On A Cloud What a sublime place to be ... on a cloud. It’s quite true to say that I’m more often tree-like and solid; feet fastened to the ground. Wisp-like and plucked from a growing collection of many hundreds of cloud images are these clouds three. I’m sharing with you my transition upward into a dreamlike world. Clouds have been a place for me to leave my overactive thoughts, at a time when I needed space to heal ... from a personal and tumultuous storm. (If you have a closer look, you may see some of them still there ...) In my more grounded work, I specialize in a collaborative community development process that brings together community photo projects and story-telling. This style of photo-narrative, which I call ‘Focus on Community’, is a portrait-based methodology, featuring images taken by participants and produced into booklets that enable communities also to heal through their shared stories. In making clouds home to my own stories and healing, I’ve found a greater clarity and focus, thus beginning again to produce new collections work, often large and recently shown at Fed Square. I’ve also exhibited atop Maldon’s Mt Tarrengower, near where I live, from where many of my cloud pictures have been captured, and the place at which I continue to upload my superfluous thoughts, and let them float away.
Deanna Neville