After presenting my Peer Review at Fabrica and showing mock ups and photocopies for the first time beyond the home front, my thinking is clearer. I answered some of my own questions. What am I trying to say? What is important to me? What fits the space? (- and if money was no object?) The group help me answer more….Why am I doing two bodies of work (when only one is clear in my head?) I have been working with layers in recent work, is it enough to have one? – and is a photocopy enough!? The day after the review I went back, to 1992, and my own limited edition. It’s all about narrative (my life before layers)
I have been sneaking in test drives in camera shops over half term and am on the verge of a Canon. With my head in dusty B&W photography I’m waiting to hear about when they are going to clear the flues at the Engineerium-not quite the same but…
‘Step into that cage which hangs over a yawning well away up at the Goldstone Waterworks;-permit yourself to be lowered into Plutonian darkness; and at the bottom of the well you shall have a new experience. You shall not plunge into the cold bath you expect:- for your sake, the mighty engines up overhead have pumped the wells dry, so that you may undergo the strange experience of taking some lengthy walks eighty feet or more under the surface of the Earth, and may witness some novel effects of illumination.’ The Brighton Herald May 28th 1904
