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| PROOF PRINT NEW WORK - © Pauline Woolley 2016 |
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| CHASING SUNS 52 degrees # 6 - © Pauline Woolley 2014 |
Six pieces of the new work I will be showing at Lady Bay Arts Festival this year have been made in my garden. Cameras (one made from adapting a dark room enlarger head) track the sun from East to West. With a joyful coincidence, the cameras face the direction of Lady Bay.
I find it challenging making work in one place. Not only am I forever battling with the weather (and that has been a real problem for this work) the Sun's left to right movement never changes so the view point often remains the same.
One particular tree has featured quite often in the work. If not dominate in the images, it sits on the fringes making it's presence known.
It's shape and position act as calendar. By mid morning in the winter the sun becomes visible well away from the tree. And now, in early April, it touches the higher right hand edges of the tree by 8am.
Winter and early spring are the best time for me to make the work in this one place. I can get good foreground in as the sun arcs across the other trees beyond the back fence.
I always have to remind myself that of course it is not the Sun that is moving. It's us at approx 1000 mph. A scientist and some complicated maths will tell you it's less for us here at our 52° latitude.
As I a type that photo bombing tree is undergoing a much needed lopping by a local tree specialist and I realise that it's previous tall untidy self will forever be preserved in my work.
The calendar has now been reset. It's now time for a new location.
