A thought in progress

I find my personal work to be the most challenging, never knowing the full extent of what I need to photograph.

Recently I ventured out to the Lake District National Park, an area which I have become familiar with since moving to the near city of Carlisle. The idea was to photograph the landscape, including an A2 chalkboard which I would draw certain illustrations to symbolise what I thought about being in that space.

An example of this would be a scene of a mountain I encountered where I placed a simple illustration in the scene.

I believe this works, although I have a tendency to form attachments to images early on in a project. The background is slightly out of focus, drawing your focus to the mountain drawn on the chalkboard, which in its simplest form represents the conceptions of what a mountain should be. Trying to turn this idea into a project however is a different matter, you can have one image that works in this way however to create more is where I tend to hit the brick wall.

I guess the idea initially was to accentuate the ideals of landscape perception, the mountain illustration being a metaphor for the basic visual understanding of the word mountain. This could diversify to a simple drawing of a tree on a stump where a tree has fell, carrying this idea of illustration identification along with drawing what used to be there, which is a whole other tangent.

I will be posting the progress of this work and my thought process as my photographic journey goes ahead and how this work will end up in an exhibition space.