Making Visible: The book/ photo project

I see the book project as an extension of the drawing project. An archiving. An uncovering. A backwards journey, into the bits and pieces that until now I had not given meaning. How to bring things together to give meaning, but not insert any preconceived idea/ meaning. Lest only what is there be said. Perhaps find out a little more about yourself?

Framed with the design of a moving cartographic imagination, I believe from working through this project and from feedback, I managed to touch on the lived space of the subjects (myself and those who's paths I have crossed) I use the term coined by Giuliana Bruno in 'ATLAS of Emotions' - psychogeography -  or a living map. Fashioning my inner subjectivity the map/ book I have created seeks to create an intertextual life. 

It is key to me that what is left is a map that will also be different for different readers who may notice, fashion and piece together different aspects of the words and imagery, with a narrative impulse may depict a space in which the subject inhabits.

Furthering my practice:

I feel that in one way or another I am relieved to move on. This was an overwhelming and emotional project. Which is surprising because it is only snippets of experience and life lived but I feel that somehow it reached out and triggered memories of friends and cities and about migrations and the dangers faced by people I know. It also measures failure while measuring the mysteries of a girl moving. Why am I able to move so freely and why am I making art out of it? Anxiety levels are high. And the hashimoto’s disease seems to be asking me why I am so disembodied. I have work to do. My classmates are pleased with my creation, they speak of mysteries and uncharted maps. Maybe this is it? Maybe this is a place uncharted? So I’m in fact entering new connections and new pathways through the very connections I have made here with the material.

A palm tree I made out of shells when I was really really tired on Margate beach is mixed with images I had literally drawn while in Siwa… a place so so far into the desert where a hot water spring appears. 

I love creating but it is so taxing.

Moving on it is now time to branch out and to take risks. To do research, to work WITH others. To log and dialogue stories and voices. I turn back to film and voice.