Official end

Today is the official end of this project.  Since 1st May until today 31st August, I have been charting my view from a Welsh hill.   

I look back over the blog and realise how the focus of my work changed.  Also how little I showed of my work in progress. This is mainly because most of the work I was/am trying to do is to organise a large scale installation on the quarry site on the Welsh hill.  This is an ongoing process which means I will carry on this project long after it's official end.  I still hope to have at least a date when I can install this work by the open day on 15th September.  

I have realised also that the nature of what I thought using film could bring to my work has shifted.  I am interested in showing movement not narrative.  And to use this as part of my installation  rather than recording something around me.  It is not documentary I'm after.  It's a way of re-focusing on the obvious - obviously!!  It's more about overlaying images projecting one on top of the other.  Recording shadow on created objects in order to emphasise 'something'... Creating alienation by revealing something in a new light making the viewer look again.  This is to do with scale and detail I think.  I don't feel I have achieved this in any of the films I've made so far.  That is also one of the reasons that this project will go on after it's official ending.

I have realised also that my approach to a landscape as a woman is fundamental to my work.  It means a gentle, quiet, poetic approach regardless of scale.