Visiting new places, has always been a great source of inspiration to me. Maybe unsurprisingly, there is something about seeing new environments that evokes fresh thought and ideas. Many projects have and are founded in a seemingly random photograph, taken while exploring an alien and unfamiliar landscape.
For these reasons I am putting together a blog catergory of places. It will serve pretty much as a journal (very unique idea, I know). It will be a recording of the places I go, of the things I see and the ideas I have. Hopefully you will find the memos and images more original than the concept.

Swanage

Not strictly a new place for me, as I visited Swanage numerous times as a child. However as a grown up (supposedly), it was landscape that would  seen from a new perspective, laden with nostalgia, which offered interesting situation. It is always a risky business revisiting the past, in any context. Revisiting places you loved as a child is a particularly high stakes gamble. You run the risk of not only being dissappointed but also doubting the reliabillity of those original memories. On the contrary, I found Swanage filled with more charm and more to explore than I remembered. On top of this I was free to explore the place without the limitations imposed by parents, which were inforced last time I was on holiday there and with this new found freedom, I found myself doing exactly the same as parents! Long walks, gallery visits, tea and scones!? Talking to a befriended black bird (pictured below). May be this is the kind of behaviour this beautiful town evokes!

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