The past few days I’ve been film processing. I always enjoy the process, because as each roll of film appears out of the development tank, and I put it into the stabiliser, I get a glimpse of what I shot.

Glimpses are important, rather than a steady hard look at the work. Impressions are in my book, much more powerful. It’s the lack of detail that’s important to me. When a picture is incomplete in one’s mind, then the imagination goes into overdrive imagining what is there.

It has now been a decade since I started to go to Hokkaido. It’s educational for me to go back to the very first work I created there, and to notice how things changed over time.

Today is my first day selecting and editing. I’ve literally just begun work, and this is the first edit I’ve made.

I’m well aware that as my editing session goes on, things change, and I may come back and re-edit this one. Or, it may not even make the final selection.

I give myself permission to be freeform for the first while, to see what surfaces, to see if a theme emerges. I’ve got to do this, to allow what is there, a chance to surface, and to show me what it is.