The final stretch of the course is upon us and I have a sneaky feeling time is going to speed up from now until August and the final show. I am still wrapped up in experimental mode and resisting the idea of having to make decisions on the form of the final show.
I collected the pinhole cameras and dissapointingly only one (the one placed in a clearing in the woods) showed any image. They had been left for a month and I think the light levels were too low and alot got covered with snow, also the pin hole was maybe too small for the light levels. I was so looking forward to the results and travelled through icey conditions to fetch them. I will contine trying, it is part of the process afterall.
I did have one insight from the failed work. I realised the act of weathering on the film paper interested me as much as the image. I like the notion of the place having a part in the art. I like Carolyn Shepherd’s recent blog entry on a similar subject; the historical resonance of found materials.
