The Polaroid is a good tool of documentation, reducing this product to a digital media adds a layered aspect to the images. I felt it was important for me to return to the idea of the map as the initial place I discovered the places associated with my surname and therefore made me determined to associate myself with this place in a completely arbitrary way. It almost becomes unimportant the fact the second photograph in unfocused and the exact the location appears to be almost hidden, a fact that it is up to myself to establish something about/in the town rather then mere documentation.
I had felt up to this point that I had allowed myself to become overwhelmed with the numerous possiblities of what could do within this project; it isn't a fact or to the best of my knowledge any members of my family came from this area but perhaps this is where my surname originated? A person's surname is indicative to their own identity and gives a sense of belonging to something outside of themselves, without this sounding too contrived.
It is now about moving forwards and creating a respectable body of work. A mass production of work then look at how they relate, the core of this project is in respects a 'joke', a self referential one and it is important to acknowledge and let it feed into my work rather then take myself too seriously.
Ideas:
- Work with an architect to redesign town
- Engage with town / embed myself there
- Let Wenham reshape me, stay there emerse myself there (Join Women's Institute ?)
- Imagining of the place without actually going there
- Tours of the place (gathered information from secondary sources 'Fake' Tours)
- Tours relating to the history of the place (Pyschogeography)
- Audio Tours (Janet Cardiff)
- What does it mean to travel the 2 hours to have the same conversation with the same person (i.e local butcher/baker/paperboy etc) on the same day each week to make them think you are local?
- Robert Smithson ' Spiral Jetty' and one artists re-discovering of Spiral Jetty
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