I have had many differing responses to this project. Strangers have told me how they feel about their life and about dying. People I have expected to laugh have shared profound insight. Often people seem to understand what I am doing better than I do. A friend recently wrote saying he imagined me tending the…

To keep in line with the light I  have switched to filming at 8.30 am. There is something weirdly exciting about this. It marks the progression of the project, and is the first change in my morning routine in for four months. I have a close friend who worked out a while ago that if…

When I step in front of the camera I think of myself  knitting Loopholes in space time Connecting one day to the next With an identikit moment Bending the universe into a pattern Like a key connecting in a lock Click Here I am Back again Same place, same time, same moment, same Sam

I don’t like to think of myself as a superstitious person. Today I started tape number 13. I thought about not having a tape 13 for the film, but that would be being superstitious. For the first time in the project I couldn’t film because the rain was coming so hard at the camera and…

There is an irony in moving to a really remote place for a quieter pace of life only to find you just have to do more travelling, which was what had happened by the time I started this project. I was exhausted by it. I also felt I had no real idea of whether this…

We have just passed the equinox and I am now a quarter of the way through which seems quite incredible. Yesterday was the first day I didn’t need a light filter, and the sun, which was straight in my eyes just a month ago, is now tucked behind the trees. The light is changing rapidly.…