During the start of this week I have been developing some ideas I had over the weekend. As I said last time I was starting to feel a bit frustrated with the course that my FMP had taken and wanted to do something a bit different in my approach to the messaging space. When I was looking over some of my earlier sketchbook work I got back to thinking about maps and the piece I hap done layering together maps of Crouch from the 1870s and 1920s. I was amazed that in the space of 50 years a place could become totally unrecognisable. The only thing that matched in the maps was the hourglass shape of the broadway and the four roads that lead off from it.
Here is a page of my log book, showing a photocopy of my map piece. It made me wonder if the people living in crouch end would recognise a simplified map of the area when I confronted them with it. I felt this went along nicely with my revival- trying to get people back in touch with their area and connect with it more.
I took that map and started to experiment with ways I could use it in an installation.
I've been really lucky it's been so sunny, because this mud roc piece photgraphs much better in this light.
I'm going to carry on looking at these shapes and ways I can make them into compartments for dropping notes and letters. I have an idea of cutting them out of big sheets of MDF with a jigsaw and draping material behind it.
I'm off to interview Colin the magazine vendour on the broadway now
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