It is November 19th 2018, ten days after the ten year anniversary of losing my mother, and 8.5 years since I first stood in a Lavender field at dawn, about to take the very first picture in The Wonderland Series.
Today I sit in front of my laptop, adrenaline coursing through my veins as I try to find the right words to explain my excitement at the news I am about to share with you.
‘Full Circle’
It was April when I woke and knew something had changed. I lay in bed and felt it in every inch of my body. It was impossible to explain – there were no signs, no sickness, I just knew.
Read More›(Above, the original Kickstarter campaign film)
I can barely believe that the last time I wrote in this diary it was June, the months have passed so quickly I hardly know where or how to start.
Read More›BBC News interview at Mead Carney Gallery
(For full film of gallery opening scroll down)
It’s June 5th, the London show has opened, and the weeks have been a blur of unimaginable proportions for me. My life has changed significantly in ways I have yet to explain, but will soon fill these pages in the months to come.
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I honestly have no idea where to start with writing this new diary entry. As you can probably tell by the lengthy garbled title, so much has happened I’m at a bit of a loss for how to get this all down. So I’m just going to blurt it out in one over-excited chunk, deep breath here goes …….
Wonderland’ wins the Grand Prize for LensCulture’s Visual Storytelling Award ‘Fictional Narrative’ category
If you had sat me down a month ago, and told me the title of this diary entry, I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t have believed a word of it.
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‘Home’
I have lost count of the times I have started writing this entry, in the past few weeks, my broken paragraphs have stumbled between sadness, joy, relief and loss all at once, and I know I have worried far too much over the sound of my own voice.
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‘The Stars Of Spring Will Carry You Home’ (150cm x 150cm)I have loved this photograph from the very first day I took it over 9 months ago in the summer of 2013. It is full of all the things that drive and inspire me in my work, theatre, human connection, colour, the landscape, and above all a certain unsaid English eccentricity.
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To tell the truth, recently I have begun to the feel the pressure of how many people are waiting for the release of the new Wonderland pictures, and the length of time everything has been taking.
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