Fleur Alston

Blood Point, the tenth image. This border is made up of a viking pattern made of stone specimens, a swans eye, human eye, snake in a jar (from the Horniman) a swans feather, sheep`s teeth, a Saxon amulet, a Saxon arrow head, a snake skin from London zoo and  loads of Saxon beads (I may have gone a little over the top with the beads but they are so beautiful, I feel there maybe a page devoted to…

I forgot to write about Deadmans Point. There is supposedly a Roman Burial ground here so the border is heavily Roman. There is a mosaic pattern border, a Roman scallop shell brooch , a fish eye, a human eye, a coin which would have been left on the deceased eyes and a shell moulding from a tomb. There are also Roman grave goods, a silver spoon, game counters and a glass bottle. I quite like the…

    This page is quite colourful. It is about a burial ground so I have surrounded it with flowers, plastic and silk flowers left on memorial benches in Minster, a dying bouquet of real flowers and a Lilly paper scrap. There is also a taxidermy cats eye, a human glass eye, three dead bees (bees were often depicted in art history to remind the onlooker of their own mortality), lichens on branches,…

Page 8 Lucifers Bridge

Awaiting Twilight Upon Lucifer Bridge Slowly the river flowss Steadily moving forwards Towards unknown destinations And expectations. Fish of Dagon cause ripples Which induce disturbances Like those of my mind As I first look up stream And then down. Lush green trees swoop like the curve Of Angel’s wings Down to the water’s surface Sometimes breaking the stillness Of the moment. Bird song and cry…

Deadmans Bay Page 6

Mothers day involved visiting Canvey Island. It was cold, more snow forecast and I was sure it was going to be uninspiring and built up. I wanted to document Deadmans Bay known today as Thorny Bay (for obvious reasons who wants to go on a day trip to a beach called Deadmans bay) and Deadmans Point. Strangely Thorny bay is also known by locals as `Saint Nowhere` but I could not find any origins…

Bedlams Bottom Page 5

“Bedlam was bedlam. A muffled eerie place of confusion and strange forbidding heavy suspicion, underscored with lines of Thames barges rotting in the green murky ooze. There were policemen, game wardens and irate dog walkers (who all shouted at us). It is a place I never want to return to. There were dead things everywhere, I mean everywhere, ripped up and mutilated, not just dead. This shoot was…

  “The estuaries of rivers appeal strongly to an adventurous imagination. This appeal is not always a charm, for there are estuaries of a particularly dispiriting ugliness: lowlands, mudflats, or perhaps barren sandhills without beauty of form or amenity of aspect, covered with a shabby and scanty vegetation conveying the impression of poverty and uselessness. Sometimes such an ugliness is merely…

It was hard to pin point Slaughterhouse Point from the many marshy islands and inlets but I think I managed to point my camera in the right direction in the end. It is sometimes difficult finding an interesting image while documenting a place. The landscape I found myself in was strange and beautiful in its own way but not necessarily easy to translate in a picture. The use of long exposure…

  `The marshes were just a long black horizontal line then, as I stopped to look after him; and the river was just another horizontal line, not nearly so broad nor yet so black; and the sky was just a row of long angry red lines and dense black lines intermixed. On the edge of the river I could faintly make out the only two black things in all the prospect that seemed to be standing upright; one…

  I have started a new, very long term, project! It involves a series I did 4 years ago called Namesake. I am hopefully going to compile a book of reworked images from the series including some of the text I wrote as I documented taking the pictures. This is page 1 Deadmans Islands “It all started when experimenting with daylight long exposures, I could`nt afford an ND filter of a high enough…

Struggling to know what to do. This is my newest work for my series Wunderkammen. It is a shell extravanganza all collected from various natural history museums. There are model fish, taxidermy fish and fish found washed up on a beach, swimming through a coloured glass and  tin foil (found on a beach) seahorse laden sea. Taxerdermy fish eyes and a fabulous star fish filled sky all tussle around…

This is the first piece in a new series called Wunderkammer, the original word for the curiosity cabinet. I have so many images and objects that I have collected over time that constructing my own 2d cabinet seems an obvious direction to take. Each piece will be boxed framed with no mount and of various sizes. This work is based on a Persian carpet design and is therefore wibbly wobbly and not…

  Happy Christmas everyone. Here is my festive offering. This little robin was brought to me in the mouth of my cat, at first I thought he had killed it but on closer inspection the robin was very stiff and had probably been dead for awhile. So I am hoping he lay down to rest and passed away. I cried quite a lot over this little robin, he used to sit next to me when I gardened and ate the worms…