Brief story about the image

The preamble as to how the glasswork for this image and also Incommunicado was constructed, is much the same as for In the Balance. In these two images however, (this being the second of the two) I began making what looked like small bones from the glass - albeit very crude ones.

Unlike the first of the pair - Incommunicado, which stood unsupported - I could see early on that this long sprawling glasswork was never going to support itself. Again, this was the point when I would say that something important began to happen in its creation. I began to make crutch-like struts to support the glass. Then, after painting them black to look more substantial and getting the whole precarious thing to stand unsupported, it was finished. By now I knew this was going to be an image with a definite angst to it - but different altogether from Incommunicado.

Unlike Incommunicado, tortured looking and crying out to come forward and be understood, this image, equally tortured looking, seemed to be crying out for the opposite. It didn't want to voice an opinion at all, it seemed to be - A Reluctant Vocation.

Availability of image

A Reluctant Vocation is available signed/unframed in three sizes of hand-printed/hand-tinted black and white photographic print. It is individually mounted (matted) in either black or white. The mount is a quality artcard but flexible enough to be rolled for despatch. You will be able to put the work straight into a frame of the same size, or should you wish to, put a thicker conventional mount around the image area.The first dimensions are the photgraph followed by the overall dimensions of the mount.

Photo-size 1 ....250mm x 200mm (10" x 8") into 500mm x 400mm (20" x16" approx).

Photo-size 2.....400mm x 300mm (16" x 12") into 600mm x 500mm (24" x 20" approx).

Photo-size 3.....500mm x 400mm (20" x 16") into 800mm x 600mm (31.5" x 23.5" approx).

Photo-size 4 ....You can specify a bespoke size of print or style of mount.

Prices on application - dependent on size, specification and presentation.

For those interested in photography

1. The work was shot on my trusty old "Kodak of London" (circa 1920's) SPECIALIST 3 MODEL, using 5" x 4" format.
2. The lens used was an old "Wray" f203mm.
3. The film was Kodak Plus-X Pan Professional film 4147
4. Aperture set at f32, exposure time 10 secs.
5. The finished photographic prints are hand printed b/w and tinted with "Photocolor" photo dyes.