Charleston

A visit to the country quarters of some of the Bloomsbury set turned out to be more of an opportunity to make work, although they had an interesting attitude to valuable paintings, selling work by Picasso to raise funds and putting copies they had made themselves on the walls. Relevant to my look at 3D modelling, simulacra and the Elgin Marble issue at the British Museum…

https://www.charleston.org.uk/object/pots-et-citron-copy-of-pablo-picasso/

The garden offered some surreal opportunities – a further layer is added to the first image by taking a screen shot of the iphone as it tries to identify the faces on the bodyless statues. The second is somewhat reminiscent of an image by Bill Brandt.

However the best thing about the visit was the land art installation by Nathan Coley. Recording it on the iphone picked up a flicker in the light display that was not visible to the naked eye. While modern cameras usually cut this sort of phase issue out, it worked in my favour making the message, spelt out here in black and white, all the more urgent: