feetAbout

I spent 2002 picking fruit in Australia. Every now and then an Aboriginal guy picked with us. You talk a lot in the fields to pass the day and one time Eddie finished a discussion with the lines, 'when you are asleep you are awake, and when you are awake you are asleep. That's the Dreamtime' Upon returning to the UK I watched a documentary on aboriginal art and realised if you stood say 3000 m above the ground and set a camera to take time lapse pictures and then layered them ontop of each other, I understood the form of the paintings better. Feetabout was me playing with this idea. Instead of taking out a single image, as we do in western art, I used parts of many or fragments of time and layered them into a composition.

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You will see the same person appear in different parts of the composition. buildings abstracted into a form.  Eddie told us meant you can hold two equal and parallel places of consciousness, in playing with the idea of space and time and mixing it into form is the idea behind feetabout.

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In 2015 I printed out some of the images and took them to Spain.  I blue tak'd them to walls and gave people magnifying glasses to view the image. Since it is a form of street photography I thought it best to show them on the street.