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Prism Transition

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Photography — It was a sunny, Sunday afternoon when light was streaming through my back window. There was a gentle breeze that made the leaves on the tree in the back garden move to and fro. The poetic dancing shadows on my piano added a rare atmosphere. The perfect day to photograph a prism. One has to know about optimal sun position and angle in relation to planet Earth in order to make this document. I succeeded on my second attempt which was 365 days later. This type of photography can only happen on one day of the year in that location.

Light — If I was travelling on a wavelength of white light through a prism, I would mingle with the density of the crystal resulting in offspring of different types of light spread across the electromagnetic continuum as refracted light. Light is refracted on entry and exit of the prism.

Computer — Keynote software has a transition feature called ‘colour planes’ that separates red, green and blue. This knowledge sparked the idea to make a video of a prism. A secondary idea was the knowledge of a particular piece of music.

Music — The title of the music in ‘Prism Transition’ is ‘Spiegel Im Spiegel’ by Arvo Pärt, and was re-composed from four staffs to three by myself especially for the video. Spiegel Im Spiegel translates to Mirror in the Mirror and was the reason I included it in the poem ‘High Street! — Outside In, Inside Out’. Here is that very verse:

“And even more extraordinary: a reflection reflecting itself

Now everything keeps reversing and turn-turning about

Spiegel Im Spiegel melodies go round inside my head

On and on and on it goes, outside in, inside out…”

Illusions — The psychology of visual perception, the physics of refraction. A key term when thinking about mirror images, is: enantiomorphs. An object has the coordinates: x, y, z. An object as reflected by a mirror has the coordinate: – x, y, z. Therefore, when looking through a mirror one has to double the distance from the object to the mirror in order to obtain an accurate measurement of the reflection.

Prism Transition

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Alison – Daughter of Alice

An art house photography production that could be in the style of Lewis Carroll. Amongst the different hats he wore were: Photographer and Author. The title of this video, Alison — Daughter of Alice, is my original idea, and taken from Carroll’s two books starring Alice. My thought here imagines Alice as having not a son, but a daughter — hence: Alison. And, just to put the cart before the horse, I wrote a poem about these images before making the video — the poem includes a line about the Alison / Alice relationship and adventures.

All the photographs include reflections and have been processed to high-key. The music had to be heavenly, and so I chose Karl Jenkins’ In Paradisum, making the video uniquely atmospheric. As with the Penge video I posted two weeks ago, the music here was recorded and mixed by myself. The finished footage was processed to the lowest quality at high resolution which, paradoxically, had an enhancing effect giving the video an ethereal quality.

The images in this video are from the Anerley and Penge area of South East London, England.

Click here for the Alison — Daughter of Alice video

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Penge

Penge is my home town in the suburbs of South East London, England, and comes under the London Borough of Bromley. It is where I went to Secondary School, Sea Cadets as a teenager… and fell in love — many times!

After leaving Secondary School, I moved away from the area and lived in different locations. I returned to the area in 1990 and moved into my current Penge address in 2002. It was here that I completed my three-year Photomedia BA (Hons) degree — and this was only the beginning…

Since then: explosions in my artistic output, writing and publishing two paperbacks, narrating and producing two audiobooks, creating and producing a videobook, and the beginning of music composition.

The Penge Video

This video contains photographs of Penge: landmarks, parks, flowers, abstract sequences, skies, perspective photographs, signage, street art, nighttime scenes and music.

The music is my recording of W. A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, second movement, and recorded at home. To be more precise: I recorded the piano solo on my Broadwood acoustic piano, orchestral instruments on my Yamaha electronic keyboard and edited the recordings on my computer.

click here: Penge