Documenting the noise of crows in urban Edinburgh Following from the previous mock-up triptych depicting simply the word ‘CAW’ on three different coloured backgrounds, I decided to use…

Constant Sounds in Urban Edinburgh Lawrence Shove: ‘Carrion Crow (Corvus corone) (W1CDR0001425 BD18)’, The British Library Board, audio recording, (1961), Wikimedia Commons Continuing from the repeated image of…

Friday evening on Portobello Beach, Edinburgh Following from the previous digital collage created in response to the sounds of South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, I decided to create a…

Creating a visual ‘map’ of urban Edinburgh Tuesday morning’s synchronised walk led me along South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. When documenting the short walk, the aim was to take…

Making and Breaking a Narrative (continued) Following from the previous post, which shows my 9-part collage of magpies in a scene based on the English countryside, I decided…

Making and Breaking a Narrative continued: Following the previous collage, I wanted to create a further piece using similar techniques but with 7 Magpies present. The original collage…

Making and Breaking a Narrative continued: Following my initial composition of a single Magpie, I created a background/scene for him to sit in: Each element of the collage…

Making and Breaking a Narrative continued: Considering the folk-lore of Magpies, I thought about the folk-art I have seen. The artist Mark Hearld came to mind, whose collages…

One for Sorrow, Two for Joy. Three for a Girl, Four for a Boy. Five for Silver, Six for Gold. Seven for a Secret, Never to be told….

Working with the ‘Found Object’ continued: Following from the previous week, this week I experimented with photographing this idea of ‘Half Empty / Half Full’ Using the same…