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Initial Sound Sketches
The first Soundmarks exhibition/installation took place last week, alongside the launch of the sound trail and book. We’ll write some reflections on all of that soon (thankyou to everyone who took part!) Today I’ve been archiving all my project materials (all 30GB of sound and images… my laptop cooling fan breathes a sigh of relief)…
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Layering time: experiments with medium format photography
Rose: An ordinary blue tarpaulin billows cloud like, anchored by stones. Strewn through and across it, an eruption of hawthorn flowers. It is a scene of early summer; delicately layered into abstraction. This is one of Rob’s double exposure medium format photographs. He took the first ones on a visit out to site, calmly aiming…
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GoPro Glitches
In the first of a series of ‘object writing’ blogs, Rob and Rose reflect on a series of glitchy images produced by the on-site GoPro camera. Rob: Rose set up a Go Pro camera on the same spot each day during the 5-week archaeological dig at Aldborough in May. The camera took a picture once…
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Beginnings
Our collaboration began last month, as Rose, along with her colleagues and volunteers at the Aldborough Roman Town Project undertook a 5-week long archeological excavation. This was my first time observing and participating in an archeological dig. I spent most of my time pottering about the trench edge watching people work, observing the patient, skilled…
