Project Description

One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate each picture with a note of the weather for that morning and the morning’s main news headline from the BBC News site.  In addition, there will be a note taking a key sentence or two from my daily journal.

April 4^th 2014

Light cloud

Storm-damaged rail line reopens

She was the youngest of the three princesses.  No more and no less beautiful than her older sisters, but more loveable

April 5^th 2014

Light cloud

Afghans vote in historic election

Yes, that was the word, loveable.  She inspired love, and her name was Marijeka

April 6^th 2014

Light rain shower

Plane search signal ‘important lead’

A narrator so unreliable one might almost say he was treacherous

April 7^th 2014

Light rain

Plane search has ‘best lead so far’

Which was during the silver age of American comic books

April 8^th 2014

Sunny

Peaches Geldof family ‘beyond pain’

…and he was convinced the lyric was ‘hey you, get off of my car!’

April 9^th 2014

Light cloud

Miller quits as culture secretary

A crow was patrolling along the guttering, taking two hops and then stopping to look down at the people below

April 10^th 2014

Sunny intervals

Co-op woe as ex-minister quits board

She blew noisily at the cold air to see the vapour of her warm breath form little clouds and then dissipate

Artist Statement

… “natural history” has no actual existence other than through the process of human history, the only part which recaptures this historical totality, like the modern telescope whose sight captures, in time, the retreat of nebulae at the periphery of the universe.

Guy Debord – Society of the Spectacle

The purpose of this project is to explore continuity and change.  Over the course of a year, I will build up a daily visual record of the same view.  Despite my best efforts, though, I will not be able to replicate the ‘same’ view each day: it is subject to changes in the environment, such as the weather or the time the sun rises.  But it is also affected by changes caused by me, the observer.  For instance, my feelings that morning may change the way I hold the camera or, inadvertently, the image may show my breath on the glass from getting too close to the window.

Looking out at the view on this, the first morning of One Year, I see a scene comprising sky, trees and rooftops.  I don’t see much evidence of human activity just yet, but that may come later in the year when the leaf cover begins to thin out.  Being on a flight path, we also see the odd vapour trail or aeroplane light in the sky too.

Some of the changes that will become evident will be pretty obvious, such as the seasons.  Other changes will be more subtle.  My daily notes will give some insight into what is going on inside my head that morning, from my journal entry, and there will also be a record of what is happening in the world in general, from the news headline.

But the ‘view’ I am recording in One Year is not neutral, it is selected and framed by me.  Similarly, my journal extracts are selected from a much larger body of work; it is the ‘insight’ into my thinking that I choose to present.  Even the ‘news headline’ cannot be regarded as neutral, for it is subject to BBC editorial bias.

But there is a third party in the One Year process, one that is outside of my control. That person is you, the reader of this blog, the interested observer of the project.  I want people to bring their own interpretations, views and insights to this project.  All comments received will be reproduced in my weekly project reports.

Project Description

One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate each picture with a note of the weather for that morning and the morning’s main news headline from the BBC News site.  In addition, there will be a note taking a key sentence or two from my daily journal.

March 21^st 2014

Sunny

Teams scour ocean for missing plane

Can I be the only person in the world who finds Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables the most tedious film ever?

March 22^nd 2014

Light rain shower

Australia vows indefinite jet search

He sits on a bench so well-polished that his rump constantly slips and slumps

March 23^rd 2014

Light rain shower

Hunt widens after jet ‘debris’ clues

November 1840: the birth of time

March 24^th 2014

Sunny

Russian troops ‘overrun Crimea base’

A station hall and the smell of smoke; engine steam that billows and clings

March 25^th 2014

Light cloud

Bad weather halts missing jet search

Off the bus and straight into the George Robey

March 26^th 2014

Sunny

Abbott vows to solve plane ‘riddle’

A grand tour, edging through tribal territories

March 27^th 2014

Light cloud

‘Big Six’ face competition inquiry

Shop front names stake territorial claims

Artist Statement

… “natural history” has no actual existence other than through the process of human history, the only part which recaptures this historical totality, like the modern telescope whose sight captures, in time, the retreat of nebulae at the periphery of the universe.

Guy Debord – Society of the Spectacle

The purpose of this project is to explore continuity and change.  Over the course of a year, I will build up a daily visual record of the same view.  Despite my best efforts, though, I will not be able to replicate the ‘same’ view each day: it is subject to changes in the environment, such as the weather or the time the sun rises.  But it is also affected by changes caused by me, the observer.  For instance, my feelings that morning may change the way I hold the camera or, inadvertently, the image may show my breath on the glass from getting too close to the window.

Looking out at the view on this, the first morning of One Year, I see a scene comprising sky, trees and rooftops.  I don’t see much evidence of human activity just yet, but that may come later in the year when the leaf cover begins to thin out.  Being on a flight path, we also see the odd vapour trail or aeroplane light in the sky too.

