Stirring the pot…
It’s been a little while since I last wrote to you here, a really long while.
Spring and summer have been and gone and we’re well into the autumn now. I marked the end of the summer with a little bike ride following the stones from the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire to Stonehenge for the equinox. That’s a story I’ll tell another day, so many more things have happened between now and when I last wrote here.
Before the summer I was a little lost and feeling stagnant, so without much planning but with a strong desire for change, to stir up the pot and relight the fire, I found some work on a campsite in the mountains of North Wales. I worked a lot, exploring throughout the rocky landscape whenever I had time, going new places, meeting new people and getting to know this part of the world a whole lot better.
This was the change I really needed and got me back working on the things I should have finished a good while ago. The biggest of these is the photobook I set out to make from last year’s trip to Fontainebleau, as I write this it is at the printers getting made. That really puts a smile on my face that it's almost out there in the world, it’s certainly the best book I’ve made so far. We’ll never know but maybe the roadblock working on it was really what it needed.
Right now deep in the autumn with the winter about to start knocking hard at the door I’m still up in the mountains. I’ve moved out of the van that I was in for the summer and into a house with some other climbers. We'll see what adventures come before the end of the year and how long I’ll be up here before heading somewhere new. Right now it’s a good place to bury myself in all these projects and ideas that I have swirling around in my head, I have some cool things coming along with the book, I’ve been nestled behind the sewing machine seeing what I can create, plotting and planning bike routes and as always have a good stock of film ready to go in my camera.
I’ll be in touch again soon.
Jacob.
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