Micro, Macro, Interconnected, Views & Relations.>>>>return to my Dookie COVA Art and Ecology Residency Field Notes
Further Development
I so much enjoyed and valued this residency time and was determined to make the very most of the opportunity. Grateful thanks to all that allowed me to float around and even risk making a pest of myself at times. I found that I really wanted to capture and record and make as much material as I could in the time available. As someone who loves solitude and still has some level of quiet, even shyness, it was fascinating and revealing how much I missed my usual social interactions, partner family, friends, home garden and pets. However being able to get up early in the morning and not have to worry about anything much else other than just working on my own chosen artistic exploration and making was a supreme intense luxury. I'm hope helpful that this intensity of activity and focus has produced something interesting and useful already, and more importantly has cultivated new seeds of ideas and explorations in my work. Im hoping that fledgling that some of these interconnections and interactions will continue to grow. I actually found it somewhat overwhelming to start sorting through almost terabyte of video sound and plant recording projects from this four week residency. I am happy to have produced what I hope to be potentially engaging audiovisual experiences with an exhibition home somewhere, at least online if nowhere else but I can also see the value of a type of residency engagement that spent more time in conversations and observing without necessarily this same focus on tangible immediate outputs-my personal goals might include more patience and restraint ! After mentally preparing for this residency with over 12 months of covid delays and re-schedules, a priority for me was to record and capture observations of elements, details and overviews of the natural landscape in as many forms of audio and visual media as I could. As well as the already edited sequences I still have a very large number of files to still sort through...definitely some failed experiments, dross and mistakes amongst them but on the other hand one tiny image or sound may spawn a whole new idea when the right moment and context appears sometime in the future.
Some specific project explorations that I hope to take further are:
• finding suitable exhibition contexts for presenting this work in
• the further use of digital microscope images,
• creating a new work developing my batch of photos of the gnarled trunks of the old olive trees
• planning a collaborative installation combining inter-connected plants, audio and visuals
• and other ideas still only vague or yet to appear or emerge , from the fog of feverish activity
Some specific project explorations that I hope to take further are:
• finding suitable exhibition contexts for presenting this work in
• the further use of digital microscope images,
• creating a new work developing my batch of photos of the gnarled trunks of the old olive trees
• planning a collaborative installation combining inter-connected plants, audio and visuals
• and other ideas still only vague or yet to appear or emerge , from the fog of feverish activity