Some of the changes that will become evident will be pretty obvious, such as the seasons.  Other changes will be more subtle.  My daily notes will give some insight into what is going on inside my head that morning, from my journal entry, and there will also be a record of what is happening in the world in general, from the news headline.

But the ‘view’ I am recording in One Year is not neutral, it is selected and framed by me.  Similarly, my journal extracts are selected from a much larger body of work; it is the ‘insight’ into my thinking that I choose to present.  Even the ‘news headline’ cannot be regarded as neutral, for it is subject to BBC editorial bias.

But there is a third party in the One Year process, one that is outside of my control. That person is you, the reader of this blog, the interested observer of the project.  I want people to bring their own interpretations, views and insights to this project.  All comments received will be reproduced in my weekly project reports.

Project Description

One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate each picture with a note of the weather for that morning and the morning’s main news headline from the BBC News site.  In addition, there will be a note taking a key sentence or two from my daily journal.

March 14^th 2014

Light cloud

Labour stalwart Tony Benn dies at 88

Embracing Revelation’s two thousand years of holiness, Dewdrop leaves by night without saying goodbye, and his wife and children remind themselves to forget

March 15^th 2014

Sunny intervals

Missing jet ‘deliberately diverted’

But then, Agamemnon in New York has a certain ring to it

March 16^th 2014

Sunny

Crimea holds secession referendum

Old men linger, the caretaker generation

March 17^th 2014

Sunny intervals

EU mulls Russia sanction over Crimea

Guarding buildings and books.  Remembering.

March 18^th 2014

Light rain shower

China begins land search for plane

We walk up Cambridge Heath Road, past Bethnal Green tube, and on to Hackney.  Victoria Park Road is on our right

March 19^th 2014

Light cloud

Osborne to deliver ‘Budget for resilient UK’

I stand before the green front door and ring the bell. I’ve never got round to asking Ramona why she hasn’t painted it yellow.

March 20^th 2014

Light cloud

Australia sees possible plane debris

A Julian calendar is pinned to the wall and looks down as she screams and flounders in bathwater turned chill.

Artist Statement

… “natural history” has no actual existence other than through the process of human history, the only part which recaptures this historical totality, like the modern telescope whose sight captures, in time, the retreat of nebulae at the periphery of the universe.

Guy Debord – Society of the Spectacle

The purpose of this project is to explore continuity and change.  Over the course of a year, I will build up a daily visual record of the same view.  Despite my best efforts, though, I will not be able to replicate the ‘same’ view each day: it is subject to changes in the environment, such as the weather or the time the sun rises.  But it is also affected by changes caused by me, the observer.  For instance, my feelings that morning may change the way I hold the camera or, inadvertently, the image may show my breath on the glass from getting too close to the window.

Looking out at the view on this, the first morning of One Year, I see a scene comprising sky, trees and rooftops.  I don’t see much evidence of human activity just yet, but that may come later in the year when the leaf cover begins to thin out.  Being on a flight path, we also see the odd vapour trail or aeroplane light in the sky too.

Some of the changes that will become evident will be pretty obvious, such as the seasons.  Other changes will be more subtle.  My daily notes will give some insight into what is going on inside my head that morning, from my journal entry, and there will also be a record of what is happening in the world in general, from the news headline.

But the ‘view’ I am recording in One Year is not neutral, it is selected and framed by me.  Similarly, my journal extracts are selected from a much larger body of work; it is the ‘insight’ into my thinking that I choose to present.  Even the ‘news headline’ cannot be regarded as neutral, for it is subject to BBC editorial bias.

But there is a third party in the One Year process, one that is outside of my control. That person is you, the reader of this blog, the interested observer of the project.  I want people to bring their own interpretations, views and insights to this project.  All comments received will be reproduced in my weekly project reports.

Project Description

One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate each picture with a note of the weather for that morning and the morning’s main news headline from the BBC News site.  In addition, there will be a note taking a key sentence or two from my daily journal.

March 7^th 2014

Light rain

Obama pushes Putin on Crimea talks

She follows the thought, pulling it up by its roots

March 8^th 2014

Thick cloud

Malaysia Airlines plane vanishes

Meths drinkers, feral kids, street performers, pie and mash shops

March 9^th 2014

Sunny

Missing plane ‘may have turned back’

Cohen took his camera out into the streets to record a way of life that was rapidly disappearing

March 10^th 2014

Sunny

Missing Malaysia jet ‘a mystery’

Those physiotherapists of bricks and mortar, striving to heal old wounds

March 11^th 2014

Sunny intervals

Malaysia missing plane search widens

Slights upon the character of the landscape

March 12^th 2014

Thick cloud

Labour ‘won’t guarantee EU poll’

She took it all in; the sun and rain belonged to her, her alone

March 13^th 2014

Thick cloud

Children’s heart surgery unit ‘safe’

Nurturing with murderous love

Artist Statement

… “natural history” has no actual existence other than through the process of human history, the only part which recaptures this historical totality, like the modern telescope whose sight captures, in time, the retreat of nebulae at the periphery of the universe.

