How distracting the moors are as you go towards Manchester on the M62! The road’s high and fast, and rises and falls around you like a roiling ocean. I was on my way there last weekend to take part in Word of Warning, an ‘Emergency’ event where I was putting up Real/Non-Real (the current manifestation of OffCutter) at the Castlefield Gallery.
The idea behind my work was to make a tabletop landscape of small sculptures, assemblages, mirrors, moving a camera through it so an image of the journey appears in an adjascent screen. I turn the camera on its side, suddenly drop the lens down, swirling the viewer around.
It turned out that when the camera ‘looks’ at itself on the screen, it goes crazy and behaves like an image in an infinite reflection, mutlipying and echoing its form. Gorgeous!!
There were lovely artists to talk to, and I had a wondrous time.
