Lee Stitt- "Grey Matter"

Lee Stitt's 'Grey Matter' focuses on how music stimulates and creates feelings through a musical response. He would walk around the woodlands of an evening and night time and listen to a song on repeat. It began to become an almost ritual for him and began reminiscing over his thoughts due to the fact his father was very ill at the time. It allowed for him to have a distraction within the woodlands with very little interruptions. 

His work began to be featured around more of an emotional escape rather than about image making. Stitt started getting lost in the darkness of the woodlands and not physically but mentally as well. Later down the line his father died and then the song he listened to around the woodlands began bringing back a whole array of emotions in which were not only negative but positive about his father and the time they spent together. The darkness around the woodlands began to become his canvas to imagine all the times they spent together.

For me Lee's work is so perfect i almost think it is a video as to how still the environment is. By having the photos in black and white your eyes are more focused on the structures and textures of the trees, bushes and other specific parts of the woodlands without focusing on the colours. The branches dart in all directions over the image as if they were dancing to the music Lee was listening to on his shoots. Due to the dense leaves, trees and branches you cannot view the background and makes you begin to question and wonder what lies behind the trees.

In conclusion, i find that Grey Matter relates a lot to my own work due to the fact that Lee responded to a woodlands in his own way and it reminded him of his dad and the memories they had. And for me the woodlands allows me to escape my reality and dream of anything i want. We all respond to it differently whether that is bad or good but Grey Matter shows that even in some of the most secluded places nothing is impossible and the untouched nature of this place is a calming element for many viewers. It also attracts your attention to a variety of different parts of the image as you move up and down and across the various branches becoming more curious as to what lies in the darkness.