PEREGRINATION

Peregrination is an old word for a journey on foot. I suspect it comes originally from the French word pèlerinage meaning pilgrimage.

Originally conceived as a board game in the spirit of the old Snakes and Ladders, popular when I was a child, the building was inspired in part by Gormenghast castle in Mervyn Peake’s Titus trilogy.

Despite first glance appearances the pathways in this building are a single horizontal plane. You can trace a path from any point on the pathway to any other point on the pathway without using a stair or other change of ‘level’.  There are no less than twenty two false links which treat this single plane as different levels ...... stairs and ladders which serve only to join the same level to itself.

This is one of the most complex of all my images. It was made over the course of five months. Two months of planning and photography and three months of compositing. Over six hundred purpose taken photographs were used for the making of this image. It was made over twenty years ago and was too large for my computer at that time to handle easily and had to be created in segments which were then assembled to create the final image.