Research week

This week I visited the Manchester Museum in order to gather visual resources for the coming project. As we were asked to consider our journeys and how we can record them I made lists and collections of data of my own. Firstly I used a pedometer app on my phone to map out my journey throughout the day, by screen-shoting the maps I then further investigated possible line qualities from the images. I was also struck by the distance I had traveled, from Withington through to the first half of my museum visit, which was '5.47miles'; there after I used '5.47' as a 'limitation' to work with, using a time limit of either '5.47mins' or '54mins 07secs' to draw and develop some visual recordings both in the museum and at home.

I found the shorter limit forced me to work quickly, gathering key impressions and qualities which caught my eye at the museum, whilst the longer limit allowed me to reassess my research at home, and both develop and abstract form and colour in different ways.
On my way to the museum I made a list of every establishment I passed, attracted to the colourful shop fronts, although it all had to be alphabetical. Work from A to Z is quite manageable with words, but I then decided to apply that to my journey through the museum as I had no clear direction of what sort of animals/objects/qualities I wanted to look at. It forced me to consider exhibits I would otherwise have ignored. Therefore all my time limit drawings were also limited by the alphabet sequence, up until 'S', when I discovered the Ancient Egyptian Shabtis. I am drawn to the etherial turquoise of the clay ornaments, and interested in compiling a colour pallet based on the colours of ancient Egypt.