Ideas for Visual Work

As mentioned previously, I've been thinking about making my research more personal to add a sense of authenticity, and historical/factual basis to any visual work I might carry out.

Although this direction could change, I wanted to try and see where this could lead.

So I would be looking at heritage, communities, location, region, customs..specifically to do with near where I live.

Here are some key words and themes I've came up with after looking at articles and gathering information...

Islands, beaches, marshes, salt flats, coves, cliffs, fishing ports, shipwrecks, storms

Fishermen, mariners, sailors, lifeguard, the Black Middens (legend, origin of word > Scandinavian), high and low lights, guiding ships, tallow candles, lighthouses

North sea, fishing communities, seafaring, the sea, myths, lifestyle, stories, mythic sense of the ocean, hard life, working people

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Relating to me:

Maps - Mam used to work in charts and navigation

Fishing industry - Granda

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Online image sources:

http://www.fish-quay.com/gallery/

http://oldlowlight.co.uk/history-of-the-old-low-light/

https://twarchives.org.uk/

http://newcastlephotos.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/old-photos-of-north-shields-fish-quay.html

https://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/sets/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/newcastlelibraries/4086835023/in/album-72157622716373305/

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Sequential illustrations? Forming the contents of a 'chapbook'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapbook

- Gathering photographs to use as basis for collages

- Visit home, take own photographs

- Use collages to assemble imagery that is historical/contextual, and create drawings from there. Collage not only photos, but objects too somehow? (Like the Peter Blake collages I looked at)