WIND DRAWINGS

Conceptulising what the wind might look like and embody, I could not ignore the evidence that was phyiscally around us. That is the affect of the wind’s influence on the physical world. We know of the wind’s presence by the feel of it across our bodies. The indiscriminate odours it brings. The sound as it roars through trees, even hearing distant sounds caried on the wind as its direction alters. In many ways we are already fully equipped to start to visualise the invisable without having any visual reference. The most obvious evidence of the wind’s visual presense is the influence it has on the movement of trees, fauna, flora, clouds and other inert objects. This was an area of study which has often captivated me, watching a tree sway backwards and fourth, sometimes the movement can be so erratic that making sense of the wind’s exact direction difficult. Beyond the use of photography, recording this movement into something physical that you can observe, study and retain is actually quite a fascinating challenge. Inherently everything that you do to try and record the motion of an object, then encumbers and alters the mechanics and therefore the object’s movement. I was interested in developing some apparatus that would mimic the natural movement of a blade of grass or tree, for instance.