Video - Art Projects - A Ghost at The Abbey

I have had the concept of this video in mind for a couple of years. It's the drawing together of many threads. On one hand it's a continuation of my portraits of decaying architecture started with "Derelict". It's also the first step on the road of expanding my video work away from landscapes & still life towards the inclusion of a more human element.

The idea is quite simple I had some ideas for movement and setting inspired by "Lust for a Vampire" and "Nosferatu", coupled with some software I had written to give the model a transparent/ghostly appearance. The only problems were that I had no model, and no suitable location. It started to look like this idea could reach fruition with a chance meeting with the lovely alt model "syntheticdarkness" at a Summer Solstice gathering at Avebury. Not only was she dressed in exactly the costume that I had in mind, but she also knew of a suitable location: the splendid abbey ruins at Netley. Suddenly all the parts had simply fallen into place.

Thanks so much Amy.