Footpath

“Footpath” is an ever-moving visual montage. Sound & Vision, without words, it's a journey not a story. Somewhere between video art and a chill out experience. It started life as 400+ phone photos I snapped of what caught my eye beneath my feet while walking my neighbourhood over a period of nine months - shadow play, autumn leaves, spring petals, detritus, carrion, dropped toys, plastic litter…. selected found objects. I was inspired to edit the photographs into a basic slow moving sequence, something like dad's old slide show. Like a holiday slide show the photos are presented in the order they were shot, but once I started editing “Footpath” took on a life of its own. Far from the slow moving spacious work I had envisaged elements of individual photos were cut out, swirled around, and drifted through adjacent shots. A miniature woven arabesque carpet that was lying on my desk provided the inspiration that brought it all together. All the elements I’d cut out and circulated coalesced into a patterned form, a digital kaleidoscope perhaps.