Warren Lane

There's a change in the air

I've got to get this done before the tide comes in...

Were the literal words of the man pictured doing this repair work to sea defences on Gorleston beach last week. Last week on a late afternoon repairing storm damage from earlier in the year. It's all a question of time isn't?

Oh what a performance....

Flegg High School Martham last week

Engaging with the landscape

On sunday I walked from Hopton on Sea to Southwold and back. This round journey took fourteen hours to complete. A distance that I would roughly equate to walking to Norwich from the village I live in. The time and the distance themselves alone being secondary to what I wanted to achieve. Which was to actively engage myself with the landscape through experience for narratives. By that I mean rather than blandly just stand there and indiscriminateatly take images try to activly intereact with the landscape itself. A photograph could just be something you take just from the inside of a car or from a building.
This shoreline is very interesting in the way it negotiates its existance with the all pervasive sea. Pictured above is a dead tree still standng at South Cove on the way to Southwold. In the distance you could make out the spire of St Edmunds and Southwold pier. Even Sizewell nuclear power station was visible from here.

Must start to use a tent to achieve greater distances. But travel light and life becomes easier. I was using just a two megapixel Kodak camera and my Pentax P30T film SLR. On this day there was very little cloud until walking back on this sunny summers day. This journey needs to be repeated for the reasons of what was missed, to be continued, a change of weather and the time of day.

In passing (part 2)

Democracy is a joke...

Atleast I had the chance to vote Green in the european elections...as for the local elections what a sham...just a choice of three non entities who don't represent anything that I stand for...I had hoped that the sploit ballot papers might have got through...but alas...

Sorry for the late news...

In passing (part 1)

Week before last I showed three films at the Club Uniquity at Someleyton. Sitting at the back watching the people I am reminded why I like making films. Good to meet Jason Parr who I will also be making a film with in the near future. Also a sculptor he was playing some music and performing one of his poems. He also like me plays more than one talent for creativity. I met more poeple I hadn't seen for ages. It's good to get out there and press the flesh.

In Reflection...

Self Portrait in a discarded television Lowestoft

The path forward

Clear evidence of the ever tangible erosion of the East Anglian coastline. Only recently my footsteps contributed to this groove in the grass on the cliffs. The newer footpath being used is seen on the right of the picture. Till that falls into the sea as well in due course. As will the village of Corton which can be seen in the distance. Consulting the cpies I have of the first ordinance survey map of 1883 there was more houses which have fallen into the sea. Infact from that map you can clearly see how much even in that short space of time what has been given to the sea.

Beltaine 2009

Watching the sunrise on Beltaine

Good time was had by all around the fire

as we watched it

rise from the darkness...

#blognor09 All for a quid

All for a pound

#blognor09 Project our thoughts onto it

Beneath

In shade

Underneath

Out of sight

#blognor09 Capricorn

cool façade

internal processes

complex

mathematics

#blognor09 One of a thousand Bus stops

Three separate narratives converge at a point of time and space.
Is this a start, a continuation or an ending?

#blognor09 Warren Lane

Whilst walking down Warren lane
it appears to be snowing
or so it seems...
A blizzard of white
drifts towards me overhead..

Every New Dawn Fades

Today is Earth Day a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth's environment.

Still waters run deep.

New growth in the garden. But this New Zealand Flax in my front garden appears to be a silent witness to what is happing all around. Silent save only for the gentle breeze that moves through its leaves.

It's all words

Caught this image whilst working on a new spoken word film. Which is a collaboration between myself and Andrew Smazogz and Fiona Hall. We've worked before but this time it is just the three of us together. Can't say when it's finished but when it is it will be something special.
Everything is words... whether as images, sound or thought or should that be the other way around... ? The benefits of working with other people can't stressed enough. It's like having multiplying yourself to get something better

Beccles the slight return....

Did a walk and return from mine to Beccles along the Angles way again. Starting from midday the weather was good and I really had broke my boots in before hand. Perfect to try this if I could walk back as well. Also trying some shots with my film camera that I had noticed from the previous attempt. More oportunities made themselves availiable as I became aware of what I had missed previously. Arriving at Becles at around 5.30 I was successful in that I could return home. Only making a short stay for what is possibly one of the few chip shps to open in East Anglia. Eating my chips in the seated area just outside the Caxton Arms I am thinking if I should return in the direction I have come from. Yes I do and in the enveloping darkness as the sun setts it is quite well lit by the moon light. After several stops to eat and water I made my way home. So twelve hours later since I had started reaching it at Midnight via a slightly differring route along the cliff tops over looking the North Sea.

With this distance I have covered Norwich is attainable and realistic.

So anything is possible...

Aprils Fool

These boots will get me somewhere.

...from Norwich

...and even perhaps from London

....if I am that inclined

...from somewhere

...to something thing

...Everything I do

...is about footsteps along the way.

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