New Brief

Started our new brief entitled 'Home and Displacement'.  This is a very thought provoking subject as it affects so many people in different ways.  After some thought on the subject, I decided to do an installation based on the lives and the evacuation in1930 of the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda.  Moving away from home even for a short time can be very traumatic but for the St Kildans it was much worse as they would never be able to return.  I'm doing a participant observation excercise this week.  I am looking at the 'school run' and collecting information regarding the amount of cars, occupancy, arrival/departure times etc.  Took pictures on the way to college to-day for Johns' brief ' My Journey to College'.  Just traffic and roadworks, not exciting.  We are doing an origami workshop to-morrow, should be interesting.

Happy New Year

Had a nice break, now it's back to reality.  Must get my brain back into gear before Monday.  Been doing some research over the holidays, it's nice just to look at one thing at a time.  Just to make you feel warmer, two nice sunny photos of Barra.  I had   just fulfilled my ambition to land on the beach there.  It was amazing!