Felicity and I look at the footage we have of Montauk Point Lighthouse in relation to the one-minute film we made from our visit to Orfordness Lighthouse To the High Light in June. The images we took at Orfordness Lighthouse were […]
Felicity and I have decided to make another short film to accompany the one we made at Orfordness Lighthouse in June. So we spend the time we have at Montauk Point Lighthouse capturing moving image material in and around the […]
I feel a bit like a moth to a flame. The rotating light at Montauk Point Lighthouse is mesmerising. I could watch it for hours. Felicity and I return to it with cameras charged and ready. The current light is […]
The approach to Montauk Point Lighthouse is strikingly different to that of Orfordness Lighthouse. At the Ness the structure punctuates the horizon, seen from miles inland and public access is very limited. Here at Montauk Point, the lighthouse isn’t visible […]
Felicity and I review our images, film and field notes from the past week. We have a lot of overlap; I think we tend to be drawn to the same visual imagery even without discussion. So we set about sifting […]
Today is only the second time I have given up on a walk (if you don’t count the decision not to go to the end of the Ness of Burgi). There have been several days when I have decided to […]
I have started making some very small pieces indeed. I generally have a fondness for working on a large scale. At home in North Wales I usually feel comfortably enclosed within the landscape: high horizons, high hedges and banks, trees, […]
Living in a lighthouse is paradoxically both reassuring and faintly unsettling. I’m not living in the round bit – I’m in the assistant keeper’s cottage, which is built square with small sash windows and a flat, leaded roof. The lighthouse […]