Contemplating the week ahead I am aiming to redress the balance of the project which until now has been fairly heavily weighted towards working with other people either in workshops at the studio and schools or out in the landscape. This week I am intending to complete some more work based on 'stories'. The stories I am thinking about are the different ways we can describe the same place or the different filters through which we view somewhere. Working with other people and gaining insight into how they see the landscape has been very valuable and now I find this feeding into my work. The main overlapping, sometimes contradictory ways that people view the woods and commons can be summarised as: unspoiled, untouched nature, managed land, landscape which tells us about our past, recreational space, green belt, something to be preserved, something to be used. There is also the woods of our imagination where anything could happen.
