Looking to the future.

This time at the end of a course lends itself to a natural reflective point. Keeping in mind my love/hate relationship with water, maybe I can shift my focus more outwards towards water as a shared environmental resource, rising sea levels, drought, melting ice or the loss of wetlands.

I am thinking about these shifts because I don’t want to stay tied to my own personal experiences of flooding.

My love/hate relationship with water, could extend to become an emotional thread within my practice, beauty and power, and the tension of it’s destructive and uncontrollable force.

The cyanotypes and collagraphs – should I continue or should I pivot away from this?

The cyanotypes have a natural link to water and sunlight, two very key climate elements. This work could be expanded with different substrates – fabric, recycled paper and translucent surfaces to evoke depth and fragility.

The collagraphs are tactile and textural, a way to express erosion, flood marks or cracked soil.

Expanding what I have, cyanotype textiles or more sculptural collagraphs, eco printing with water soluble materials and using the river water to encourage the shaping of the work. More investigating into mapping to make the environmental narrative clearer?

Questions for myself:

What excites me and troubles me about water and climate change?

How do I want viewers to feel about my work? Unsettled? Hopeful? Warned?

I am looking forward to my next journey.