As part of my project I am going to realise a longtime fascination with sound and plan to use sound and projection as part of it.As such I have been making recordings of the road.I see it as part of the aural interest alongside the images of car less roads. It creates a rhythm and ambient layer to the visual texture of the images.It’s still a work in progress and I’m still experimenting with how I will use it. I like the idea of rhythm so may play with the speed and tone to create a kind of music focusing on the beat and rhythm incorporated with repetitive conversation or aural history collected from the people I may meet in the next phase as I meet more people in my pursuit of what makes community.
As it stands at the moment I thought it might be useful to use what I have purely as a technical excersise by making a short film around the detritus I have been photographing when going on my daily walks during the Covid 19 lockdown.
I have been amazed at how communities have been communicating and opening up to each other with generous offerings of free toys,books,even Coca Cola cleared from over spilling bulging cupboards, alongside the carelessness of dumping PPE and the potential damage to wildlife and the environment.On one hand the kindness and beauty of human nature mixed with the selfish uncaring side of some, the sunshine, blossom and relative quietness does make for an interesting time of reflection.Short film below.
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