Took a trip to Bexhill but 'forgot' the tripod

After some evening atmospherics, a shot of the light vessel and some good ole genius loci but too lazy, truth be told, to dig out the tripod. The iron railings stabilised the camera a bit and if you squint your eyes you can almost see Eastbourne....

Creative river

Went back to Year 1 work with David Smith to generate some ideas for a final image on my Wood Wharf sheet. It was good to re-visit. Planning to go to Grant's photoshop class and hope to return persuaded that it is possible to get excited about creating via the intermediary of a keyboard.

I read this about creativity being like a river. 'Be wild, that is how to clear the river. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life.'(Clarissa Pinkola Estes 'Women Who Run with the Wolves').

Wood Wharf at night

Easy to set this up but portraying light realistically requires more experimentation than I have time for just now. On screen the night-time doesn't seem too dark but it prints out a shade or two darker.

Wondering whether I could have focused more on the ground plane at Wood Wharf. Burle Marx's designs were meant to be able to be viewed by people in tower blocks and passing traffic which would apply here, albeit water traffic.

                                            Lago di Carioca 1985

Bucket-filling bubbles

It's playtime. I could have spent a lot more time exploring the possibilities for my bubbles.

I created these bubbles in an idea for Wood Wharf but I'm having to step backwards a bit and consciously go through the design process. I think the research on temporary solutions distracted me and the site was ending up with a lot of 'features' that don't really hang together.
Went back to '101 Things I Learned in Architecture School'. Today's lesson is: 'Being process-oriented, not-product-driven , is the most important and difficult skill for a designer to develop.' Oh boy ...