My first derive of the streets of Cambridge has been completed and some interesting words and associations have already been emerging for my A:L:L project titled 'Lost, found [lost...]'
See the link on the right of this page to keep up with the event taking place all round Cambridge in October.

Revisiting my notes from the On Walking conference; here are some of my quote highlights:

'Loitering with intent' Morag Rose.

'Walking the river bank - against the flow...'Diane Smith.

'Walking in a group silently gives an amplification to the environment' Marie-Ann Lerjen.

'Making and breaking your own connections is liberating' 
Anne Matthews.

'The Precipice' video installation N.Gear 2013

'The Precipice' video installation currently showing at the Djanogly Gallery Nottingham until Tues 25th June.
A work considering moments of the forward journey and the same points of the return journey [running together], of being 'on the edge' and our relationship with the urban and rural landscape.

Great news I found out this week that I've been chosen to along with a number of other artists to take part in the Art:Language:Location exhibition in Cambridge during Oct 2013. Go have a look at the following link.
http://artlanguagelocation.wordpress.com/

The image shows some of the work I've been developing as part of my 'indexical traces' which hopefully will feature in my degree show coming up from the 19th June to the 25th June at the Djanogly Gallery Nottingham.
I'm also doing an artists talk at the University of Nottingham on May the 14th as per this link: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cas/aboutus/events/cedric-ford-art-exhibition.aspx
Come along and here what I've been up to...

The Precipice (A still from my latest video work)

In my latest work I've been using a walk I used to do as a child in Wales called the Precipice walk.

Taking the notion of 'precipice' I've then over-layed this to explore my local woodland walk, how the traces people have left show their lives to physically & spiritually be on 'the edge' and how ecologically we live on the precipice.

The still above shows how two projections will overlap and juxtapose on two screens.

Following my Interlaced walk (on the 17th of February) I have created this Gif called 'Echo - Falls - White - Storm' which considers and plays with the text found in the urban landscape. The speed of the animation lasting less than 15 seconds echoes the rapid pace of our digital lifestyles and is juxtaposed against the 2.25 hours taken to do the walk and collected the text based images...