Shetland Yarn Machine

Hi - it's been a while. These pictures are from Shetland, Scotland. They are just off my PC without thought for order or quality - I just want to deposit them somehow. I love the blue and the industry and the shapes formed from the utility of the machine. 

Some little part of my brain is revived from thinking about angles and industry. Nice to feel it back.

Framed

First you take a photograph because the image inspires you - you see something in that particular view that suits being photographed.
Then time passes and when you return to the image it seems uninteresting. Disappointingly, you cannot remember why it seemed a good idea to take this photograph.
Then, you find the image when you go through your photographs from the past and it interests you again - look! A photograph framing an object framed, by an accident of how these objects occurred in the world. Beautiful fruits framed by a grey box, as I saw them in that moment.

home space

There's been a process unfolding within and around me, as I adjust to having a new home, and fill it physically and psychically.
Encouraged by a lovely compliment from Rita Evans - I begin to let more of the fruits of this process appear on here.
I have felt as if my home space has become the outer limits of my psyche, and within these walls all is creativity and play. To take it beyond these walls is to make it something else, but that's ok, I have encouragement.

(below) Shapes intersecting, things intersecting as they are in this particular moment.

Chillies and umbrella 

and bananas and daffodils

colour connections

and sunshine

Bornholm

I just went on a short trip to Bornholm, Denmark.
It was the first time I've had in a long while to reconnect with photography and nature.
I came away wondering what a critical photography practice of mine would look like...

Critical - i.e. that problematises, that raises questions, that delimits (as I understand it).

And, after reading Spheres of Action: Art and Politics (ed. Alliez and Osborne), I am re-reminded of the importance of history and materialism, and am wondering how it would be possible to reconcile image making (photography) with this aim.

Here's an assortment of images that are doing different things, but I wouldn't say they were critical. That's the problem, and I suspect the only way such a thing might be possible would be through some heterogeneous element(s).

Tree Nipples