Video and written feedback with my tutor. 3rd December 2024

Overall comments
Overview- River SB experiments and map drawings. Supported with factual
information and visuals of maps of the flooding and aftermath.

We decided a critical review was the most appropriate choice as it will capture the information and data of the subject. It will allow for more qualitative research, perhaps case studies, interviews. This could be a
practical approach. The individuality comes from working with the debris, residues, detritus of what is washed up or found on the banks of the river. Use your lived experiences of the floods. Think about your loss and healing processes, your anger at authorities, your knowledge of the logistics. Also, the blocking of information. Does the terrain then become political?

Don’t dismiss your bodily connections to foraging for the water matter. The smells, the textures, the hunting and scavenging for them. This is part of the creative process. What do your actions suggest? What are you trying to communicate?

Action points
Reflect on this feedback by identifying key points you feel are important to act upon and document these as you progress through the unit. Watch Lydia’s and Carolines creative conversation. Very apt for your subject in terms of both practical explorations and theories of land, terrain and bodies of water.

In terms of collaborators, you may want to talk to the local authorities to collect any visual and written data and documentation of the flooding. Library, council resources, local people/groups.

Your project plan is realistic. It’s good to see that you will do research and practical simultaneously. Allow one to feed into the other.

Think wider about your processes and what you are communicating. Is it linking to wider global issues?

Have a look at Olafur Eliasson ‘Ice Watch’ & Emma Stibbon’s ‘Melting Ice/Rising Tides’ for taking natural matter out of its habitat- are
you doing the same? Why? Keep taking photos of the different states of
the river.

50 SB (sketchbook) experiments. Don’t hideaway in your SB. Work with small and large scale. Don’t overthink this, just do. 20 x prints.

Rather than looking at one artist, skim the surface of the ones you have (including mine) and jot down the themes, ideas and key factors that resonate with you.

My notes: Additional artist Marc Quinn’s Series – The Toxic Sublime.

Use both theory and practical, mind maps to put all the information down, both drawing ideas and artists to research. Look at the emotional aspect, loss, and rebuilding. Use my personal knowledge and experience and bring this into the projects. Extend to global?? Use facts, data from the Environmental Agency, the council. Think about what I am doing removing litter and debris from the river and drawing with that. Record the different stages of the river. Later on think about the flood plain, building, breaking the rules, flood plain mapping and aerial shots.

We agreed there was a lot of context here to work from, use my personal experiences, my anger, passion knowledge and experience, and channel those thoughts into my work.