I went back to the trains with a more developed shooting technique, allowing me to achieve much better footage, which in turn I hoped would produce stronger images and videos.
Here I have some images, not all are quite the correct dimensions, but I can iron out the creases at a later point. For me, looking at these images was merely a ‘preview’ of the videos which I could then generate. (A still takes around 10 minutes to produce, a video takes over an hour)
I am happy with what I have accomplished here, each image shows the entire time span in which the train was visible in front of the camera, plus a few extra seconds before and after. The train however, appears to be stationary – it is not – it is moving. The images embody everything that I wanted to capture in the work, they distort time and space, and show our limitations of counting time as space. Duration here, does exist, but we do not realise it, because we are not trained to see it. I will process the videos and begin to finalize my work from this, looking back over the theory I have read to help understand the key themes in my work and explain them in the language that is used by theorists.