Marsden Bay 54 degrees 58 mins. N. 1 degree 22mins W.

Marsden Bay 54 degrees 58 mins. N. 1 degree 22mins W., originally uploaded by taffsdad.

Because the Journey is experienced only as a series of memories this image illustrates the fact perfectly. The spiral stone sculpture which is inset was created at Marsden Bay about 5 Year ago. I created this image on the 20th of February 2007 and uploaded it to the Blog on the 22nd of March. Three experiences of the same event seperated by 5 years and now experiened together but in the past. All experience exists in the past.

A Sign....................

A Sign...................., originally uploaded by taffsdad.

Metamorphosis

 

Taken 1 min. before my birthday on 12-10-06 the image is of me sitting in front of a screen with a video of my Journey playing behind me, elements were added later to complete the image i wanted to portray.

random screen grab from video

random screen grab from video, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

Still image grabbed at random from the VIDEO "The Loop" The video is something I have put together as a sort of Birthday gift to me....a this is my life, or a this is my life as presented by me. There is a link to see an short version of the video in the comment below.

View over The Landscape

bw-landscape, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

The image is of a Landmark that i see whilst out walking....the Jouerney defined by the places we stop and the things that catch our attention

once you leave there aint no going back

once you leave there aint no going back, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

Video Still and link to actual video footage

Video Still., originally uploaded by taffsdad.

One of the first experiments using video to record the journey , an attempt to play with time and perception. Double clicking on the image wil take you to my flickr page and here you will find the link to play the video

Where Does Reflection End and Reality begin ?

Video Still From Journey Series

REalised that most of the images on here are also on Flickr should use this space to give an alternative view.

linked to the past

linked to the past, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

linking the present with the very distant past

TimeREvealed

TimeREvealed, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

A WAlk to MaRSden Beach circa 2000. images layered to recreate memory

ThE tIME it Takes

ThE tIME it Takes, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

A record of part of my journey this represents the time it took to get to one place to the other. Layers upon layer of time 10 miles approx 1 hour in a single plane.

CoNNeCtion

Well connected, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

From one point connect to the World. A node in the Collective Conciousness...Symbolic of all the directions you can make from one point in time and space.

LIght TRavelled .........>>>>>>>>>>>>

Pin hole, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

Pinhole images convert the reality of what we see. Instead of the modern cameras ability to capture an image in an instant pinhole images take time to build up an image on the emulsion. In this respect it is the scene that is making the journey as well as the viewer.

Spiral

This small sculpture was done circa 2000 at Marsden Bay. After i took the photograph it got me thinking about the nature of reality. The light travelling from this sculpture does not reach the eye or the camera instantaneously. It takes time to travel. This got me thinking that if what we see is reflected light then the reality we see is always in the past. The light from our Sun takes 8 mins to reach us the light from some distant stars take billions of years so some of the stars we see in the night sky dont exist at all, having gone Super Nova or had some other cataclysmic event destroy their very existense. So in essense what im saying is that this photograph or collection of Html code if you are viewing this online is as real as the original sculpture if not more so.

Bridge

Bridge, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

A connection between points

from one point.

A tree, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

The branches of a tree represent the myriad different directions it is possible to take from a single point

Journey

journey, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

All journeys start from a single point, all these points are in the past

Video Still

video still, originally uploaded by taffsdad.

Recording the journey on Video allows me the opportunity to control time. We experience time via memory, memory is not linear therefore time is not linear. Nothing in physics states that time cannot run backwards it only states that this is highly improbable.

Signs and Symbols

Homo Ergaster one of our earliest ancestors was the first species of early Hominid to recognise an abstract mark, the tracks of animals, the ability to equate the traces with the animals that left them gave Homo Ergaster a head start in the evolutionary race and he was probably the first Hominid with the ability to appreciate abstract art. We still use signs and symbols to navigate our environments today, conciously and also via the subconciuos reading of subtle traces left by those who have gone before.