Last week I met up with the cartographer Jillian Luff who will hopefully be helping me to produce the maps for my four sites. It was an excellent opportunity to talk through my plan for the maps, the layout and interpretation of the landscape, whilst also giving me a deadline for getting things finalised. It is rather a strange feeling to be handing over part of the production to someone else. I am use to having complete control over my work but although it’s new, it is also going to be incredibly exciting to see my ideas interpreted by a professional cartographer. I think she can bring an authentication to the work that I could never achieve. This collaboration was a key element when planning this project and Jillian’s enthusiasm and responsiveness to the ideas make it an especially interesting aspect of the research.
Deadlines are tight though so I have to get cracking. After a hectic February moving house and having various sickness set backs, I’m going to need to steam roller on this month to catch up. I’ve started photographing my finds….so far done 40 of the 379! and will be starting on the drawings very soon.
