In--Residence

Briefield, in-situ

During my first stay at Briefield in April, I cycled round the areas. Found near by town Nelson's library for local & cotton mill history in the area. Had the delux tour of Briefield mill, saw the spooky basement, the heights of the clock tower, canals and water, water everywhere. I was searching for dark chambers and dark spaces that would let me experiment with the various lenses I had accumulated and investigating light sources I had found within the Mill spaces.

in-situ
http://in-situ.org.uk

Investigated possible means of constructing a mobile camera obscura tent that may easily transported and set up in Mill and in local Briefeild area.

Dark spaces in lifts, cupboards, storage rooms, under stairs.

Using the camera obscura is a way of revealing a moving image outside in the world, while inside the camera. The animated images projected onto the interior surface are images that are both upside down and back-to-front. This is in fact just the way our eyes record what we see in the world, of reflected light on our retina, up side down and back-to-front.
Our extraordinary brains can account for this and makes sense of this; rights this ‘back-to-front & upside-down- ness’ so we see the world the way we experience it.
In a way the camera obscura reveals the working of our brain.