The cover image for the first issue of my new photography zine Sweyne's Eye.
Sweyne's Eye ~ Hand ̶i̶n̶ Glove (1)
To celebrate the publication of my first photo-book, Sweyne's Eye ~ Hand ̶i̶n̶ Glove, I will be sharing some of my images from the new zine here on Pixie-Led.
Sweyne’s Eye is my new Swansea zine, which is designed to act as a window to my various photographic projects exploring my local neighbourhood.
I have devoted the inaugural issue of this new zine to a series of images I captured back in 2015. That year, encouraged by my recent purchase of an activity tracker (Fitbit) and my involvement in a location-based augmented-reality game (Ingress), I found myself actively pounding the streets of Swansea. as I chased an ever-increasing step-count. During my perambulations, I was shocked at just how much clothing I saw discarded around the city. Curious at the sheer scale of their number and the diversity of the abandoned items, I took to photographing the forsaken clothing, collecting hundreds of images of them throughout the year.
As I continued the photographic project, however, one particular item of clothing began to particularly intrigue me, and I started concentrating my image-making solely on the dropped gloves I happened upon during my walks. The gloves appeared forlorn and disquieting in the landscape and suggested moods and concepts richer than those connoted by the other dishevelled clothing I had photographed.
Sweyne's Eye ~ Hand ̶i̶n̶ Glove collects for your perusal 60 photographs of deserted, stray and feral gloves, all photographed throughout 2015 in and around the City of Swansea. The zine also includes a few of the early images I took for the series, including shots of trainers hanging from street telephone wires and a jester's hat washed up on Swansea Bay. I hope you enjoy and help support my new project. And I look forward to sharing further images with you in the second issue of this new Swansea zine very soon...
Anyway, here is the first image I would like to share here from the book. Look out for some more over the next few days...
Anyway, here is the first image I would like to share here from the book. Look out for some more over the next few days...
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| Image taken from the new zine Sweyne's Eye ~ Hand ̶i̶n̶ Glove |
Kombucha Bottling
Our first batch of Kombucha has now completed its first fermentation process and is now bottled up. We have a few flavours brewing here too amongst the plain original kombucha, namely Raspberry and Ginger/Lemon :)
Our next fresh batch of kombucha has also now been started...
A Sleepy Distraction
It is difficult concentrating on the editing of my first photo-book zine with this one in the background. She can draw my attention even when she is fast asleep :)
Fermenting Kombucha
Following up from last week's post, here is the latest photograph of our kombucha. As you can see from all the bubbles, it is fizzing away nicely as it continues to ferment:
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| Fermenting kombucha |
Sweyne's Eye 1...
I started work this morning on the design of my first photobook zine - Sweyne's Eye, the first issue of which will feature a little project entitled: Hand i̶n̶ Glove.
More details soon...
Excited Sparrows on a Windy Afternoon
Our little feathered garden friends are loving our new bird feeder. The sparrows especially can't contain their excitement and their constant twittering can be heard from our house even in the rain and wind :)
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