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[JMRead]

Please use headphones to hear the audio track properly

All the background images for this video were made at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Upon our first visit early in 2015 the work that I saw in the landscape set me thinking about making my own figure in the landscape images and so I returned several times to make more images. I decided to make the final images as montages and I posed as the anonymous 'Everyman' and incorporated these into the photographs. I also recorded the sound at the YSP; from the reception area to the far reaches of its five hundred acres. The background sounds are stretched by a factor of ten I like the effect and think of the slowly changing life of a sculpture, other sounds are as recorded.

I think the whole idea of sculpture in the landscape is at the same time strange and beautiful, the ordinary person like me meeting the extraordinary and I've tried to convey this in the sound track. My ideas evolved as I realised how I could use various software programs and I was able to produce something that reflected my joy in posing, the landscape and the human traits we assign to non human forms.

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I have contacted the Senior Curator and the Communications Manager at the YSP and they have confirmed that this video may be screened anywhere in the world with the proviso that I do not seek any financial reward.

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I began this video caper using Movie Maker from Win8 and ended up with Cyberlink Power Director Ultra 14.

Cheers - Jem

 

[ChrisLumix]

Good to see you posting again Jem. I don't have the opportunity to watch the video right now, but hope to catch up with it.