Tuesday morning and it was the first day for us to get into our individual book projects. I spent the morning setting everyone up with a work plan and making sure they all knew where to find materials and facilities to help develop their ideas.
Everyone was well prepared and had obviously spent yesterday thinking through the project brief and finding their own interpretation of the project themes. I have been impressed that our visitors have responded so much to the idea of place as a receptacle of emotional identity.
Today I had many conversations about personal observations concerning the landscapes and city locations we have visited over the last few days. These visits have obviously been beneficial in developing ways of adjusting to dislocation from home and in finding new definitions of home within themselves. So its been a really interesting day for me seeing how these young artists have analysed their experience of being here though prism of the project theme.
Their own discussions with our students also seem to have cemented their observations about the psychological experiences associated with certain familiar or unfamiliar environments.
The photographs show the group at work preparing their images for print, developing book structures and generally thinking through the practicalities of realising their concepts.
