Gerhard Stromberg - Two Moons
27. February 2000
Driving back to Sway from Beccles I pass the estuary at Blythburgh. A low tide reveals grey mud, glittering beneath a perfectly even sky. This wide open landscape is so much part of my life. I can enter into it with my whole existence. Effortlessly pictures reveal themselves as real and as present as the landscape before me.
Although I would like to stop and resolve these pictures there is no sense of lost opportunity. Picture making is not about opportunities. Even if this particular landscape would vanish tomorrow, my photographs of it would still be made. Places, once recognised, never leave us.
28. February 2000
I have been playing with ArtSway's digital video camera to prepare for work I might want to do with 16mm film. This little camera allows such an immediate response to the world before me. The moment I decide to use it is the moment it starts working; a visual dictaphone.
Late in the afternoon I parked the van above Hinchelsea Moor and stayed there, just looking, until long after nightfall. Clouds chased across a stormy sky as complete darkness slowly enveloped me. Suddenly a thin moon appeared, dancing amidst the clouds:
New Moon
Digital Video, 28 seconds
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