Blue Topography

    Sounds in a Cave/ and Marsden Foam Party.    I cause a dear friend great anxiety by heading off to Marsden beach in a force 5 gale.    The whole beach was a drift with Foam. ( spume) The sea was crashing hard onto the shore, the wind was high . and to add to the drama the Marsden Grotto had provided a set of lights to create a stage for me. Suite case unpacked and head phones on I had in my head  a method I wanted to try. In retrospect I think wasn't the right approach. To create a straight set of loops 4 long loops that build directly on each other. I wanted to hear the space in the mic. The Wind the waves, but it turns out the SM58 with a tiny wind sock is pretty excellent and blocking noise. I also in the drama of the weather the cold and the waves I didn't pay proper attention to my gain.. Have some supreme distortion.. Which in the making I loved, but not to be imposed on someone else's sound system I think. I think i was attracted by

Some for the Sounds. I have been missing making the sounds and the print making by necessity is busy.  It has lost a little of the silence  I love the domestic everyday nature it has taken on. and there is still quiet and stillness for me as I make the print. but a kind anxiety is there that happens when solitary becomes a group thing. I wanted the printing to feel simple and every day, even though it seems extreme, I don't think it is or should be seen as that. It should be simple and ok and fine to lie still and naked in beautiful places. Or horrible ones I suppose.  I think when I look back on it , I think about the air, the air on skin and the chemical on skin. Salt/UV/Ferric smells .  The sounds have  return a little on the solitary process even the dog has to stay away. Well mostly. Returning to old haunts, finding new ones. Exploring the possibilities with the kit I use, how it records in weather , how it responds to the spaces I am in. What will I do if I fall down