Today bright sunshine. And a trip to the garden, my first this year and since the snow. It is mostly brown bare branches, snapped or broken by the wind, limp leaves, crumpled, dried pods. And cool, damp earth. But occasionally the pink hint of a new bud, a rustle of a bird in the bushes, green grasses.
I took a reel of slide film, this time with the ‘glimpses’ piece very much in mind. Looking for forms and compositions that might make similar patterns to the vertical colour-bands of the poppy stalks – or stand out like the thorny rose-stems – when projected, overlaid and zoomed in on. It’s reassuring to have that process to guide me and I can be more selective with my shots.
