Week 6 (Methods of translating Week 1) This week I began my exploration of the IKEA instruction manual as a visual language. I chose this publication because it’s so familiar, so ordinary, and so aggressively neutral. This week helped me clarify where my enquiry was heading: By the end of Week 1, my project shifted…

Week 4 (Week 1 of Methods of Cataloguing) This week I started looking at Andrew Garrett’s 19th-century fish illustrations via the Harvard Digital Collections. Honestly, my first thought was:“omg these are so cute”The colours looked soft, and the proportions were charmingly off. However … Once I started actually looking at the fish, the drawings shifted…

Week 1 This week was my first proper investigation of St George’s Gardens. I didn’t go in with a fixed idea; instead, I tried to respond to whatever felt visually or atmospherically striking. When we were asked to choose a site, I actually picked this place because I didn’t like it. On my first visit,…