This drawing installation records a series of observations made over the course of a day. Bird flight paths were traced from and on 13 different windows for 10 minutes an hour 08.00 to 20.10 on 18 May 2006.";
copytexts[2]="I draw them. They draw me.
The meeting point of inside and outside, observer and observed - the birds and I draw simultaneously on the window.";
copytexts[3]="3 February 2006
10 minutes of observed bird flight, traced directly onto the window.";
copytexts[4]="The spaces where things have been
A series of monotypes taken from drawings of bird flight made directly on the window's surface.";
copytexts[5]="Flights Interrupted
Based on an observation of bird flight paths made in March 2006 at a window overlooking the River Exe in Exeter, the painting was completed early in 2008 at a studio in Red Lion Lane, Exeter.";
copytexts[6]="Space as defined by two separate systems
A long-exposure photograph at dusk was followed by an equivalent amount of time spent drawing bird flights in daylight from the same window, emphasising the particular qualities of photography versus sight and memory.";
copytexts[7]="Bound (Gravity Drawing)
A series of futile attempts to become airborne.
(sample video)";
copytexts[8]="Spilt upon the ground
Cropping, inverting, distorting - puddles show the world representing itself.";
copytexts[9]="The distance travelled by foot, travelled by hand
A riverside walk was measured by pedometer and the same distance (6.643km) is now being recreated by drawing a continuous line between two markers 50cm apart. Small wobbles of my hand disturb the precise measure and begin to form ripples that recall the flow of water and the strata of rocks.";
copytexts[10]="Divide. Divide. Divided.
Captured with a low-tech camera during a walk around Exeter Quay and Marsh Barton trading estate, this film reveals the discontinuity of experience within an apparently coherent event.
(sample video)";
copytexts[11]="Observatory
Encountering this group of small mirrors on legs, observers are encouraged to turn their backs on the landscape and see it in a more contained and domesticated format, much as 18th century seekers of the picturesque looked into their Claude glasses.";
copytexts[12]="Is and Was
By bringing together a three-dimensional object with a two-dimensional image of itself, Is and Was examines the nature of photography and its relationship to memory.";
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