Shepard walks with a camera, using it to document the various elements that combine to create what one sees of a place. He captures quick shots of whatever draws his eye. Later, many hundreds of these photographed elements are carefully cut out in Photoshop and meticulously recombined and re-contextualised to create a multi-temporal and multi-faceted singular image that expresses the memory of his wandering - a re-arranging of actuality with artistry, cultural resonance, impressions, perceptions, and imagination. He refers to this as an ‘omni-jective’ plural view of memory.
 

Shepard has been working with Japanese master printer Mitsuhiro Matsudaira of Atelier Matsudaira in Tokyo to make the prints for this exhibition. They used dai ōban-sized sheets (30.5 x 42 cm) of Japanese washi, made by the ninth-generation artisan and Ningen Kokuhō ("Living National Treasure”), Ichibei Iwano. The Iwano dynasty’s washi has been valued by Japanese artists for centuries and was used by notable Ukiyo-e landscape artists of the Edo era, such as Hiroshige and Hokusai. Aside from a limited supply made available to the Louvre for their restoration work, it is nearly impossible to obtain Iwano washi outside of Japan, where there is typically a waiting list of about a year before some sheets can be purchased. 

Visitors to The Aldeburgh Beach Lookout are usually out for a good walk. The artist aims for this exhibition to inspire visitors to reflect on and experience a creative harmony of their inner and outer selves during their wanderings. The goal is for their walk to become an artistic expression - a source of material to be drawn together as a landscape of memory within which to dream. 
 

When one falls asleep, having gathered the material of the day, one tears it up and recombines it, and dreams by one’s own light. In doing so, one becomes Creator.
The Upanishads.