The last vestiges of hope

“Always at the back of my mind as I created the images was the thought that this work ephemeral though it might be could very well survive my own demise. I wanted above all to create something that gave hope with beauty.”

I thought of dance, my poses are dance related, I am nearer to death than I am to my birth. I used what I see around me, what I am familiar with for my images and altered and merged them and incorporated my own image into these. Always at the back of my mind as I created the images was the thought that this work ephemeral though it might be could very well survive my own demise. I wanted above all to create something that gave hope with beauty.

The audio track was made using a recording made outside our house and using a drone synthesizer I made myself.

Fossil image in the last sequence with the kind permission of James Woollen.

All other images made by me and of myself

7 minutes 18 seconds

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Photographs edited in Photoshop

Video created in Cyberlink Power Director 14 Ultra

Audio created using Ray Wilson’s ‘Weird sound generator’ synthesizer circuit, which I constructed myself

Audio edited using Audacity

About me

Fifty years of photography and tired of the single image led me to making digital art montages. This in turn led to finding the CSS code to make cross fading before and after images. From there another step to using video creation software to put together many images cross fading into each other. Finally to making the sound tracks myself on drone synthesizers either homemade or using the free program “The Swarm” from reFuse software.

Making these videos is the most rewarding thing I have ever done, it brings together the two sides of my life on one side artistic interpretation and on the other the technical knowhow, I am also my own model and therefore always available. This gives me total control of the processes from inception to presentation.