is what I am having some difficulty with at present. This morning I have to put together the finishing touches to a presentation I am to give later today to students on the BA Fine Art at Nottingham University. As a taster the first image is that shown above. This is a rough composite of several photographs taken in Kegworth. I had purposely left my own village out of the first forays but with so much interruption to the project over the past two weeks or so the opportunity to get out on a particularly good day when I had other reasons to be walking my own territory was too good to miss. This is very much a 'rough cut' and may not even make it into the final selection. I am finding that I produce so many images and then make so many rough digital collages that there is a danger of overwhelming the process. The act of sending images for printing (a relatively expensive process) is a strong determinant however and hopefully will put a brake on the production flow. Each image is hopefully quite distinct and unlike every other in the project. It is this idea of singularity as regards the formal and the emotional characteristics that the body of work is intended to convey. A myriad of visual clues that only resolve themselves through the steady accretion of material.
Very soon I shall have over 20 of the canvases and 10 of the digital prints underway...sufficient number hopefully to begin to see how the totality will look.
