Jan Gray

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     a photographer..........wandering the south downs, often into abstraction

     

     

    Pett Level

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    A weird beach in East Sussex that featured in the iconic David Bowie video for 'Ashes to Ashes'.

     

    I visited Pett Level before I knew about the connection to David Bowie. The tide was out and it was a freezing cold day, my birthday, in March a few years ago. The beach was sprawling, vast and deserted with any echoes of summer long driven away by the sleet and wind of late winter.  I was intrigued and immediately drawn to the place. I later found out about the connection to Bowie in a chance conversation with a friend on Instagram and so his music was very much in my mind when I returned two years later, to make this series.

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    Time and again I tell myself

    I'll stay clean tonight

    But the little green wheels are following me
    Oh no, not again
    I'm stuck with a valuable friend
    "I'm happy, hope you're happy too"

    One flash of light but no smoking pistol

     

    [David Bowie, 'Ashes to Ashes', 1980]

     

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