Timothy Sawyer Shepard, A Psychogeographic walk in the footsteps of Benjamin Britten
Music has been a consistent aspect of my art practice - and has appeared through works for musicians (Paul Weller, Kevin Ayers etc) and the music compositions I make myself which meticulously combine numerous music fragments sampled from hundreds of old 78’s and junk store records.
From hundreds of photographs taken whilst walking the Sailor’s Path, over 600 elements have been cut and orchestrated to form a single scene recalling the landscape which informed so much of the music of Benjamin Britten through his ‘composing walks’ and which in turn combined with my own impressions and memories of the landscape through playing Lp’s of Turn of the Screw and Peter Grimmes quite continuously in my studio whilst working on this piece.
Artists Proof. Archive ink printed on Dai-oban sized sheet of Ichibei Iwano washi paper
42 x 30.5cm
Framed
2024
Timothy Sawyer Shepard takes hundreds of photographs and combines them in a memory collage to create a familiar yet fictitious scene, as you see here taken on one of Benjamin Britten’s favourite walks.
