Friday, 30 October 2009

Walking on water...

every wave is a path


Looking at this photo (taken at the other end of this week), it seems a peaceful pathway, sea tracks that could be part of a labyrinth. Inspired to go to the beach again, so took a trip in between raindrops - great grey humpback waves crashing in towards me - what a difference! Too dark to take good photos by the time I got there - scratched a labyrinth in the sand, simplest possible, like the one from Garvald (below), and then had to lean into the wind to walk it. Paused and soaked in the salt spray in the centre, and then just made it out before the sea reclaimed it.


Very wet and windy today - everything's howling and rushing - rain scoots down the street, pushed along by an impatient wind, rippling in curtains like the northern lights - but an October storm instead. Thinking of the folks gone to Lismore to build a labyrinth - hoping their crossing is less eventful than crossing the street here, that the seas and the weather remain calm for the work they are about to do.

Inspired by Gail's wonderful colour work to play around with some of the photos I took - only the simplest of tools, but this was a simple colour inversion - the sea around the labyrinth - as well as trackways, this makes me think of contemporary art styles, but also bird tracks I've seen in the snow around the labyrinth - the many different forms of labyrinth, and the many creatures that use it.

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