The picture below of roadside vegetation in Waitpinga on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula was an attempt to ensure that the process of making a photos with the 8x10 Cambo monorail was successful. I wanted to nail it down in light of all the issues I'd been having -- with the shutter, the limited lens coverage, vignetting from bellows yaw, poor development of the film and Newton rings when scanning.
My experience was one of a continual series of flaws that got in the way of trying to do something with the 8x10 style of photography. Since nothing was working properly I wanted to sort out the dam problems I was experiencing by getting the technique under control. In desperation I simplified everything down so that I could make a picture that wasn't deeply flawed. It's a bit like being in a workshop or a construction site with being a mechanic.
Hence this representation of a tree in the roadside vegetation in my local neighbourhood:
I wanted to get things working right so that I could start to shift my photography away from a reflection of what exists towards a photography that would start to stimulate us to reconfigure our interaction with the world; to try and develop a photography that leads to new sensations and stimulates new ways of seeing and being.