#047: The Impassable Place

Three dots arranged horizontally.

                                                    One           (horizontal)          line.

One dot.

#046: Teenage Years

 A cocoon.

#045: Building Blocks (Pre-memory)

A beautiful haze of colours and sounds with occasional clarity.

(Maybe a room, inside which viewers can sit or lie down as projected colours swirl around the walls.  Within these are occasional scenes, typical of early childhood, in different states of blur, but none fully in focus.  Similarly, there are snatches of words and phrases, indistinct and removed from context.)

#044: At birth

A blank canvas in a frame.

A plaque underneath asks, “What was your frame like?”

#043: I don't exist

An outline portrait of the subject on a piece of tracing paper.

Overlaid are other shadow, or outline, pictures of scenes from the subject’s life that each leave a space for the portrait to show in the centre.

There are so many overlays that the sides merge into blackness while the subject can no longer be seen.

#042: Wherever the river may take you

Find a river, follow it.  

Sometimes you lose your own way and need a well worn path to follow, through whatever terrain you need to traverse. Making your own path isn't always easy, sometimes you need it laid out until you find your own way again.  Another way to fill up your canvas, another way to find ideas.  When you need to, when you find the right course, sail your own ship once more.

#041: The Art of Looking Through Windows

Every time you have time (especially if the window is new to you):

Stop and look through it.  Really look through it and at everything you can see.  Work from top to bottom and side to side, finding things, seeing things, noting things and build up the entire picture.  

Take time and take it all in.

Is there a story to be told, a film scene playing out; or is it a still (or a gif) landscape?

Try looking from different angles; try taking a few steps back or forwards, and look from further away or nearer: how does the view, how does the story, change?  

Try from the other side, if possible, if safe, and look in, instead of out (or vice versa), and repeat the process the other way round.  Don’t try looking into other peoples’ homes or offices, though, please.

If you cannot see through, if it’s only reflecting you, then treat it as a self-portrait. 

Or, if what you need is blankness, then just stand and stare, take in nothing of the scene and think.  This way lies true infinity.