaningful a reciprocal representation of what the conditions of actual everyday life in different places really are. Many of the ideas, illusions and misrepresentations that shape our understanding of where and how other people live in places different from our own can fall away in this kind of dialogue, and also be replaced by a live and ongoing pattern of multiple alternative representations. The forms that we use range from the human voice (by Skype or phone), text, text messages, and images produced by digital cameras and mobile phones, video of course, and even to web pages and podcasts. We like to engage with these forms in a process of dialogue and exchange, using whatever resources are available, and exploring the potential of new tools as they come on stream, especially streaming video. As artists we are especially interested in the role the arts play in valuing practices and the human qualities that shape everyday life in the different places we find ourselves.
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This John Constable painting immediately reminded me of some photographs I made in 1988 (see my posting in response).
I had driven south in a hired car during half-term vacation from the college where I was teaching photography.
During that journey, away from my home town of Birkenhead, I'd spotted this oak tree, alone in a Wiltshire field and just had to stop to photograph it.
On the previous day I had taken a detour to visit the poet Tony Dash and his family, who (coincidentally) were then living in Malvern Link, Worcester.
My posting is one of the few shots of the noble tree that I made then using an old Mamiya C3 camera and colour (reversal) film. Mostly I used 35mm black and white.
Tomorrow I will post a portrait that I made then of the aforementioned poet. Perhaps something about it will resonate...
Sean
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