…Continued from last post
Caroline suggested that it might be good to take the brakes off in terms of the ACE application, and give myself to have further exploratory conversations with other collaborators, allowing myself to develop a firm sense of exactly who I want to work with, and how the project will work best. The only person imposing a deadline on the project is me – this is my project, and perhaps its needs more time to incubate.
I felt a palpable sense of relief after this conversation. The prospect of not having to spend the next fortnight struggling with trying to complete the ACE form while everyone else is enjoying the sun or on holiday, seems pretty seductive. I’ve got a few meetings lined up over the next few weeks – including with an ethnographer, and art therapist – and rather than the focus being ‘the ACE form’ – these conversations can perhaps be more exploratory and less directed. Also I can have time to research (I’ve ordered 2 books, Using Photographs in Social and Historical Research by visual sociologist Penny Tinkler and ‘Phototherapy and Therapeutic Photography in a Digital Age’ by Del Loewenthal http://www.play.com/Books/Books/4-/33510791/744196305/Phototherapy-and-Therapeutic-Photography-in-a-Digital-Age/ListingDetails.html?_$ja=tsid%3a13315%7ccat%3a33510791%7cprd%3a33510791 – which was kindly suggested by fellow a-n blogger Rodney Dee – thanks Rod! www.a-n.co.uk/p/2422257) so being able to have some reading, and maybe me of my own making time, seems good for now.
I’ll also be meeting up with Caroline and Jez later this week to start to explore ways we could collaborate on the project. I’m really pleased about this. Our starting point is groupings of archive images, and each of us is going to bring some of our own archival images – and looking at single sex groupings. Now feeling excited, not stressed.
