Involution
Significance
The photographs that I upload here aren’t random. They’re the ones which I feel carry what I’m calling ‘significance’. This doesn’t necessarily mean that they mean something, but that I feel that they might. They’re a record of a brief flash of something that catches my mind as well as my eye. Many of them are urban because I’m in a city five days a week. Many of them are natural because that’s often the stuff I’m paying attention to. Some are both urban and natural, because that’s a sort of double whammy that feels like it’s doing something.
The pigeon wing on the pavement, for instance, had that overlap, and conveyed concepts like death, the persistence of effects after death, memory, the danger of urban environments, the passing by of most people without noticing, and something I’m not quite able to put in words about temporary-ness of phenomena, even when they’re physical.
The poppies among the wheat, at Castletown, are more natural - while still being in a crop field. This picture is around concepts of harvest, intentional and unintentional consequences, landscape, and the provision of food.
The how-to-make-a-flail-joint display, from a tiny agricultural museum in Wales, shows how something that’s simple can be strong. Again, harvest is invoked here, but also craft, playing to the strengths of something, and the creation of tools that might also be weapons.