Ideas for pictures
A list of some of the many ideas for pictures, written down in notebooks over the last three years:
Navel gazer
Key opens tree passages to anywhere in the city
Gods on black paper outline in white absence makes shape
Edge of the earth
the book of symbols
his midnight self
'circling the drain' (near death)
Atman-hindu-moon in body
Bending moonlight around trees with mirrors
Planet eaters!
metamorphosis - boy to perch caught by heron - king arthur
Scene based on talks by Bertland Russell
Dark figures in off black bleed out of background to hug/interact with figures in foreground
Guiding lights/illuminated paths/bending light rays/guiding figures/ fringes of groups/followers/a state of wonder and magic/ symbolic forest/'pathfinders'
Use wheat field and put swallow the sun inside..
"The wood was not quite an English wood, though it was very like it. The trees were a little too ancient, a little too vast and a little too fantastic in shape. Strange had the strong impression that they possessed fully formed characters, with loves, hates and desires of their own. They looked as if they were accustomed to being treated equally with men and women, and expected to be consulted in all matters that concerned him" jonathan strange & doctor norrell
Dylan Thomas Black
man protecting fox from hounds - sid
Estate agent praying at false idol / "great views of the moon" selling house to family of nocturnal animals
phone rays hypnosis
'Needing enemies' (p37 christina and her double)
feeding seedlings with a spoon
Self contained image - landscape pot with forest growing out, light reflectors are inside
Staking plants - man amongst complex branches tying knots around trunks/stalks. Possibly a series of 3 images about original humans?
yoga class with one person looking at seagull outside
bird swooping low on water as in Ometepe
Capitalist warriors suited and booted figures jousting in adversity with screens and laptops and ties
Grafitti gazelle and greedy grazelda
Plastic bag crosses road like the angel of death
Likes the sound of his own voice
Xylograph
"dividuals" - harari
lighthouse / signaller
A wild bird hold there, and let it sleep - autumn p210
Pageant walt whitman
'Colourmaker'
Figure in broad natural landscape beam of light reflecting in face looking inwards
Subverted flags
'trickle down effect' squatting pisser with drop in gutter
gin cat!
'Finding your feet'
Ghopal
Princes reading in tree
Sleeping poses
'Gathering fear'
Magnolias from walk
Momo graphic designy type image
Gathering in corners of mountain for mobile phone reception
Folding moth biz card
Indian bicycle rider combing hair 'commute'
Jewish fish spice holder / Japanese earthquake carp
Forest man of india