a commonality..

I've been going through lot's of my things and pictures on the computer, and throwing lots of things away. It seems I feel the need for a fresh start of sorts now that all deadlines have passed. The value in this in terms of the work I'm producing is that it's giving me a broader sense of what my work involves itself with. Not only was there something fundamentally in common with the work I'd produced at Chelsea so far, but random one off photos I taken over the past three years or so too. That commonality was an unknown interest in the element of chance and the passing, or sharing of responsibility to an external element - be it the way water moves, the fabric soaks up the ink itself without application, decay takes over buildings. It's my nudge towards, but then m inaction that is important.

This thinking all began with a tutorial where it was observed that there was a feeling of trying to access something outside myself. I suggested maybe, that it was a modesty, that maybe there is in an arrogance in an artist wanting to direct everything themselves and so letting world offer something beyond myself was a form of modesty. I considered honestly whether it might be my lack of confidence, not brave enough for the responsibility of making all the decisions, but that doesn't sit right. Being open to what might happen by chance not only allows for unique pictorial elements that may have been unthought of, but also accesses something more and beyond - a higher place. And that's important.

Below is a group of photos I've taken over the years. Essentially it's a study of natural light, but it also explores a level beyond human methodology. And it seems I've been studying it without knowing all this time...