I also need to take more images to really hone where it is I'm headed with the work. This has evolved into using defocused images but I am still working on my technique so I decided the strongest path forward would be simply to experiment further and really start to explore the possibilities of this technique.
These images are beginning to blur the boundaries of the photographic medium. - they are almost becoming more painterly in quality than photographic. Some are also starting to reference abstract painting, however, this is not the direction I want to take my work.
The skyline images are my favourites. They feel like hazy memories and there's definitely a romantic, perhaps almost nostalgic quality about them. However, I think I need to push the work further than this, as that kind of feeling from an image, although I am keen on them, doesn't necessarily achieve much depth. There's also something about the car sequence that I feel appealing - perhaps I could create a whole collection? But I am just not sure why I feel the need to do that. I think it's probably that the cars used look like the could be from a past time - I would naturally guess the seventies as they remind me of photographs my parents have showed me of their cars. So although I am drawn to these images, I do not feel there is enough scope for me to take them forwards - I like them on a personal level, but they are not achieving what I want to achieve, which is a more provocative, intense form of image.
