Finishing A Creative Thought Ten Years Later. The Resurrection of Pamplona.

This has been one of those projects that's been biting at my heels like a pissed baboon. So finally I decided to do something about it. I had the slides scanned yesterday, and printed so I could block the idea out. It helps.

I've been doing these mosaic's for some time now, the first I remember designing for the Orange County Register in 1996. It was only 3 images wide but nobody else was doing it at that paper then. I think my managing editor gave me stink eye over it. She was pretty straight, hated me.





For a few years I got into doing the solid panoramics, where I smooth out multiple images into one. But then I got back into the frantic mosaic look. I wish I could say it reflects what goes on in my mind, but it wouldn't be true. It's all pretty quiet up in the bird house.



New York, San Francisco, Seattle, others, and now the ten year-old Pamplona. I shot this from the balcony of my room, some kind of pension I think that once doubled as an office. And back then shooting a mosaic was a commitment, as I could burn through a roll of film in 30 seconds. Wasn't like this chicken sh*t digital age. You try finding slide film in the Basque.



So, anyhow, I don't know what I'll do with this, probably something different, at least beyond the flat canvass. I definitely see it hanging somewhere on a large wall.

Stay tuned.