Well, this season’s inspiration has been pretty varied.
I re-read ‘Lolita’ by Vladimir Knabakov which led me down a few different routes. I have every David Lynch movie ever made but I kept wanting to watch the futuristic, Dune. Being placed firmly in the future but using significant period elements appeals to me every season, where past and present double back on itself like a labyrinth. This led me to Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream’ and all it’s surreal references.
The darkness of nature. The bleakness of beauty.
Alienating effects of new technologies were Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, where human feelings are displaced onto objects and people live out their relations via the commodity form rather than directly, continues to fascinate me. Displacement and abandonment.
I have found a great location for my shoot in Belgravia, London
