Ok, so it's a bit bare bones to build a narrative around, but the light on the screen of my French windows is faintly cinematic, reminiscent of the scenes Gregory Crewdson builds, or those Prada odds that had such an impact a few years ago...
There's nothing speaks of Lancashire - home of the industrial revolution and the place I grew up - like an old chimney stack. As I've noted, telephone/telegraph wires speak to me of America, the western frontier. Odd to think these things are as archaic as one another by now.
I've taken a series of images for the website of Olivia, a restaurant in Austin. This isn't 'pretty' enough for use there, but I like it's gritty quality as a documentary image....
I was born in Manchester, England.
As of Feb 2008, I'll be spending the majority of my time in Austin, Texas, having spent the past seven years in New York City, and a decade prior to that in Los Angeles.
The point here is images, not words. I spend enough time with words as it is.
So: I want to both challenge and free myself to engage the visual aspect of my 'creativity.' I intend to post images several times per week. Occasionally it'll be an old image, but mostly it will be something that caught my eye that particular day. The sacred, the profane, the (hopefully not too) mundane.
It's not about me, per se, though obviously something of my aesthetic should emerge. I'm not re-inventing the internet, posting a visual record, but here goes: freestyle.