Ryan Dodd

Digital text boxes version mock-up of zine, flick through video. 2024

Video still images xeroxed once and AI voice. 2024

00:00 Slide 1 01:54 Slide 2 04:45 Slide 3 05:56 Slide 4 06:27 Slide 5 09:21 Slide 6 12:30 Slide 7 14:03 Slide 8 15:37 Slide 9 18:03 Slide 10 21:03 Slide 11 22:54 Slide 12 23:39 Slide 13 25:12 Slide 14 27:09 Slide 15 27:59 Slide 16 29:11 Slide 17 30:54 Slide 18 

Video still images xeroxed twice and AI voice. 2024

00:00 Slide 1 01:54 Slide 2 04:45 Slide 3 05:56 Slide 4 06:27 Slide 5 09:21 Slide 6 12:30 Slide 7 14:03 Slide 8 15:37 Slide 9 18:03 Slide 10 21:03 Slide 11 22:54 Slide 12 23:39 Slide 13 25:12 Slide 14 27:09 Slide 15 27:59 Slide 16 29:11 Slide 17 30:54 Slide 18 

Naomi section of speculative fiction, narrated video stills. 2025

No Man’s Land Fort, Portsea. Raw video footage. 2025

Bird, Southsea. Raw video footage. 2025

Royal Marines, Hilsea Lines. Raw video footage. 2025

Bridge overpass, Cosham. Raw video footage. 2025

The Manor, Drayton. Raw video footage. 2025

Tree in the wind, Railway overpass, Farlington. Raw video footage. 2025

Hilsea Lines. Raw video footage. 2025

Navy ship paintings. Raw video footage. 2025

National Flags and Memorial, Farlington. Raw video footage. 2025

Walking on the Beach, Southsea. Raw video footage. 2025

Otis section, narrated with video. Sunspots Through a Blackened Windscreen. 2025

0:00 No Man’s Land Fort, Portsea. 1:01 Bird. Southsea. 1:29 National Flags and Memorial. Farlington. 3:25 Beach. Southsea. 4:42 The Manor. Drayton 

Binding type

Hardback (Thread-sewn)

A4, 297mm x 210mm

140 pages

Paper type

130gsm Gloss

Cover Finish

Wiblain Cloth with dust jacket (Gloss)

Sunspots Through a Blackened Windscreen is an image-text work that combines speculative fiction with xeroxes, montages and photographs. The dystopic setting of the novel Port City is inspired by the real world location of Portsmouth, England. Juxtaposition of images and text is designed to create a tension between the past of the city and its possible future; whilst, the images can be read metaphorically as showing what the Mark Three scanner sees. The fiction itself shifts between hard-boiled prose and bursts of lyrical expression as the characters' unexpected moments of intense feeling bubble up through the traversal of the city. 

Copyright © Ryan Dodd 2025

https://www.ryandodd.co.uk

This book is part of a PhD project at UCA 

Bound and published by ImgprintDigital

Edition of 10 copies