Monday 30 September 2013

Highlights from a month on location

A month into production of the Trig point series, one panel in hand. Here's a selection of observations encountered on site or en route, which it would be difficult to deduce from the panel itself.

-The satisfaction of pulling blackthorn hedge trimmings from kevlar reinforced tyres.

-The pleasure of greeting a summit breeze after an undulating ascent through a windless valley, pierced only by the morning sun.

-The poignancy of evening birdsong after a long day of wind and rain.

-To learn from the trees, the nature of the prevailing wind, and site yourself in the lee.

-Not to underestimate the value of a foreground subject, when the mist comes rolling in.

And a handful of questions, similarly situated.

-What Frequency would you find at the centre of the rainbow, were it not occluded by the shadow of your head?

-Do cows look at the sky? 

-How would a treasure hunter, habituated to the optimistic beep of a metal detector, regard lost edges in a picture?

-Is humour an intrinsic property?

-What is the shape of the surface generated by the perpendicular viewing of a gnomic projection at sight size?

We'll See.