Vortex Over Wave : Daydream Academy : 9781916680005 : 1916680003 : 06 Dec 2023 : It all began in 2021 when I saw an elastic band on the ground and to me it looked like a treble clef. I photographed it, gave it the title 'Variation on a Treble Clef in Shadow', and posted it on social media. Later that year on one of my daily walks I saw a shoelace that looked like an elephant hawk moth caterpillar, and then a little further down the road an elastic band resembling the mirror image of a six which I called 'Not a Roll of the Die'. I then seemed to notice elastic bands quite often whilst out on walks, and I loved the way my snapshots could turn them into something more than discarded rubber bands. The challenge I set myself was to create the title for each photograph in the time it took to capture the image and edit it to a square photo on my phone. I loved finding the bands in places where they would not be expected, such as The Great Orme and Loggerheads Country Park. A couple o