Landscape

More Burrell and a couple more things.

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Just exploring and continuing to return to some places that I felt some kind of attraction to is something that I have realized is part of my process. If I look at my many years doing this, either by photography or now sound, the bulk of my observation seems to happen within a 5 km range of where I live.

Part of it is probably that this is the only way we can access minutia with unyoking of attentiveness. How we can see the big in the small.

Two different coves, one same angle of approach. Different results, sometimes doing the same thing over and over yields results.

The root cellars (potato barns in New Brunswick) here are quite spectacular, I have seen several on Newfoundland and a few there. But I have not seen very many that make quite as bold a statement in their landscape as these.

Two doored potato barn.
The opposite of camouflaged. Not to mention a long way to get a turnip.

Watcher watching the watchers watching

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I am attracted to these sites and their apparatuses, as much as the idea of being able to get a closer look at something is attractive there is also an aspect of this that is essentially telling the observer where to look and what to look at. I always wonder to what extent this affects how the broader field of view as well as the observers own perspective is somehow directed. I think there is a value to simply discovering things of our freely exploring with our eyes.

Long Point Lighthouse, observation deck.

One of my favourite activities is to simply go somewhere I have never been, getting a little lost, feeling displaced and then using my eyes and ears to negotiate the terrain. This has been a very part of my work with photography, I choose odd places that I cannot immediately place a reason of meaning to. It is the experience that creates meaning.

Long Point Lighthouse, focus on the background.
Long Point Lighthouse, the platform.
Long Point Lighthouse, the setting.

4 images of the same 1 thing each one taken from a similar point of view each one projecting the subject differently.

Another day… Another noise…Another visual stimulus.

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Didn’t post last night, needed to rest a bit and watched the last episode of “American Gods”. There are aspects of it that I really engaged with.

Between that, and now I have obviously worked on my sound files, collected more video footage and would like to offer another instalment of “work in progress”. Mind you, for me, work is always in progress since it never ceases to evolve.

Newworld
Intermediate State… what is that space?

Durrell – 49.66° N, 54.74° W

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Close enough to Twillingate to be part of Twillingate, but it is it’s own place. Like most other places agglomerated to form larger entities to support services to the population, they maintain a sense of pride in their own community as its own entity.

I had an illuminating experience at the Durrell museum learning of the Arm Lads Brigade, my upbringing in New Brunswick did not expose me to these stories and I find them to be completely engaging. The idea of creating cultures of discipline and service have always been fascinating because of the way they articulate the social contract. I speak neither for or against, it is simply an observation.

A.L.B. : http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_stories/pm_v2.php?id=exhibit_home&fl=0&lg=English&ex=00000524

Stage / Cove / Rock
Rock / Neighbourhood / Sky
Winter Storage 1
Winter Storage 2