windy.

The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneous than that.

I decided to go against what felt right. Out of all the images we were offered, I decided to purposefully choose the one that I liked visually but knew would have trouble conceptualising.

The other images were very packed with almost explosive visual sounds but A Sudden Gust of Wind really spoke to me in its style - faint, blush, pastel colours, the idea of a painted event becoming reality, the film-likeness of it, the seeming possibility of a single person being in multiple places, thereby creating a movement within a still. I could imagine the quiet breeze and softness of sound it could bring. It was a contrast to the intensity of the other paintings.

Ejiri in Suruga Province was one of Katsushika Hokusai's Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.

I like the thought behind Jeff Wall's image. It's a recreation, it's a beautiful serendipity but it's fully staged. It's sort of like a copy. It was a real moment turned into a drawing that then got recreated and frozen in time through an image. 

First notes:

sounds of paper,

whistle and chimes moving in wind, 

river and flow of water

To me wind and rain are escape, paper is creation and water is meditation. 

Recently I watched Jim Jarmusch's Paterson. It's a film about a bus driver who is also a poet. He starts his day writing, then listens to people chat on the bus, and then at lunch he goes to his favourite place - a waterfall - and keeps writing. 

For some reason that's exactly what I envision in this photograph. A journey in writing, if that makes sense. I realise it might be a strange approach but I've created a story that I want to create the soundscape for. I know what I want visually, so now I need to produce that within sound.