Field Trip

These are snapshots from the PDF contact sheet of our field trip to Stanmer Park early in the term (PDFs cannot be uploaded to Blogger). I was attempting to display the ways in which light changes the environment. I began taking photos before the sun had fully risen; the light was dull. Then, as the sun rose, it shone through leaves, making them glow; it was reflected by the shimmering water in the pond full of litter, making it somehow beautiful; it lit up the landscape in unusual and enchanting ways. Perhaps the mystical auora it created helped to inspire my mythical project. The light made small, dark hollows in a hedgerow look like a fairy den by lighting the leaves around the opening: light changes perspective. This was something that I could utilise in my project. I found this during the Devil's Dyke shoot - the landscape was a dull purple until the sun rose and filled it with golden light.

This again relates back to Ways of Seeing, by John Berger. "The more imaginative the work, the more profoundly it allows us to share the artist's experience of the visible." My aim for the project was to inspire people to look at the world differently, to see more of the mystical qualities of the world rather than plough through the streets with headphones on, missing these experiences. Whatever people believe about myths and folktales, they teach us important lessons and the element of mystery is important in life. People can be naive enough to believe that we know all there is to know about the world, that there is no such thing as mystery, but that will never be true and things should stay that way.