upon receiving this brief, the first thing i did was make a spreadsheet, which, in hindsight, was a really bad way to box me into certain themes and ideas. this was my original list of references; i threw every reference that felt even vaguely relevant into it. nostalgia texts, internet culture essays, visual culture theory,…

i knew from reading the brief that i wanted my iterations to be illustration-based, so i chose a flower from a study that i did during methods of investigating to be the source of my iterations. i also knew that if i didn’t set a condition for my iterations, i would be drawing things randomly…

for the second week of contextualising, i made a long receipt that mimicks a bureaucratic tone but actually exposes what gets hidden in between silos of data. our group decided to use this as a format to present our final work. at first, i had intended for this receipt to be a printed publication, complete…

Our group decided to focus on waste data, and used Miro as a shared research space from pretty early on. Everyone drops what they find, and we figure out the shape of the project together through comments and meetings. In practice, it was a lot messier than that — in a good way!! I thought…

I started this project with a pretty simple question: what actually happens to an image when you run it through a risograph printer over and over again? Not in a theoretical way, but literally, what does it look like? What breaks first? What survives? I thus printed an image, scanned it, fed that scan back…

my notes after week 1: Thoughts that I am having … As part of my iterations, I began experimenting with halftoning. I was initially excited by the logic of it, the way continuous tone gets translated into dots. It felt appropriate for Riso. While testing, I chose fluorescent pink as one of the colours. There…

20 jan 2026. This week was my first time using the Risograph printer. I decided to copy one of Ancco’s illustrations as a way of understanding how her images are constructed, especially her use of layered colour and emotional tone. I underestimated how tedious the process would be. (,,•᷄‎ࡇ•᷅ ,,)? Before you even get near…

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,…