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In his book, A Dream of England, John Taylor explores how our sense of national identity is explicitly linked to our Landscape or at least our 'dream' of our green and pleasant land. Our sense of patriotism and this form of 'gentle nationalism' has it's roots in our links to the history of our Country. …
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I've not pinned down a specific title for my essay but reading ahead to the Part four coursework, I'd like to explore something around this topic. I've read the extract for the next exercise and as a consequence, I've ordered the book. This is definitely a topic that interests me. Our sense of National identity …
Bates begins the essay by stating photography's negative relationship to memory in the sense that what is missing or not seen within a photograph. This seems to relate to the 'truth' of a photograph and how an image might be 'read'. He also goes on to state photography as a mnemonic device and it's specific …
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I have to be honest, we buried our very lovely old cat yesterday. I had to make that difficult decision which had been pending for some months now. Today I'm heartbroken. He's buried under the lavender next to his buddy who we lost last summer. It's difficult to focus on writing academically and from the …
Castle Park This is a selection of the images I've accrued for assignment six. I was having doubts initially as to how it would work. My trips to the park were interrupted in the run up to lockdown. Although going out with a tripod might be stretching the rules of lockdown somewhat, I can easily …
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(They were my Landscape Phoebe Kiely, 2020) This is a beautiful book and a good way of viewing the landscape differently. Shot in black and white film, the images involve both random views of the immediate landscape and also portraits. There is both abstraction and texture. The images are taken at close range which removes …
I was advised by my tutor to look at the work of Chrystel Lebas. Many of the projects fit nicely with the kind of mood and visual strategy that I was hoping to achieve in assignment two. The images below are from a project titled "Natural History". The images are 'botanical' in nature but with …
Tutor report 2Download I saw the email come through last night before I went to bed and had a quick read. I did brace myself a bit and I'm grateful to my tutor for being kind and constructive. The bottom line is that this was unfinished, muddled and overly complicated. I was thinking back to …
I was a bit quick to send my images to my tutor for Assignment two. I had planned to try some visual effects but when I realised that I wasn't going to able to get out for another day, I 'cobbled together' what I thought was the best that I already had. With time available, …
'The Naze', Walton The East of England coastline has changed significantly over the last 2000 years sadly mostly due to coastal erosion. The soft 'Red Crag' cliffs are being lost at a rate of anything up to two metres a year. (LOST TOWN | Background |, 2020) Going way, way back, 50 million years ago …
Landscape, Place and Environment 