21st August 2017
183 fires photographed
I have been thinking a lot this week, there is too many things in this project, Is it about the walk? like Richard long. Is it about how the camera mechanically records the change in light over time, similar to John Hillard. Is it about sites of fires? a site of a singular event dispersing?
Is it about dispersion?
I think that the most successful art works, are pieces that through a process of reduction are distilled, compressed to an almost nothing, allowing the viewer to bring themselves to the idea and expand upon the concept.
I constantly remind myself of Carl Andre’s mantra -
Make one thing,
Be present in the process,
Become more aware of the universe and your place within it.
There are too many things in this project.
If it is about dispersion, I'm only creating an illusion of diffusion, by photographing and tagging the small bits of chard black wood and heat cracked stones. If it was truly about dispersion, I should chose one fire and document its dissipation, but then i would have to geo-tag all of its component as it dematerialized. In fact if it is really truly about dispersion, I should chose another material all together and record its ephemerality in an controlled environment.
I got to the concrete slipway (there after, the amount of fires increases dramatically), then I noticed, the beach is covered in charcoal. To truthfully record it would be impossible, yet again, as so often happens with by work, there is a problem with infinity.
I sat down poured myself a coffee.
There I decided that I would document, only the location of the fires, the places of change. There is no alluding to dispersion, it is contained within the pictorial frame and the mind of the viewer. Luckily, I had labeled the geo-tags of the actual sites with the letter “F” as if I had already known this was the solution.
The project is beginning to refine.
This would have to be walk one.
New Rule
Archive only the actual sites of transformation.