Pix: My Dream

best photo recently...

..and a good portrait as well - my son today, during the town fair - his first time during such an event...

First photospheres, now photosquares?

Oh well, just when I had this conversation with M. - a photographer who is my newest source of inspiration (his print is standing by my mirror, just opposite my bed, so I can meditate the beauty of the Scottish shores and sea in general!) - about photospheres (wrote about it here) I came across Brent Townshend and his brilliant photos!

He did a few of Oxford and I wonder - how long does it take to make one?!
Those pictures can make miracles, so I advise you all to check them out. He uploaded them to Google photo sharing site, Panoramio, which looks fun as it is.

With his works on it, it is even better!

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Moron exhibiting?

Moron or not I am going to exhibit my works tomorrow int he Oxford Castle's Oxford Artfair, so please join me 11AM-4PM. Here is more info...

It will be a proposal for next week's 'Sea Land' exhibition in Appleton and new project called 'Steps' (hardcore industrial material I want to exhibit in Jam Factory - if they let me exhibit there again:)).

Hope to see you all there:)

I am giving myself this weekend, and afterwards start my training, ufff....be prepared for long series of moaning:(

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Sea Land

...is the title of my part of the exhibition in Appleton.

Why? Sea Land is the state of my soul currently - also a place in England somewhere:) - where there is no border lien between the land and the water, everything is liquid, constantly changing form and distance...there is sometimes stability, but most of the time flow after a flow. So I guess it suits the project too...

So here it is. It started with...I guess the very fact I hated that place and didn't want to move there! I was trapped and very lonely there...I felt abandoned, alienated...but quickly I was asked to join the community, and met few good and very interesting people...
After I separated from my husband I stayed there to gather my thoughts.
I met Kristina, who is a good friend now.
In the meantime I was invited to take part in Oxford Artweeks together with other artists from the village - simple note in my postbox!
I met Jo.

Now I need to gather my thoughts again. What do I want to say with this one? Last one was called signs and it was opened few days after my horrible marriage ended. I know now that SIGNS meant those I have seen...of the ending, of re-birth.

Today all I can say is that I have lived my last year - yes, slowly a year! - very close to the nature. i spent every single free minute of my life in the gardens of Wantage, Oxford, London...purely meditating and searching for the old self and a new path.

What I can say is that I have found it all - my old self, new country, new life and new role. I have made peace with my past and blind choices. I have forgiven myself. I enjoy life again, fully.

So here it is -  twenty titles:
Tulips, 'spring flowers'
Ticloy, 'house of stone'
Lymm, 'noisy stream'
Doonaha, 'ford of the ford'
Ashendon, 'hill overgrown with ash-trees'
Loftus, 'house with a loft'
See Grave, 'grove'
Annagassan, 'ford of the paths'
Dornoch, 'place of the first stones'
Hoy, 'high island'
Briska, 'brittle land'
Ahakista, 'ford of the box'
Huish, 'measure of land that would support family'
Zeal, 'hall'
Doo, 'black lake'
Ahalia, 'lake of the salt water'
Kilbaha, 'church of birches'
Saval, 'barn'
Boola, 'milking place'
Hammoon, 'enclosure or land in a riverbed'

All of them found in a dictionary of English names (note: some of them are actually Irish). All of them on the map. I have found most of them already and I plan to visit them with Kristina during next 12 months. it was her idea to use this book (she is a writer and brilliant person!). It was my colleagues and their language obsessions that pushed me to find names that sound interesting to my ear.
So basically first were the titles. Later their meaning and real places. Only then (actually today) have I finished adding the titles to previously chosen photographs. How? Based on how they sound and what I see in the picture - so randomly, and not;)
To make it more post-modern I will try to put up a map of those places somewhere during the exhibition.

Afterwards I will start blogging about those places and see, how really could I connect them to the chosen photo.

So, lot's of work for the next year, hihi..

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And on a less serious note...shopping!

I cannot believe I did it, but well, too late now. Due to the fact I was stuck at home for three days now I had to much time to browse and look for shoes (my discreet hobby). So, ladies and gentlemen, two years after the arrival to this country I got those:

Not one, two...and I am still not sure if I will wear them, but I love the design.

No more sitting in front of my pc and thinking about shopping, done enough for this month!
Which reminds me - I have received the ordered first copy of Photoicon, the only digestible Photo magazine in the UK.

..the only place where I have seen all the current crucial exhibitions mentioned, together with  Mediastorm. Good stuff, pity that it's a quarterly..

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Nature

Although...if I think about it more....I will end up taking more industrial photos 'in the box'.
Nature has its own, wonderful backgrounds...


And there is no costs included;)


I wonder, will I ever have enough of those? OK, it's girly, but I don't care...humanity spent ages to reconstruct those colors, and they are just there, outside the windows...

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Forced to sit in front of pc...actually did something useful...

meaning I managed to find a place where I can get photographic equipment so cheap, that it's unbelievable! Ebay, of course. So here is a shy attempt to do more of still life this month:


It's called photobox, and it helps to gain lovely one-colored backgrounds for still life or add photos. It is actually just a box, so paying £40 for it sound a bit strange, but for £6 it already gains on value and it's good aspects - easy to carry (so I can go to the garden, pick a flower, put the box in the sunshine and still create a cool effect!), made of material which allows to use the lightening from sides or from behind (even more fun) and with backgrounds available in four colors! Ah, I am so happy! Cannot wait to try it out!:)

Such a tiny thing can make a blondie's day!:P

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surprise, surprise!

In my new flat there was only one place I have not checked yet, nor cleaned - partially because of lack of interest, partially because of the fact that someone else was always doing the cooking in my flat - I just started doing it few days ago - and this placed is called an oven.
This is what I have found there today:
Still don't get it? Let me help you: I wrote about it already, people usually do NOT put it in the over, they use a toaster...unless, they look for a great subject of a great industrial photo. Than yes, they do, and they leave it there for a few... what? hours? days? Hell knows how long you need to keep a toast int he oven to make it look like this?!:


It might be one of my best industrial pix of this year, though:)

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going mad

...while being at home I set up another blog! Ha, as if I didn't have enough of those already..well, I always wanted to have a nice photoblog, since it takes ages to upload something to my porfolio anyway, so here is is, i.e. will be...
http://sylwiapresley.aminus3.com
(I am putting the link this way, because it is not active yet)
..as soon as/if at all my first few pix will be approved.

Aminus3 is a cool engine, the customer support is quick and the interface dead easy, but nice features and 'internal' rules. No wonder it's on the 1st place on wiki's list of photoblog portals.

Me like it!

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Next exhibition

Soon, very soon...

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