fear to imagine - part of the process

This is a new video that I have been playing around with.

Since the return it has taken a while to let all the images, emotions and the landscape sink into me. The time has been spent editing over 220 clips then learning iMovie and working out how to put it all together into a format that would work as both a documentary travel type log and as a creative process in the video format.

In the interviewing process that Sue is working on there was, for me, the struggle to come to terms with the where, why and what of the creation of this new body of work. It has been like I have struggled from the beginning when I realised that the editing and the making of the simple movies has been just as creative as drawing and painting - I had begun. You are just using different tools and mediums. Now I am ready to make a statement in the work.

I then realised that where I did some interesting pieces plein air was on the banks of the Darling River at Kinchega National Park with the blackbird nagging me in the background. It was then that the idea of working with a poet might work too. I then decided to contact the poet we met at the Poetry launch at Broken Hill Regional Gallery.

This statement is now beginning to take shape in a more poetic form with a collaborative approach with Barbara De Franceschi from Broken Hill - an established poet that I met on our last weekend in residence. We have begun to correspond through email and snail mail.

This video has only my words at this stage. The work is titled 'fear to imagine' and it evokes the emotions that I struggled with those first days in residence and being challenged by new technology and the surreal landscape that we were confronted with on our first field trip. It is still raw but depicts those feelings that I felt at the time.

I have sent a DVD to Barbara this week and will let the images sink in from the places that I visited. Then the exciting stuff might just happen.

Lorna