Guy Debord – Society of the Spectacle

The purpose of this project is to explore continuity and change.  Over the course of a year, I will build up a daily visual record of the same view.  Despite my best efforts, though, I will not be able to replicate the ‘same’ view each day: it is subject to changes in the environment, such as the weather or the time the sun rises.  But it is also affected by changes caused by me, the observer.  For instance, my feelings that morning may change the way I hold the camera or, inadvertently, the image may show my breath on the glass from getting too close to the window.

Looking out at the view on this, the first morning of One Year, I see a scene comprising sky, trees and rooftops.  I don’t see much evidence of human activity just yet, but that may come later in the year when the leaf cover begins to thin out.  Being on a flight path, we also see the odd vapour trail or aeroplane light in the sky too.

Some of the changes that will become evident will be pretty obvious, such as the seasons.  Other changes will be more subtle.  My daily notes will give some insight into what is going on inside my head that morning, from my journal entry, and there will also be a record of what is happening in the world in general, from the news headline.

But the ‘view’ I am recording in One Year is not neutral, it is selected and framed by me.  Similarly, my journal extracts are selected from a much larger body of work; it is the ‘insight’ into my thinking that I choose to present.  Even the ‘news headline’ cannot be regarded as neutral, for it is subject to BBC editorial bias.

But there is a third party in the One Year process, one that is outside of my control. That person is you, the reader of this blog, the interested observer of the project.  I want people to bring their own interpretations, views and insights to this project.  All comments received will be reproduced in my weekly project reports.

Project Description

One Year is a project through which I intend to construct a daily photographic record of a single view: the view from my study window at around 8.00a.m. each day when I sit down to work.  One Year will annotate each picture with a note of the weather for that morning and the morning’s main news headline from the BBC News site.  In addition, there will be a note taking a key sentence or two from my daily journal.

February 28^th 2014

Light rain

Crackdown on fake shares fraudsters

She plays a Freudian game with the readers

March 1^st 2014

Sunny intervals

Crimean leader appeals to Putin

He walked, absently gathering up sensual impressions, more from habit than strategy

March 2^nd 2014

Light cloud

Obama urges Putin to recall troops

A rag-picking somnambulist

March 3^rd 2014

Sunny

G7 condemns Russia over Ukraine

It’s a place I’ve passed through many times, but I’ve yet to stop, to walk, to look

March 4^th 2014

Sunny intervals

Yanukovytch ‘asked Russia for troops’

They quote his every word, declare even his shopping lists the most sublime of poetry

March 5^th 2014

Sunny intervals

US-Russia talks over Ukraine crisis

He prided himself on the acuity of his self-awareness, yet only became aware of the façade of his life when it began to fall away

March 6^th 2014

Light cloud

EU summit to tackle Ukraine crisis

A life lived with no stain, no memory, no echoes

Artist Statement

… “natural history” has no actual existence other than through the process of human history, the only part which recaptures this historical totality, like the modern telescope whose sight captures, in time, the retreat of nebulae at the periphery of the universe.

Guy Debord – Society of the Spectacle

The purpose of this project is to explore continuity and change.  Over the course of a year, I will build up a daily visual record of the same view.  Despite my best efforts, though, I will not be able to replicate the ‘same’ view each day: it is subject to changes in the environment, such as the weather or the time the sun rises.  But it is also affected by changes caused by me, the observer.  For instance, my feelings that morning may change the way I hold the camera or, inadvertently, the image may show my breath on the glass from getting too close to the window.

Looking out at the view on this, the first morning of One Year, I see a scene comprising sky, trees and rooftops.  I don’t see much evidence of human activity just yet, but that may come later in the year when the leaf cover begins to thin out.  Being on a flight path, we also see the odd vapour trail or aeroplane light in the sky too.

Some of the changes that will become evident will be pretty obvious, such as the seasons.  Other changes will be more subtle.  My daily notes will give some insight into what is going on inside my head that morning, from my journal entry, and there will also be a record of what is happening in the world in general, from the news headline.

But the ‘view’ I am recording in One Year is not neutral, it is selected and framed by me.  Similarly, my journal extracts are selected from a much larger body of work; it is the ‘insight’ into my thinking that I choose to present.  Even the ‘news headline’ cannot be regarded as neutral, for it is subject to BBC editorial bias.

But there is a third party in the One Year process, one that is outside of my control. That person is you, the reader of this blog, the interested observer of the project.  I want people to bring their own interpretations, views and insights to this project.  All comments received will be reproduced in my weekly project reports.