After almost fifty years of visiting family and taking pictures in Aberystwyth, Wales, I became aware of the bi-daily starling murmurations at the local pier. How the existence of this phenomenon was not passed-on from my father—himself an avid photographer—I will never know. During seven viewings over five days, I witnessed first-hand this \"time setting\" mesmerizing event. I've read that flocks number hundreds of thousands, and naturally I have no clue how many I was watching. After two hours of taking more than 1,000 pictures, this gallery represents a 62 second vignette.
2019 (processed 2024)
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The i Within
The mere utterance of the name \"Istanbul\" conjures up visions of mystery and intrigue. Capitalizing on a combination of good fortune and connections, my return after a nineteen-year absence revealed a city on the edge, not only geographically but also economically and politically, laden with cultural contradictions. Akin to most sprawling metropolises, one’s first interactions are invariably overwhelming. Yet slowly, it reveals its hüzün, a melancholic underbelly so eloquently described by Turkish Nobel Prize winning author Orhan Pamuk in his memoir, Istanbul: Memories and the City.
Southern India is a magical place. There is a daily bustle of people, sacred cows, stray dogs and more dogs, alive on almost every street corner day and night, plying their trade open to view and freely shared. Highways vibrate with bicycles, auto rickshaws and buses transporting goods and chattels, filling the air with a cacophony of sound and choking fumes. But on return to my more familiar Western world, what changes?
This collection of diptychs presents alternate vignettes observed in the East and West, seemingly disparate culturally and geographically, but maybe more related than at first appeared.
2005~2011
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Letter from a Friend
The final missive from a fellow voyager who lost his way.
When our sense of purpose is missing, and relationships and connections with others start to feel removed and remote, loneliness and isolation usually manifest. Dealing with the impermanence of all things, as we traverse life's many avenues, dark days can feel too heavy and burdensome, lacking the inner shining light we so long for. Suffering can start to appear optional: turbulent inner emotions distorting our sense of perspective, with the pain of disconnect from life forming like a cancerous growth, slowly nibbling at the core. On this journey it may feel like we have a choice at every crossroads, to follow this path or that: ultimately they all lead to the same place, a place we call home.
2010 (pictures 2007~2010)
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Eyes on You\n
Witnessed—by the silent witness, the wanderer, the flâneur. Intertwined with metaphors and graphic characterization, less about spectacle and more about presence—about what is revealed in brief, unscripted encounters. The small unguarded moments. What remains is not drama, but recognition. The brief crossing of paths. The quiet fact of being seen. The eyes seeing and the eyes being seen.\n
2001~2025
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Bloom
\nInspired by the research into Harmful Algae Blooms by former Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution scientist Suzi Clark, PhD, Bloom contains images from Acadia National Park in Maine. Acadia is a source of much of the research specimens studied by Clark.
\nHarmful Algae Blooms are individually harmless, but collectively dangerous. They can be viewed at the microscopic level—100,000 in a glass of water—or en masse from 20,000 miles above planet earth. They are unpredictable, random, complex, multifaceted and mysterious. Repetitive yet diverse, beautiful but with the potential for devastation, producing toxins that poison seals, otters, dolphins, whales, and even people.
\nThe individual squares are extracts from eight images taken at Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park, together with eight false color variations. These were arranged in a checkerboard of 16 squares, with this panel replicated 24 times. The resulting 25 panels were compiled by chance, reflective of the geometric style of Ellsworth Kelly, into a grid of 400 squares total.
\nThe original piece has an orange epicenter. The green variation of the original Bloom has its 25 panels of 16 squares rotated 180 degrees. It has a green epicenter.
\nOriginally conceived with reference to Chuck Close's mosaic imagery, close-up the artwork shows individual water droplets, but from afar appears to possess swirling patterns throughout, with lines apparently not straight due to a phenomenon known as café wall illusion.
\n\nInspired by Katie Squires' research on hydrothermal vent fluids and their impact on ocean chemistry, this artwork comprises a composite of almost 600 images captured in the local environment.\n
\nDiscovered in 1977, hydrothermal vents are essentially underwater hot springs that form at tectonic boundaries over 8,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. When vent fluids emerge from the seafloor, they deliver high concentrations of metals (e.g. iron and manganese) to the deep ocean. Eventually, these metals settle from the water column and are deposited on the seafloor. Squires, a graduate student at MIT and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, uses chemical patterns recorded in marine sediments to study where and how far hydrothermally sourced metals travel across the Pacific Ocean, and how this has varied over millions of years. Understanding how hydrothermal fluxes have changed through time is important because these fluids are a source of metals that marine organisms need to survive. Furthermore, many of these metals are used in renewable energy sources (e.g. electric vehicle batteries), and there is international interest in mining seafloor sediments to collect these metals for such purposes. It is important that we understand when, where, how, and at what rates these metals are deposited on the seafloor before undertaking actions that may impact hydrothermal vents, their deposits, and the organisms that depend on them. \n
\nHydrothermal vents are complex geologic features and need specialist equipment to explore. Like all things oceanic, where it can take 10,000 years for the ocean floor to grow 1mm, they play a critical if not fully understood role in the ocean's ecosystem, with small changes leading to big and potentially irreversible consequences.\n
The interplay between our constructions and nature. The shared space. The interaction. The coexistence. Sometimes by invitation, other times by intrusion, maybe by intent, maybe not. It’s not always clear which is which. \n
2004~2025
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Made in the UK\n
My country of birth has become a distant land. Visited primarily on family occasions, I temporarily exchange the red, white and blue colors of the Star and Stripes, for the similarly coloured Union Jack.
\nAs famously observed, the British and Americans are two peoples separated by a common language.\n\n
2007~2023
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3 x 1 by 3 equals a square\n
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2016~2020
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Can't See ... The Wood for The Trees\n
Missing the big picture - the wood, by focusing on the details - the trees.\n