Val Bolsover
We continued our Skype-enabled collaboration in which photos had played an important part in documenting both our sources and our responses.
Photoshop allowed me merge two representative images, replacing a fence in Jo’s landscape with a sea groyne from mine. As the fence and groyne trace a similar path across their source image the groyne looked quite at home in the green Yorkshire hillside.
In fact the groyne looks so right that no-one notices it isn’t the right sort of fence for the landscape. Initially we see what we expect to see, especially in a familiar situation.
Our joint meanderings through different countryside miles apart show a shared vision of landscape textures and forms. A little pedestrian perhaps, but the restrictions of this collaboration have nevertheless pointed me along some traditional art paths where I don’t normally wander.
