Stay the Same

  • #15 Radio 4 Listeners

    I’ve been getting lots of messages and interest in the film since Monday and it may well reach a larger audience as a result of all the press coverage (increasing it’s value for the tax payers money even more, if you see it that way!), I hope so. I am going to write more about…

  • #14 The Telegraph & Tabloids

    A few months ago I wrote about the range of reponses I was having to this project and invited people to submit a response artistic or otherwise see creating a living notebook. In one of the posts below is a lovely drawing by Mia who is aged 8. This was partly because I am working…

  • Response #13 Mia’s Timeline

  • Response #12 Abby Boutlebee

    Mending Wall ‘Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,’ Robert Frost, 1914 This is a clip of hands (mine and the instructor’s) mending a drystone wall near Edinburgh as part of an employability project for homeless young people. As we worked, I started thinking about you and your film project. Frost’s poem was also…

  • #11 Mum & patron saints of obscurity

    Me and my mum have developed a small tradition over the last few years of visiting shrines and sites possibly of pagan origin, often purported to have healing properties, the more obscure the better. We both enjoy the comedy and absurdity in these stories, (I am an atheist and mum a pagan), and the way…

  • #10 Solargraphs

    I have been chatting quite a bit over the last few months to James Holcombe from no.w.here an arts organisation that specialises in experimental projects using 16mm and 8mm film. We are hoping to set up an event/project here in Knoydart for the local community and visiting artists and he mentioned these Solargraphy photographs in…

  • #9 What the locals think

    A few weeks ago I sent a letter to the local community asking for to responses to this project. This caused some confusion as I think people thought I wanted responses to the final film as opposed to the ideas and process behind it, so I sent a few questions as starting points. These included …

  • Response #8 Dad

    TRAPPED IN TIME! I don’t know where the title, STAY THE SAME, came from or why, but it seems that a condition of life is that we are limited in time and we have changed and will change. So there is something of a trap, set by yourself, that has incredible resonance and poignancy. You…

  • #7 Emma Lindley

    I am always travelling these days and what I’ve discovered is that many things, although seemingly different and far away, are essentially the same.  A plane is a plane is a plane.  An apartment, whether in London or New York, furnished or empty, is where you lay your head.  Friends on both sides of the…

  • #6 Mac’s Gate

    My friend Tommy who is the postman and ranger here on Knoydart told me a while ago about his dad Mac who has been taking pictures of the same gate every Monday for the last twenty years and Mac has kindly sent me some of his pictures. I think they are quite beautiful.