Three

  THE IMAGES EVOKE a mood or a certain sentiment that I seek to incorporate into my collection but they also provide the visual components for further development of previous propositions. There is often a period of gestation after images are found and refined. Expanding on images of the bamboo forests and the Angkor Wat, I have focussed on the almost elegiac costumes and rites of the Shinto priesthood. There is the transience of the material realm but there is also within that a sense of the eternal and timeless.

  Having established the mood, these images now furnish ideas for colour, fabric ornamentation and silhouettes. I find myself particularly attracted to the surfeit of meaning embedded in the plain absence of their costumes and also, interestingly, to the manner in which these priests are surrounded by coincidental flashes of colour.

  The priest and the actor playing a good game of chess appears to be the embodiment of the austere, the esoteric and the humorous - I suspect they shall be the visual key that will enable me to elaborate upon a most exciting process.

Fin.