These experiments are about standing on the boundary or threshold of a new and different world. They are a response to peering into hedgerows, the hollows of trees or travelling down previously unexplored sunken lanes or through hollow ways. There is a magical sense of journeying into the unknown and of experiencing the unexpected. These spaces present the possibility of becoming portals into other worlds. Sanctuaries of safety and protection from the vagaries of this one....
Hedge Portals
Photomontage (blog post 06/02/23) is the starting point for this work. I have torn holes in paper to mask off sections to work from (see below)