" Over the Bridge and Far Away "

' OVER THE BRIDGE AND FAR AWAY '

Project: Escape is now complete - shown as a 

digital gallery to display my creative works-of-art.

Additionally, if you'd like to know more about WHY & HOW I started all this, then click here:

WHY & HOW

" Around in a Spiral " ...

One of my colour wheels

Escape ... seems to be forming as some sort of circular imagery - maybe based on 7 &/or 12 segments to represent life cycles? spirals? Other notes:

Equations - circumference, diameter etc

Maybe doors ... openings ... things hidden & visible

A verse also comes to mind:

"Spirits are attracted to the movement of cloth"

" The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe " ...

One of my 'colour' wardrobes

Whilst playing a track on my iPod this morning, a track sparked off a 'special' escape I tried several times when very much younger ...

In my mother's wardrobe were a selection of fur coats and being an avid reader of The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe, I also wanted to visit this magical land. I tried many times in school holidays (usually) but was unable to get anywhere so when the film of the book came out several years ago, I went to see it. The magical place was exactly as I had then imagined it!

On reflection now, its ironic that over the years on numerous occasions, I have managed to 'escape'  via a wardrobe ... strangely to somewhere that involved making clothes !

Patterns ...

I love pattern - have done for as long as I can remember. Working along from one of the Jacob's Ladder photos a few weeks go, I've produced this:

As a repeating unit & thinking of 'Escape' : webs - nets - meshes, here's a selection of initial conceptual ideas:

Diamond shape pattern - skirt panels ?

Square net or mesh insets

Frosted mesh

Embroidered panels

A bridge to step back in time ...

Yesterday I stepped back in time with my camera & visited the childhood place I mentioned Sunday. Although now painted in bright colours, I remember it being predominantly dark grey.

Here are some shots of ' Jacob's Ladder ' as I remember it:

Jacob's Ladder - steps

Bridge supports

Jacob's Ladder Walkway (facing north)

Jacob's Ladder Walkway (facing south)

With the aid of today's computer manipulation,

I can show 2 images 'seen in my head' from a long time ago

Rain puddles & reflected patterns

Metalwork patterns

Ghosts layed to rest ?

(taking my shots, a hooded figure appeared on the bridge, walked past me & left at the exit)

Jacob's Ladder Hooded Figure

As I came to leave (reflected in the sunlight), were an amazing set of netted patterns

- rather appropriately positioned as I was standing over the main railway networks!

(some computer graphics have transformed it ready for use at a later stage)

The bridge of reflections ...

The background image to my on-line gallery, is a reminder of a childhood memory (aged 4 or 5). On journeys to the local shops, I had to walk over an old cement-floored railway bridge that had metalwork above it. In the rain, I would carefully step along the reflections of the metal beams .... pretending that if I fell off them, I would either drown or be run over by a steam train!

These reflected patterns would come to be stored as lifetime images !

Jacob's Ladder : biblical reference

• Jacob's Ladder : toy