_’I have been photographing this garden for a number of months, documenting the change from managed to wild nature. I come for an hour, usually no longer and usually at first light.’
16th August 2018
’We have just bought The Anchorage and found your note in amongst a huge pile of old post. We are proposing to demolish it and would be very happy if you wanted to come and take photos of the inside…’_
10th April 2019
The Anchorage is about seismic changes, quietly expressed, bound-up in a small bungalow on the edge of a rural English village. It is a retrospective foray into a past life with all the memories and associations housed therein. It is a form of ritual, when the usual rituals performed over the years have fallen away. It is a way of projecting oneself into another space – an attempt to feel part of something else, a bigger picture and a new life. It is a manual for the future and an archive of the past.
The alchemy of apples sculpted into delicate, translucent, hollowed-out orbs by tiny beaks is not forgotten. The jewel like shimmer of butterfly wings collecting in dusty, discarded webs is not a mirage. The foxes are still dancing on their matchbox stage.
The project provides a way of negotiating ideas of change in a time of upheaval, and reflects on the nature of the photographic document when what it depicts is permanently erased.
©djnorwood2020
16th August 2018
’We have just bought The Anchorage and found your note in amongst a huge pile of old post. We are proposing to demolish it and would be very happy if you wanted to come and take photos of the inside…’_
10th April 2019
The Anchorage is about seismic changes, quietly expressed, bound-up in a small bungalow on the edge of a rural English village. It is a retrospective foray into a past life with all the memories and associations housed therein. It is a form of ritual, when the usual rituals performed over the years have fallen away. It is a way of projecting oneself into another space – an attempt to feel part of something else, a bigger picture and a new life. It is a manual for the future and an archive of the past.
The alchemy of apples sculpted into delicate, translucent, hollowed-out orbs by tiny beaks is not forgotten. The jewel like shimmer of butterfly wings collecting in dusty, discarded webs is not a mirage. The foxes are still dancing on their matchbox stage.
The project provides a way of negotiating ideas of change in a time of upheaval, and reflects on the nature of the photographic document when what it depicts is permanently erased.
©djnorwood2020