Is there an English setting more elusive, or intoxicating than the West Country?
This enriched land was never meant to be a fleeting experience. It demands surrender… inhaled like a nerve agent, the end of the line.
The land itself is not the subject, it’s about what's possible… the untapped, unseen, and yet-to-be - An entire region driven mad by potential.
With four thousand years of human endurance buried beneath us, this volatile condition detonates a bewitching toll… thumping like a broken heart, rallying the lawless for another night on the cobbles. It cannot be tamed - It won’t be silenced. For centuries it anticipates a stampede of dreamers, drunk on the scent of freedom, chasing a wild & unrestrained existence… for any reason to belong. A truly breath-taking disturbance.
The cameras stand witness, but serve as an excuse for orchestrating such convergences - Cultivating memory, suspended in perpetual motion, everything in the steps of the ancestors. They justify an endless exchange of effort & intimacy - a melting pot of performance, passion, revelry, ritual, and human connection.
I love it when the dancing swirls, the colors burst and the laughter howls - when the food and wine flows and the land flourishes and thrills beneath a smoky sun. I love it when all of these things come together like a dream… when visitors notice my cameras in the distance and realise they are part of an artistic work… and in a leap of faith, they rise to the occasion.