This project, a fractured narrative comprising twelve composite ‘findings’ with varying numbers of images, felt very much like composing songs for an album, using particular recording strategies to underpin its sensibility. Writing the accompanying text seemed similar to the production of song lyrics albeit briefer and somewhat more enigmatic. As in songwriting, sometimes the words would come first.

The camera used was the legendary Polaroid SX70 which lends the images a dream-like quality – a certain, ‘lightness of being’, almost regardless of image content. This is due to the SX70 allowing control of both focus and exposure. Again, the notion of the integration of opposites plays its part via explorations of relationships, time, life, death.

Findings… Bitter-Sweet was revisited in 1998, becoming a slow-dissolve photo animation with a solo guitar soundtrack.