Ends and Beginnings

Well tomorrow is the official end of LOOK/13 in Liverpool, so I went to see one of my books on display in Central Library (Picton Reading Room) for the last time and to distribute the few remaining postcards.

I was hoping I'd be able to take my camera for a walk and make a picture of some significance to mark the end but unfortunately it was very bad weather, raining cats and dogs and blowing a gale. At one point I was waiting for the lights to change so I could cross the road, huddled under a Primark umbrella I'd hastily bought, when the woman next to me, without turning her head just shouted 'horrible!' in the thickest scouse accent as she pulled the cord tight on her anorak hood. That said it all really.

So I thought I'd include the final (94th) picture from my book, which just happens to link really well with the next exhibition I'm taking part in. The hydrangea photograph above was taken a few years ago but must have sat in my subconscious and emerged last year as a full on hydrangea project called pH6. Some work from this project is in a group show called Roast Beef in Arles, France from the 1-5 July curated by Mark Page and Ed Watts. I will be adding more information and images here soon but please check out the work and the exhibition:

www.marcprovins.co.uk/ then follow the link on the left for pH6

ROAST BEEF FB page

Les Rencontres Arles

Of course if you want to see more information about Searching, my book project for LOOK/13 please follow the link here:

Searching

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A Lovely Pair of Pins

I knew the expression 'pins' referring to legs but had to Google what the Cockney rhyming slang comes from. It looks like 'pins & pegs', but there are some great alternatives like 'bacon & eggs' and 'dolly pegs'. I think I might start trying to incorporate more Cockney into my everyday speak, I do have London roots but they are more South (Saff) London than East London, where I think it originates. Anyway this is all to illustrate a new picture that sits quite neatly with an older picture. So brogues, legs and a sea view from my two main muses. This might be turning into a set... Oh by the way the top view is Morecambe Bay and the lower image is from The Wirral looking across towards Wales. The North West of England is a beautiful place, with some stylish residents.

Hold Your Hair In Deep Devotion

At last after a week of being indoors, I walked into the light! I went solo and had a photography day in Liverpool, just what the doctor ordered, as they say. I'm a bit out of words at the moment and was going to include a Philip Larkin poem, but I've been thinking that Alex Turner is my modern day poet hero and this is my favourite track on AM, tucked away at the end. He's in his twenties and yet the words suggest a time before he was born, filling my head with images and memories. I've included a link to the track if you want to listen to The Arctic Monkey doing their thing whilst taking in my pictures... UPDATE Well since writing the above it has been pointed out to me that the song is actually based on a poem by John Cooper Clarke, which makes sense of the time frame (being written in the early Eighties) and the fact that I responded to the lyrics like a poem. Apparently Alex Turner first heard it read by his English teacher whilst at school. So mayb

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