Inspired by Marie Menken’s Lights (1966), I scratched dotted lines into black-painted glass and photographed it against bright windows and screens. A quick, lo-fi trick turning simple marks into floating strings of colour and light.
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Ruth Asawa’s looping wire forms made me think of Spirograph drawings. With a marker, ruler and sheets of acetate, I built quick cones of cross-hatching and photographed them to coax out that same floating sense of volume.
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As an art student—steeped in B-movies and their rubbery monsters—I started experimenting with nylon and PVA glue to sculpt my own low-budget creatures #MarchMonsterMadness
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Something otherworldly comes pouring down the old steps of the old house on this #PhantomsFriday
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Eyeballing you again - only no actual eyeballs were harmed in the making of this photograph!
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More ‘fundus photography’: an ad-hoc set-up of glass, latex, water and ink, photographed outdoors. The eyes have it, as they say.
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They're marvelling at the seed head of a wild carrot, and frankly, who can blame them?
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Circling back to the way Karl Blossfeldt’s close studies turn plants into sculptures—I built these little ‘stages’ of seed heads and stems and photographed them as grand exhibits
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#art #stilllife #botanical #miniatures #photography #diorama
This is a strange and perfect thing!
Inspired by Saul Bass’s urgent titles for Hitchcock’s Psycho, Vertigogo strips things back to dots, dashes and sliding lines — tension built from almost nothing.
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Mirrors and still water have long been part of folklore about spirit portals and divination — used in scrying to glimpse hidden visions or other realms...
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Lovely!
Another image of a plastic-covered sofa, another non-mountain, but a 'non-mountain' with a Japanese vibe...
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An outsized leather sofa, still swaddled in plastic, becomes an accidental landscape. Different light turned the creases and folds into ridgelines and Alpine illusions — a small act of Romanticism played out in the front room.
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... is kind of you!
Like a graphical illustration, it's so spare and minimalist!
The Kick-About is a fortnightly creative prompt: one shared cue, many interpretations, and an excuse to experiment. For No.152, the theme was ‘finger puppet’...
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The Lenten Rose—with its shy intricate markings, are a garden favourite of mine and black and white brings out their lovely, splashy markings.
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I loved this movie! Sally Hawkins was brilliant in this - had me shouting at the television. Best horror movie I've seen in a long time (but had to watch some of the 'teeth stuff' through my fingers...)
Helleborus orientalis always keeps its markings half-hidden, flowers bowed low. I picked and pressed a few, then photographed them on perspex over strong light to dissolve the structure into inky, x-ray-like splashes.
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Taken with Joaquín Torres-García’s tactile toy blocks, I made my own; cardboard box moulds filled with plaster, painted, then sanded back. Smooth, weighty forms made to be arranged and rearranged.
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Low winter sunlight catches dried hog’s fennel and brittle grasses on a coastal slope. Pale stems glow softly against muted greens and greys, creating a delicate, filigree-like pattern across the windswept hillside.
As the last of the sun slipped away, the slopes took on a wintery aspect. The metallic filigree effects produced by the sunlight catching in the old umbrellas of the Hog’s fennel was otherworldly.
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#photography #landscapephotography #Kent #botanical #nature
Close view of a windswept hillside covered in long, pale grasses and dried wild plants. Bleached straw tones mix with muted greens and hints of rusty red stems, creating a soft, textured surface that fills the frame with late-autumn colour and movement.
A short walk along the blustery seafront brings you to Tankerton Slopes—hog’s fennel and brambles rising above the beach huts. Bleached grasses and skeletal plants turn the hillside into pure texture.
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#photography #landscape #Whitstable #Kent #seaside
Thank you for 'spooken-ing' my day.
Wow! Like an abstract in watercolour
Beneath St Leonard’s Church in Hythe #Kent sits a small medieval #ossuary: neat stacks of skulls and long bones — an appropriate day trip on this #PhantomsFriday
Thank you for liking my severed head!
Long-exposure photograph inside a dark, empty room with a fireplace on the left and a doorway at the back. Suspended in mid-air is a large, tilted ring of blue and white light trails, forming concentric elliptical loops like a glowing vortex. The cool neon lines contrast with the shadowy interior and a faint warm light beyond the doorway.
Conjuring portals out of thin air in the old dark house...
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Long-exposure photograph inside a dark, derelict room. A swirling oval of neon light trails—blue, green and purple—hovers in mid-air near the ceiling, like a luminous vortex. Below it, old wooden doors lean against the wall, and a window casts faint, cold light into the space, heightening the eerie atmosphere.
From the series '351' - named after the number of the old derelict house in which I stayed all night to capture otherworldly goings-on!
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