Back to Uni Madness

The whole of yesterday's session went totally over my head, there was so much information. It has left me feeling really stressed. I can't believe how far along with the project we are supposed to be by comparison to where I am with it. I thought that we had three weeks to complete the book but it turns out we have just over one.

I spent quite a lot of time in the holidays drawing the canal with a focus on my theme of liminal spaces (trying to paint ghostly figures and experimenting with media). But in actual fact i think that I have done everything the wrong way round. What I should really have been focusing on was doing more research and trying to develop a narrative.

My Game Plan (for the next three days):

• Look back at and reflect upon group crit
• Blog about created images - what works and what doesn't.
• Think about the focus of the book. Is there some way I can bring the collected ephemera and the places where I found them together through a narrative? Do I need to focus on just one or the other?
• Read back through the interviews. Are there any quotes that I can pick out and tie into my narrative?
• Maybe go down to the canal and pick up more objects?
• Look at illustrators who look at the themes of presence of absence, liminal spaces and who use objects in their work - Cornelia Parker?
• Maybe research more into the remnants of people/ things to suggest their presence in absence and abandoned objects.
• Think about what kind of mood I want to convey in my book. Do I want it to be quite heavy or just lightly challenging to this idea of an idilic city canal.

• Once honed in on ideas start storyboarding potential narratives - three
• Continue with media and image experimentation (don't get carried away trying to make them look perfect - QUICK! QUICK! QUICK!) Hopefully this will result in some samples I can present in my tutorial.