I've been walking around in circles in Coventry and Kenilworth, occasionally shooting video, wondering about the place and thinking about the Richard Long photographs that I saw recently.

I would like to post some of short videos I've taken on this blog but might have to post somewhere else and link to here.

While walking with the video camera I am trying to create a balance between absorbing the place with all of my body and senses, not just the lens. This leaves my camera work a bit messy and haphazard but I like this. The situation of filming while walking and enjoying the place dominates what is being recorded. For example, I was filming from underneath a tree up into the branches and had the desire to spin and watch the leaves revolve so I did. Other bits of video follow the rhythm of me walking or the rise and fall of my breath as I lie on a bench and stare up at the clouds.

In one place I wanted to move rather than shoot video. It was a sort of pedestrian underpass in Kenilworth that leads into a large park. The underpass is a beautiful structure with amazing high pitched echoes but the dark and wet keep people scurrying through. I sat on the edge for a while and watched people being unsure of my odd choice to remain. I wanted to create an even odder situation: lie down where the arch meets the ground and have only my feet stick out into the park.