I had to go into UCS today for a meeting so I took advantage of the vast and empty Fusion Lab to lay out 75 printed medium format images from the last edit of the series. This time last year Lux Locus were busy preparing to hang a pre-degree show exhibition in Ipswich Town Hall and the lab was buzzing despite the Easter break.

I came out with 48 images. Not bad for a first slice through the deck.

Now I can begin to work out in scale just how many more will need to be culled to make good use of the exhibition space. The ‘BIG 5’ printed by Metro and framed by Lamden will be going on the wall and the space is there for them but I need to do the same with the new large format work as with the medium format and print out and lay out the work to see what has to be removed.
Printing hard copy and seeing them physically laid out is very much like editing down for a book. This cannot be done on screen.
As soon as the work went on the bench, patterns tensions and collaborations jumped out at me. Obviously the non-fitters did also and that is not to say they were bad images. After all they had made it into the editing gallery. It was more a case of working with the other images or not.
How these will look when I mock up the galleries is anyone’s guess and I already know from hanging several exhibitions whilst a student at UCS that when the work goes on the wall the mood of the hang can alter so I have to be capable and flexible enough to cope with that when it happens.
At least it is a start. It is a mix of original and extended series images.
The show opens in July but the logistics of final printing and framing dictate a heavy month of editing ahead.
The medium format gallery has the latest reduced images within it.
More to come.