Towards Mulehouse Road, 3 December 2023

Seeing a bit of snow on the ground encouraged me to take some pictures after a period of inactivity because it makes familiar places look and seem new.

Not only does the snow make familiar places look and seem new but it also helps to make them feel new because it takes more effort to walk on snowy ground, which impacts on the speed of the journey, and this difference in speed impacts on the overall perception of detail.

There’s a rarely seen video which was made to accompany a track from a rarely heard album called ‘Planetary Mess’, which consists of the film maker walking slowly up and down this little passage in darkness.

You wouldn’t recognise it as the same place, even if you did manage to access what is a generally inaccessible film.

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