Daily Prompt: Million-Dollar Question

Why do I blog?

Better question: [When I get around to blogging…], why do I blog?

1. I really, really, really want to save the precious process that is informing, influencing and directing my artmaking.

2. I want to learn more about the way I think.

3. I like the thought of a blog acting on behalf of a physical journal/sketchbook, and the aesthetic of digital word beside digital image on crisp white space.

4. A blog affords a 4D form or time-based digital documentation of process, which better highlights the web of connections influencing my practice.

So, I need to make a serious commitment to regular posts. Hopefully you will continue to watch this space to see if I succeed.

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Image by dampoint

Weekly photo challenge: ‘Beyond’

The current WordPress weekly photo challenge asks bloggers to share a photo that invites viewers to look ‘beyond’.

The photo below is one I took of a dusty floor. In it you can see footprints, drag marks and water spatter. But I could also see a landscape image in the dust in the floor, and that’s why I took it. I thought that it would be an interesting digital project to enhance the landscape image I could see. So here is the beginning of that project …

Future landscape in dusty floor
Future landscape in dusty floor

Using Flickr Creative Commons images and Photoshop, I have begun to build in the background. The images I have used are here as thumbnails:

planet_th1   planet_th2Photos by cosmobc

planet_th4Photo by ~Brenda-Starr~

Dusty floor: development 1

Here is the result. More to follow!

Developing the landscape No.1
Developing the landscape No.1