I feel that I have had long enough trying to get some perspective on my film. I ran into a theoretical wall that I need a few journals to help me get a few thought holds to help me scale but I will tackle that in another post.

Today we took a family visit to Jodrell Bank and the Lovell Telescope, I have previously mentioned that my love of space science and exploration is to some degree shared by my family. So we went and ticked something else of my bucket list, I have wanted to go to Jodrell Bank and see the telescope ever since I was a child. It wasn’t just the science but also the pop culture references, mainly Dr Who when I was younger and later Joy Division, that drew my attention.

I knew that I was going to write something about the visit because the subject is closely aligned with that of the starting point for my film. The imagery displayed around the site, is the imagery that inspired my experiments with fluids and fish tanks.

After the initial marvelling at the size of it, and the joy at being there (I really like space), I was struck by how much it looked like an eye. I felt like I was treading ground that I had covered before, this is a mechanical eye, it can see what and where we can’t, not only individually but globally we are augmenting ourselves with senses that reach beyond our biological limitations.