During 1997/8 I made a photographic transparency from a top landing window every day for a year.  In these pictures a small patch of sky is bordered by an architectural detail of uncertain age and scale.  It is an urban sky above a city block, securely bonded with white walls that reflect dramatically different light and weather conditions.  As the year progresses we can detect a marked shift in colour and cloud formations and the accompanying record of dates and times records the shortening and lengthening of the day.

When the slide sequence is projected we become familiar with this view and the many possible differences between each frame become the locus for attention and speculation.

This piece was shown in Bangalore, India, as part of Watching, Waiting, Listening, a joint exhibition with Robin Sewell in March 1998. 

It seemed appropriate to take work which directly related to the English obsession with the weather to a site in India where weather is experienced quite differently and the second piece that I made for this exhibition was about the reflected sky.

Harbour depicted the same patch of water in St Katherine’s Dock, London, and the 12 photographs in the sequence were selected from a larger body of images, made over the course of 1997.  Twelve pictures of water taken from the same spot at roughly the same time of day result in a surprisingly diverse collection which I hope prompts a visual correspondence to a range of emotions.

Click here to view Harbour