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By 2003, I was deeply involved with ASAT (the Association of Suffolk Art Teachers), and exhibiting regularly in the Forefront Gallery at Suffolk College.Neil Hanger, the chairman, managed to fix us a show at the internationally renowned Aldeburgh Poetry Festival. The chosen poet was Gerard Manley Hopkins, and so "Responding to Hopkins" was born.
At the time I was still playing with the refraction of light- creating digital prints on my computer and taking reams of photos using my SLR. One manic afternoon, I created a still life involving a number of reflective objects and took close-ups using fast flim speeds until my eyes were skew-whiffy.The nine in the exhibition were the ones I felt addressed how I responded to his poetry most successfully. The images have reminiscences of the English landscape and gardens.
Responding to Hopkins
“Man is a thing of nought: his time passeth away like a shadow.” Purcell, Blessed be the Lord My Strength.
The contrasts of Hopkins’ life, his passions and his poems have rekindled in me the belief that everything has a presence beyond form: something that evokes the spiritual. It is in these photographs that I have tried to express my feelings about inscape.
My photography sessions start off with a new idea- often a new surface that will allow me to manipulate light- and then I work fanatically, taking reel after reel, until I am mentally exhausted and then I just have to wait anxiously for the results.
The sorting process is just as important as the photography and happens slowly and intuitively. It is then that I am ready to let the images be seen.
