The photographs in this sequence were made during 1999 and 2000. They all have as their object a single weirpool, and were all taken at the same time of day (roughly 12:30 pm), with the same camera and lens from one of three possible viewpoints, each roughly ten feet above the water's surface.

To produce an earlier sequence (Curriculum, which may be viewed at: www.soton.ac.uk/~mic/Curr) I walked daily along the stream flowing through the campus of the University of Southampton. This stream has two personalities: a landscaped channel, modelled by Spence in the sixties to run through the heart of a new campus, and the remnant of the original "natural" channel which flowed through the brickworks which preceded the University on the site. This weirpool, pentagonal in shape, marks the point where the landscaped stream reappears from a conduit beneath the Student Union gym, pools its strength and is restored to its original channel, which flows on through the Botanical Garden. The level of water in the pool and its strength of flow depend on the time of year, and the recent weather. Large quantities of natural debris can build up over the year, and an "island" of leaves, twigs and weed emerges as the water level falls; this is periodically dredged out by the groundsmen. Other objects find their way into the pool, too, ranging from cans and bottles to laboratory trolleys.

I have constructed the sequence around "rhyming triplets" of images taken from the same viewpoint. Sometimes the images in a triplet were taken months apart, sometimes only seconds apart. Aside from the pool itself and its transient contents, the main structural elements reflected in the water are the railings, the 30 ft. brick wall of an adjacent building, the sky, and the shadow of a 20 ft. triangular conifer in the Botanical Garden. Despite appearances, none of the images is a composite, and there has been no digital manipulation of the images.

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