Data | Collections | Lists

As a starting point for our new project 'Data, Collections, Lists' we have been prompted to visit the Manchester Museum, the Holden Gallery and the Visual Resource Centre (Grosvenor room G22) to gather as much visual research as we can to give us a strong foundation for our new rotations. I'm beginning this project in Construct, therefore have been asked to concentrate on developing colour drawings from our research. We have also been asked to really consider how we record our journeys (physical journey and inspirational journey). In preparation I've started to think about interesting ways this can be achieved; I think the physical mapping of my journey could create some interesting lines, therefore I plan to use a pedometer map app on my phone on the way to the Manchester Museum. I love found objects, so perhaps I will collect whatever lost treasures (most likely trash) left behind by pedestrians on the Manchester streets and then create a 'collection' of my own. I am interested in how all the senses can over lap and inform visual development, so maybe I will record sounds with my phone every 5 minutes and from it develop a series of drawings from these recordings (both realistic and abstract); it also gives me the chance to play with the element of memory as I will be drawing from my head - and what bigger collection does mankind have other than memory? Perhaps I will make a list of businesses and establishments I see on the way to the museum, sorting them alphabetically. Im interested in what I can document on my way home from my visit, armed with the information I have learned and recorded in the gallery, I hope the research i gather will be able to inform my trip home and develop another element to my lists.
Im excited about this new project, and after my feedback from the Origins unit on Tuesday I can consciously work to improve the aspects of my work and practice which were not as string in the last unit. I need to remember the importance of sketchbook development and running with an idea until I can get everything out of it. Im also eager to push my idea of drawing in this project and how I document and develop.