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With its back tight up against the rise of the woods, and its chalky face looking out over the meadow, the Widow’s House is effortlessly photographic – or do I mean, cinematic? Every time I visit France, I take another photograph of this silent, empty dwelling, drawn to it like an illustration in a book…
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A final set of images inspired by the prompt for The Kick-About #46, a quote from Gaston Bachelard in which he observes there is much more to a house than its geometry alone. I went looking for alternate landscapes in my home, which could speak to the realities of habitation and human activities, and finding…
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In my quest to identify further shameful surfaces in my own home for the purposes of producing some new work for The Kick-About #46, I looked to the kitchen and bathroom, environments characterised by their constant use and various accretions. What I enjoyed about these images in particular is the way they play their games…
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A third collection of photographs produced for The Kick-About #46, making indeterminate landscapes out of those shameful corners of my own home, wherein crumbs, dust, fluff and other errant fibres collect in silent disavowal of cleanliness and good housekeeping.
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Looking a bit like the skeleton of a some primordial beast, the remains of an old groyne poke up through the low tide at Seasalter, taken back in 2008.
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A second collection of photographs inspired by The Kick-About #46, which saw me lying on my belly and folded into the neglected corners of my home, spotlighting the lunar landscapes of dust and fluff I found there.
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My response to this week’s Kick-About prompt – an observation by Gaston Bachelard’s observation on the true dimensions of a house – was in part, inspired by a recent re-watch of Street of Crocodiles by The Brothers Quay, a stop-motion animated short in which the miniature world on screen is characterised by its grime, dust,…
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If our last Kick-About together introduced all of us to subjects far-removed from our daily lives and wonderfully esoteric, this week’s prompt, courtesy of Gaston Bachelard, returns us to more familiar spaces, as we explore together what makes from a house a home, and between us producing new works in a short time.
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I was sitting in the garden of a small, rustic restaurant in rural France when this photograph was taken, seated under a large tree with coloured lights threaded through its branches and drinking from a small cold glass of Pineau. The sky was pink, my camera struggling with the failing light, and so producing softness…
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A final set of Kick-About #45-inspired photographs, produced in response to the challenge of trying to kick-start a small celestial body in the confines of my narrow terraced house… In some of these images, you might think I was photographing a gilded shell or similar as my subject, when in fact you’re looking at the…
Red's Kingdom 