Thinking process-

What do I want my piece to say? How will the viewer be effected by the work? Was that my intention?

I have been looking at artists that use video/moving image as a medium and the origins of their ideas.

I can’t help but connect with artists who seem inspired by Surrealism and Dadaism.

I find in, Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion’s, “The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer,” (2006) there are hints of surrealism shown through a distorted view. The use of Craig Armstrong’s composition, Memory Takes My Hand has a huge impact on how the work is viewed.

By taking into account what to film and what sound to use, directly contributes to how the work is viewed. The piece is presenting how short human life is, compared to the constant flow of the Earth spinning.

Dalziel and Scullion

I have been thinking about using my own photographs to create a series of videos.

I hope by using these images It will help me with understanding my past and certain things that have happen.

Brian Blomerth –

Merging his “underground comix style with heavily-researched history” in 2019 in Bicycle Day

He is an illustrator, cartoonist and musician based in Brooklyn. His work has been on many album covers such as Ryley Walker: Golden Sings That Have Been Sung (2016) –

Album cover – by Brian Blomerth

But in 2019 he published his first full length book called Brian Blomerth’s Bicycle Days

Photo taken from mood board
Photo taken from mood board
Photo taken from mood board

He has researched Paul Stamets, a mycologist and author and the leading voice in mushroom advocacy (my kind of man.) His lectures and presentations have deepened the worldwide conversation around medicinal fungi. His most recent book, Fantastic Fungi: How Mushrooms Can Heal, Shift Consciousness and Save the Planet is something that interests me a lot and he has also named numerous new species of psilocybin.

Paul Stamets recent research has led to discoveries in sustainability and immune enhancement.

I have recently been taking a lot of photos of mushrooms-

They have always been something I enjoy.

Images taken from my IPhone.