So I’m doing a self portrait, okay, where do I start, a picture… a picture of me. No. Can’t do that. A… Photo of a piece of music? Too obvious. A camera? Too… meta. Six photos, three videos, three sound bites. Okay. Let’s do it.
1. The Coffee Cup
The natural choice for a student. This cappuccino sums it up. They say you can tell a lot about a person by their tea vs coffee preference. No tea here.
2. The Daily Commute
Every day, I make the journey. Much of my life is spent here, at the platform… waiting. The tracks seem endless, just like the stopover.
3. Hilltop Sunset
Taken on a hill in Upper Ferntree Gully, watching the sunset with friends, I snapped this one whilst looking for self inspiration. Though you can’t see my friends, they mean a lot to me. They were there.
4. A New Favourite Place
This is my favourite place on Campus at RMIT. There is something about this alley that is so thrilling and beautiful. The spot under the mural is rarely populated and it’s a beautiful place to retreat from people. Solitude is important to me as an only child, and this place is where I go for it.
5. The Lakes
The Gippsland Lakes and it’s surrounding area is my favourite place in Victoria, it’s so quiet and still and surprisingly picturesque. So much of my best thinking is done here. The water is beautiful. This photo was taken one New Years Eve as the sunset through the masts of the docked yachts.
6. My Instrument
This is home for me. There’s a transcendent disconnect music brings. It’s pure magic.
My Audio:
1/ The start of an original piano track I wrote for a short film, this represents both the importance of music, as well as my journey making films.
2/ The twelve bar blues scale on guitar. This is a familiar sound, my Dad practising his guitar while I work at home.
3/ The soundscape of Melbourne. This sound effect accompanies the photo of RMIT.
My Clips:
1. Night Out of Focus
This is more of an abstraction of what I feel my mind is like. Sometimes it is quiet and sometimes there are things moving quickly. It’s always kind of dark and hard to see. Someone turn the lights on please.
2. Walking Through the Park
So much of the area around my house is parkland and I find myself constantly walking through it. I have grown in my appreciation of the seasons this way. I am more in tune with the way nature works. This video is taken on the very edge of parkland.
3. On the Train
Again, as I said, I find myself here all the time. Though I am fascinated by the zoetrope-like effect of light shining through train windows and this connects to an early fascination I have with animation.