Often it’s what is unwanted, the residue, that is the most interesting. The hollowed out fruit skins, the melted candle wax, the paint stains from print making. Simple images, that we overlook in our quest for the real, the authentic accurate entirety. In this case, it’s the wood shavings from […]

    Somehow a quick unedited email or text just doesn’t resonate like the slap of an envelope dropped through the mailbox. There is no (or very little) ritual to writing via electronic mediums. We don’t gather pen, paper, envelopes and stamps. There is no tactile experience of the handling of the paper, no smell […]

‘Space is more abstract than place. What begins as undifferentiated space becomes place as we get to know it better and endow it with value.’ Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience by Yi-Fu Tuan     These past few days teaching has really made me rethink the concept of ‘space’ and ‘place’ and how […]

    Is it just me, or is there something more poignant and yet beautiful about natures passing? Why, when the first image of this clematis flower is so stunning, am I drawn more to its demise? For me, the first image is so dazzling and overblown that it confuses me. Its intricacy and subtlety […]

            Once you isolate and frame something you give it reverence. The item inside the frame takes on special meaning, it infers ‘ look at me’ it assumes a position of importance. This frame spans eighteen years. The first image was taken today, the second eighteen years ago. In these […]