Water body
Water body is an archive of work related to the theme of the river as a mirror for the self.
It’s divided into three sections.
The first part - Inbetween the tides - takes the viewer on a journey discovering the river Thames as it looks from a surface level, offering a conscious perspective on the river and its influence on the city’s political, cultural and financial activities. From the Tidal Head on the West near Teddington, a series of observational drawings and prints show what’s left to see of the Thames past and the numerous hints spread across the sorrounding architecture of its past.
It’s divided into three sections.
The first part - Inbetween the tides - takes the viewer on a journey discovering the river Thames as it looks from a surface level, offering a conscious perspective on the river and its influence on the city’s political, cultural and financial activities. From the Tidal Head on the West near Teddington, a series of observational drawings and prints show what’s left to see of the Thames past and the numerous hints spread across the sorrounding architecture of its past.
The second part is called Mud, maps, marks. It takes the viewer into a deeper space where from the daylight and the life of people and the human-built ‘civilised’ environment, the viewer zooms in and out, having a full picture of the Thames as a body of water crossing through London and then suddenly is made to experience some of the properties of its water as a material that lends itself to wider reflection in the context of this project.
The third part is called Nightlarking.
To the author’s dream journal is juxtaposed a series of objects found on the foreshore whilst mudlarking, to illustrate the connection between how things come to the surface of our consciousness following a bigger logic than we’re aware of - which we can summarise using words such as chaos, random, unexpected - just like objects are made visible giving us hints to the past of places around the river, making their memory come back to life.
To the author’s dream journal is juxtaposed a series of objects found on the foreshore whilst mudlarking, to illustrate the connection between how things come to the surface of our consciousness following a bigger logic than we’re aware of - which we can summarise using words such as chaos, random, unexpected - just like objects are made visible giving us hints to the past of places around the river, making their memory come back to life.