Development: Quick update

Still playing - but conscious I should be making more concrete decisions now. Spent yesterday afternoon taking some more photocopies of flowers - had a single rose in the garden and it was rather lovely so wanted to capture it... of course I then left it on the scanner bed and completely forgot about it so not quite so lovely this morning! Wanted to situate the feet in some way so took a shot of my bath from above. Slightly tricky as my balance is terrible and the process required a steady hand. Have also been thinking of a way of tying these ideas together in order to give the whole thing a sense of purpose... Have found a poem by Edgar Allan Poe which I think might suffice...

It was many and many a year ago,

In a kingdom by the sea,

That a maiden there lived whom you may know

By the name of Annabel Lee;

And this maiden she lived with no other thought

Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,

In this kingdom by the sea;

But we loved with a love that was more than love-

I and my Annabel Lee;

With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven

Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

In this kingdom by the sea,

A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling

My beautiful Annabel Lee;

So that her highborn kinsman came

And bore her away from me,

To shut her up in a sepulchre

In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

Went envying her and me-

Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,

In this kingdom by the sea)

That the wind came out of the cloud by night,

Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love

Of those who were older than we-

Of many far wiser than we-

And neither the angels in heaven above,

Nor the demons down under the sea,

Can ever dissever my soul from the soul

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes

Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,

In the sepulchre there by the sea,

In her tomb by the sounding sea.

the sea is the bath water, the bath the tomb, the maiden - feet, love symbolised by the rose, will scoop some feathers off the lawn for the angels (our cat is ever obliging) clouds, stars etc still to decide. Wanted to incorporate text in some way so this seems an ideal way to do it - just need to decide upon the how. Anyway this is where I am ... the shadows are still troubling me and need to fine tune where the water meets the bath... work in progress I guess - watch me abandon it last minute and do something completely different!