We live in an age of information overload.
We are continually bombarded with advertising extolling the dubious virtues of some unnecessary product.
Ceaselessly our senses are battered by loud erratically moving images.
Every magazine advert is a study in layered meaning and seemingly chaotic layout. Whatever happened to the simple well shot composed and lit discrete advert?
Youtube now has up to four adverts "scrolling" across their visual content.
It was a great pleasure to discover the musical compositions of Paul Collier. (www.PaulFromStokeUK.com). Their quietness belies their complexity, but above all are imminently listernerable.
As artists we must be in touch with the age in which we live and draw our inspiration literally from the air that we breathe. We seem to have lost the "zen of now", and too hurriedly snap the shutter before thinking about and absorbing the scene before us. It is only when we engage all of our senses that we can truly create and capture that essence of the scene before us.
As Simon and Garfunkel sang:"slow down you move too fast....."