What I am noticing more and more is how right it is that we read the landscape through the eyes of the people who lived here before us.
When I started the Fangan project, I was looking at it from my viewpoint today. But while they mean something to me - now - they represent something far stronger and more important than anything I might initially know of.
This feels like a big responsibility and it has slowed my progress down. I want to do justice to the past, to treat it with the utmost respect but I am afraid I will screw it up.
Flying the drone gives a wonderful aerial perspective and applies a distance between viewer and subject, which I like. But I am realising now how precious it is to walk through the spaces and feel the stones, listen to the history, read the stories. I did just this on Sunday.
It will all take time.
