To take mobile lines with me and use them as a way to respond to the environment.....This was the agenda when going out and bringing back these photographs. Reading John Wylie's 'Landscape' (Wylie, 2007), these installations appeared to me as static (and stale!) landscaping 'devices', being no other than doing what landscape painting always did: Bring in a viewpoint and using a frame.
Intriguing three-dimensionality as a result of storing my drawings. It reminds me of folding fabric, storing it in piles on shelves, and the 'hanger appeal' that garments stored on coat hangers are said to have....
Drawing on the go....easy to be done in a practical sense but how do you maintain this feeling of continuity of movement....? Maybe make the stops an integral part of the journey?
It was pretty hard running, and looks nothing like it. The gap between having experienced the movement and watching its recording is quite striking.
Moving about outside is one thing, ....making drawings, and recording 'it' is something else.
It seems a contradiction wanting to use drawing to record an experience of movement when you have to stop with the moving, in order to do the recording. And then, to sit down and make drawings, being in this static state, from what you see around yourself? A somewhat unsatisfactory endeavour.
It was quite a surprise to see what happens if the screening speed of this short video of a run was reduced. Though astonishing in its visual and sound qualities, it made me wonder how our bodies manage to process the sensory experience of such a movement sequence.
Taken nearly a year ago, this video seems to raise questions about the relationship between video screen and the action recorded.
One of my first attempts at recording moving images in references to the experience of being out on a run. I attached my phone to a rope, and whilst running, pulled phone and rope behind me. The phone scuttled over the ground, looking upwards into the trees. In the final stages of the video, I lifted the phone up from the ground, and, still dangling from the rope, which made the phone spin along the vertical axis of the rope.
The video made me question viewpoints, viewers, the mediums of recording, the content of the video, all in relationship to a running experience. Whose viewpoint does the video record? The phone's? The runner's? Does it capture the running experience? And if yes, the running experience as seen by the runner or seen be some other agent?
