Winter flowers, Botanics, Edinburgh, female portraits, admirer of Walter Scott, Portobello, Christine Borland, I say nothing, stolen artifacts, butterflies, paper weights, glass, marble jewelry, snail shells, sparklers, papiergewichten, glas, marmeren juwelen, slakenschelpen, vlinders, winterbloemen

Camera test, (The Sea, At Land, Beaulieu camera test), NMS 5 October 2018. A (Carol Bove) Display    

The final No.35 project, with artist Jane Topping, publication and exhibition 8 December 2018.                     &nbsp {…}

From a performative screening and reading event Market Gallery, Glasgow 21 July 2018, with thanks to Catalina Barroso-Luque, Jennifer Clews, Rowan Markson, Alex Millar and Tako {…}

16mm colour film stills, 2018  

Museumsinsel, title from Beatrice Gibson’s I Hope I’m Loud When I’m Dead, found glass, crystals, Nefertiti, faces, dear ghost, dear ghost, ‘Pensées’, Blaise Pascal, void, shape of manoeuvre, doubt, doubt, doubt, CA Conrad

16mm colour film, August 2018, Narda Azaria Dalgleish, Hawick. With thanks to Robert McDougall.  

16mm film, six minutes, colour, silent, 2018, flowers in classification of white and colour, cuts (Rose Lowder), tape, gold leaf, gold letters, Kraftwerk, cardboard, glitter, ties, mirrors, prints, California midnight roses, black fabric, plastic bags with butterfly print.

….to Quieten our Unshieldedness, (wherever it has been abandoned by clarity), and “what use to a being who lives under the sun are jewels of {…}

White flowers against shadow, to test the highs and lows, and film at the Museum of Scotland with a view to filming delicate things in very low light, and a few things, like marble white busts, sewing on cotton and chandelier parts, in very bright light.

I am screening a film experiment made after Rose Lowder’s masterclass and reading Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet after seeing some films by João Maria Gusmão {…}

Flowers (multiple), pewter hands, Helen Duncan, witchcraft trial, fake medium, cheesecloth ectoplasm, Chinese wallpaper, flowers on display, Graham Mack and Catherine Whippey, white marble busts, Margaret (martyr), chandeliers, conservation room, puppets, lamps, wasps, Elisabeth and Mary, individual frames, roses, sunflowers, gestures, addicts, Yvonnes, university art collection, ignored public art sculptures, Bouvard et Pécuchet, verre églomisé…

The museum is the object with no movement. Jewelry, optical illusions, figurines, glass, chandeliers, skulls, reflections, out of focus, severed focus, sculptures, Jesus, silhouettes, cameos, escalators, dishes, silver, figurines, embroidery, Madame Victoire by Louis-Claude Vasse. (Non-reflex Bc)

Silent, experimental 16mm film, photographed June 2018

…. fall from the simple edge.

Filmed on location, Market Gallery, Glasgow, 9 October 2018 Camera assistant, Alex Withey  

Please stand by. Camera assistant and stills photographer, Ben Soedira. Photo: Ben Soedira, 2018

Père Lachaise, Keith Korbel, La Tour Eiffel, Musee d’Orsay, Sarah Bernhardt, Art Nouveau, art thieves, chandeliers, horses, drying clothes, fountains, street names, Maya Surduts, window garden, antique glass, two men laughing, Robert Ashley fountain

Dedicated to John Calcutt. 

  16mm film; 35mm stills.