Well, it has definitely been a hot day here at the Soil Factory! This morning there was a lovely covering of dew all over the grounds when I went out to record. It was so beautiful!
In addition to my morning walk around the land here, complete with photographs and field recordings, I’ve been working this afternoon on the video project I started yesterday. As I cull through the footage and audio that I currently have, I think that I am really starting to get a lot of ideas and possibilities going.
One of the video projects is an installation piece for single monitor video. It will feature jittery highly processed video taken on site, in vivid colors with sound recordings that will more realistic to what I hear on site. Here is an excerpt of what I am working on
The audio from this was recorded this morning, and was taken in/near field 2. The video is from the top of what I’ve been calling field one, in the top left corner, facing the marshy garden below. This will go through a few different permutations before it is done, and I anticipate the full loop lasting about 3-5 minutes.
The second project will be an experimental short film. In this excerpt, we are looking at highly processed footage from The Marshy Garden, with very processed field recordings from the past four days.
This evening I will be partaking in the Darkroom time, and learning a bit about working with Cyanotype! Really looking forward to that.
An update on the rainstick: I may not get the tubing for the rainstick on time, but I am still taking insects! This will definitely be finished this summer, and I am hoping to exhibit it this coming fall in Baltimore, and it would be great to bring it up here so you can enjoy it as well. I will continue to keep everyone posted on how it ends up, and where it goes.
