The patterns of light as it moves through time and place reveal another side to nature. The places where we have been, the footprints of our existence that we leave are shown, brief glimpses of our interaction through our systems, our processes, our lives. The journey starts with hope, a brave new world with its structure and bold design. Bright, clean, optimistic. But time erodes, and hope fades as familiarity envelopes us. We see the decay, both physical and spiritual through dust and dereliction. But salvation awaits. Or does it? We trust in something bigger but intangible. And we return, sometime to the beginning. To a place of nostalgia, of reflection but also melancholy. The journey, cyclical, begins again, the spiral of our lives ever playing out, generation after generation seeking the same answers, with the same hope and fears, with the same sense of loss at the end of the day.

Ellipsis won the jury prize for the 'On the Edge' competition at the 10th Cornwall Film Festival, November, 2011.
Shortlisted for the Royal Academy 2012 Summer Show.

Further information on the stills:
Boats: Taken at Raynham Marshes, October 2010. The concrete barges once formed a protective barrier across the Thames in WW2. At the end of the war they were dragged to their current resting place.
Docks: View from underneath the cranes at DP World, Southampton, April 2011.
Gallery: A section of the City of Arts and Sciences Valencia, Spain, November 2010. Building designed by Santiago Calatrava.
House01: Hollywood Lodge, September 2010. The decaying remains of this once grand 18th century house turned asylum sits in a field of horses. Fire and the elements slowly reducing it to rubble.
Ladder: The former Pilot warehouse near Winchester, Hampshire, April 2011.
Street: Rush hour in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento, Valencia, November 2010.
Walls: Decay inside the former Pilot warehouse near Winchester, Hampshire, April 2011.

• http://vimeo.com/25619503
• http://www.cornwallfilmfestival.com/edge...
• http://cornwallfilmfestival.com/