observation point...

I've finally been able to get enough good photographs of the new book to be able to put it out there! I'm not sure it's for everyone but I'll let my notes on how it came together do the talking...

It's funny how things come together. This book came together as if from nowhere but is also something I've had at the back of my mind for some time. I love to collect old photographs. I pick them up from wherever I am in the world. Most recently I discovered that I had amassed a collection of just vast, empty landscapes. Often sun bleached, scratched, torn, dirty or so minimal there was barely anything to make out that the image became abstracted I was drawn to their feeling of loneliness. To the feeling of the photographer being the only person left in the world and this is what the could see and felt inspired to capture on film, in the moment. simplicity. proximity.

Around the same time as I had been searching through these photographs, selecting which ones were my favorites and wondering about presenting them in a book like format I had been looking closely at enlarged images of a piece of dust. Looking at it in different ways, screwing it up, flattening it out, trying to get right in there with the fibers. I made a few, simple almost abstract drawings from the enlargements. And then it struck me how close in feeling these drawings were to the landscapes. simplicity. proximity again. nearness in space, time, relationship. vastness of the world. all comes down to dust.

observation point...a book of found vintage photographs and drawings of dust...

a small book about space and time

16 black and white or sepia reproductions of vintage photographs

6 drawings of dust

signed edition of 25

beautiful digital printing on heavyweight acid free paper

hand bound with translucent cover

5.8 x 8.3" approximately

visit the Restless Things shop to purchase

That's it. It's such a simple thing but I hope someone out there enjoys it. I have the snuffles at the moment so it's lots of hot tea and random embroidery for me today...stay warm!

shop update!

Recent drawings now available!

New prints!

Not much else to report here apart from I am behind with everything including announcing shop updates!! New prints and many recent drawings are now available over in the Restless Things shop...don't forget christmas is coming!

sneak...

I have been busy today trying to finish up the new book I mentioned a few posts ago. Sadly, the sun has buried itself beneath masses of clouds and does not look like he's coming out to play today and I just can't get enough good pics - bah! Here's a little sneaky peak for the time being...

sketch 5th november: it all comes down to this...

pencil and gouache on book page

our lives are buried in snow...

I didn't think I'd have enough time since getting back from my hols to

listen to a great deal of music. But I was wrong. Here's my top tunes

from the past couple of weeks with tracks from le loup, the aliens,

el perro del mar, rain machine, balmorhea, magnolia electric co.,

callers, the balky mule, anna ternheim, alela diane, and

molina and johnson...there's always time for music, right?

I forget where I came across the work of Hannah Kasper but it's really special.

I'm pottering around today trying to tie up lots of loose ends as I have a busy (not in a good way) week next week. Fingers crossed, there will be some new prints in the shop on Sunday plus some of the 'my secret self' sketches I was working on before I went away. I was hoping for there to be more of a series of those but I just can't seem to pick up where I left off...

I'm also working on a new book which I'm hoping to debut next sunday. I'm really enjoying playing with the whole book format at the moment as it's something I've been wanting to dive into for a while but the way into it has been eluding me...

I'll leave you with some great tunes on Daytrotter for your weekend...

Magnolia Electric co.

Wye Oak

Happy halloween!

ed and jean

Ed and Jean, where are you now?

Thing of beauty or a thing of 'eewww' - I'm sure people will be divided on the matter. But I, of course, am completely in love with this little bundle of golden hair. I love how it's two separate shades of gold but over the years in the envelope they've felted together...

I bought it at a flea market whilst away in New York and whilst holding it in my hand as I browsed through the other fine junk I was thinking - how do you put a price on an old lump of hair? Would it be $2 or $20 - hmmmm...

Me: how much for this?

Vendor: (looking horrified) just give me how much you think it's worth...

Me: how about $2? (cunning, no?)

Vendor: weeeelll, I was thinking more like $5...

Me: ooh, I'd have to think about it (I am a cheapskate)

Vendor: ok! ok! call it $3!

Never has there been so much haggling over a lump of old hair!!?

Now, what will I do with it?

sketch 28th october: dust study...

pencil on book page