So far, the culmination of the residency as moved away from the painting to see the constructions develop and it has been interesting. I do need to keep the paintings in mind, but this site will most likely continue to see the constructions move forward. I have got to the point where I have begun to use the landscape, but not in reality, but from the mind. The image below is where I'm at, seeing the place and my work come together, the whole thing being a small piece of artwork in itself. 

Moving forward from here now, I can only see this model of work continuing, exploring various constructions in a setting, almost like working with large scale sculpture, but at the same time not.  

Thinking more about the constructions and scale, how and where they may exist. Not having the opportunity, at least at the present, to build in an actual environment, I have been giving thought to some more ideas of the miniature and the appearance of the small looming large. I suppose it goes back again to the idea always in my mind of fitting the cathedral, with all its meaning and affect, into the small space, thus increasing the power in the work. Bottling things up, pent up energy. Of course, it is also about existing within and experiencing my world. I have continued on occasion to have the thoughts of objects creating a presence in a place. 

So, having taking the important time I need to just sit and think, to feel things, wait for something to be felt within me, I saw an open landscape in my thoughts and I wanted to put something in it. Keeping to the idea of the small, I made that place by using modelling and household materials. It was a piece of open countryside sitting on my desk and I gave it life with my mind.  

It sat on my desk, becoming more of a place as time went on. I added the depth, for a sense of reality. 

It waits there now for whatever construction will come to mind, which is the point I am at now. I am certain the interior of the house will still play a part, but it will be an uncertain thing to know how it will respond to the earth site. 

I hope the introduction of a definite place will still bring the feeling and experience of time, stillness, ambiguity. I am certain too, that as I sit and look and be in that piece of country, especially with the construction in place, I will remain in the state of doubt and moving ambiguously through longing and melancholy. 

Since my last post here at Reside, the issue of scale as continued to play on my mind. Mostly I have been considering odd viewpoints around the house, looking up being the dominant angle. I understood at some point during this process that I like the idea of being small in scale to the surroundings, its what makes me feel I am enveloped within an environment, what makes me have to work hard in my mind to try to exercise the control over the time in that environment and yet have also to acknowledge that it will be difficult to do this, or ultimately that the control will be temporary. I have begun to visualise again the outside and how different it is, or if it is only the same as the inside of the house because I am the one who is there. The outside still requires vastness, the large scale of things. 

I have been giving some thought about if it would ever be possible that I could interact directly with the outside. But still, at the moment, the house is still a land in which to explore and it as begun  to be introduced to elements of distance. For the first time, I introduced the figure, simple, but enough to allow the construction to be given scale.      

The image dissolves some of the ambiguity of the space, but that is not the idea, I want to observe how a larger environment would be. Maybe I am thinking back to my paintings, how scale impacts on them, or how it effects the looking. I suppose it is more of this question of how do I feel faced with a place and how it is to move about within it.