Propositions / Sensibilities (diary from the beginning (2010))
A project of nothing and nowhere. The act of a photograph conceiving emotional response. Figures of speech transferred into imagery. Looking for things that no longer exist in a place with no evidence of their existence. Presenting the view of a place where the view has no physical association to the subject. Suspended composition. Imagery may pretend to be something its not. May be completely non-descriptive. May have no purpose, meaning, association with viewers. Imagery can be nothing? Release. We may know about an alien place, may have seen it in artificial forms. Experience of an alien place evokes further interest, or none at all. The same wonderous thoughts a child would have imagining how a giant views the world. Cogito Ergo Sum. Confront an issue / subject and act as a confrontation at the same time. We walk in search of a story. The road unspools memory. Wild Flowers. The place I'm going has nothing relevant to me in it. It is a container, I will be contained. I want to be there now but when I'm there I want to be somewhere else. Existence of the body is perceived through the senses. Existence of oneself can be perceived by the thought of a place. I hate..but am dragged to it, like a bear and fiddler to a wake. Prophesising what has already passed, seeing nothing.
"I can't do it, they pick my brains so - why? They have cut off my head and picked out all the letters in the alphabet - all the vowels and all the consonants and brought them out through my ears and then they want me to write poetry. I can't do it."
John Clare