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More Than This (Explore)
'More Than This' Roxy Music
'It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this, you know there is nothing
More than this, tell me one thing
More than this, you know there is nothing'
Our lives appear to us an an open ended movie, like a dream in the night, we can never know where we are going, or so it feels. Yet all around us we see determinism, the sea on the tide has no way of turning, Spinoza and deterministic pantheism seemingly in action.
In making the picture I hoped the foreground image would create a 'wide-screen movie' effect to show watching a part of life as a film, a brief interruption of the constant shown by the background. The prints have faded and discoloured with age, something that I decided to leave since it seemed to fit with the theme.
The pictures were taken during a family holiday. It was a beautiful morning and even though it was early the sun was warm on my face. Everything felt good with the world, a day travelling behind Class 50s beckoned!
The image is a composite of two pictures taken within a few minutes of each other at Teignmouth in August 1985. The background image is the view from Spray Point looking out over the sun sparkling on the sea, whilst the second shows a Class 50 locomotive hauling the 07:50 Exeter St. David's to Paignton local train along the famous sea wall.
More Than This (Explore)
'More Than This' Roxy Music
'It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going
No care in the world
Maybe I'm learning
Why the sea on the tide
Has no way of turning
More than this, you know there is nothing
More than this, tell me one thing
More than this, you know there is nothing'
Our lives appear to us an an open ended movie, like a dream in the night, we can never know where we are going, or so it feels. Yet all around us we see determinism, the sea on the tide has no way of turning, Spinoza and deterministic pantheism seemingly in action.
In making the picture I hoped the foreground image would create a 'wide-screen movie' effect to show watching a part of life as a film, a brief interruption of the constant shown by the background. The prints have faded and discoloured with age, something that I decided to leave since it seemed to fit with the theme.
The pictures were taken during a family holiday. It was a beautiful morning and even though it was early the sun was warm on my face. Everything felt good with the world, a day travelling behind Class 50s beckoned!
The image is a composite of two pictures taken within a few minutes of each other at Teignmouth in August 1985. The background image is the view from Spray Point looking out over the sun sparkling on the sea, whilst the second shows a Class 50 locomotive hauling the 07:50 Exeter St. David's to Paignton local train along the famous sea wall.