Discussion

(A slightly late entry due to the loss of internet for four days, thanks Virgin Media). Meeting with Jan and Dani to discuss the ideas was interesting. Each of us had our own separate ideas but the one we came up with was a compromise that suited all three. We were thinking more in terms of location at first, intending on keeping a set of images limited to one location. We went to the Cemetery on Welford Road and made some images, but we didn’t take as many as we wanted, so we went away to think about other locations.

Below are several of the images we made at the cemetery. The idea was to show the use of Graveyards and Cemeteries as transitional spaces. Not only are they a transitional space for someone who’s buried there, the place between their passing or the space between life and death. They are also transitional spaces for those who visit it. This particular one has walkways through which people use as a cut-through, giving it many uses.




Because we didn’t get as many as we would have liked, we began to think of other ideas or of extending our ideas to fit the theme. The result we came up with was journeys in general. It still fits into our theme of life and death but under the premise of journeys.


The physical journeys we take.
The emotional journeys we take.
Places we visit or use on the journeys but that we wouldn’t otherwise, or that we don’t pay attention to.


We each decided to contribute several images to the total due to places we were visiting at the weekend. My next post will be looking at the inspiration behind mine and the images themselves.