interpretations...

Another two assignments handed in - good to be finished with them. One of them, the Personal academic Development was particularly dry but had to be done as part of the college curriculum. The other was moderately more exciting, it being a print out of this blog, in glorious technicolour but nothing as good as reading the real thing online. I printed it in colour only the blue ink ran out so it did look a little sorry for itself but the content was there non the less. Content that did fulfil the brief but as if you have been following this missive does diversify from time to time so we will await assessment and see how that has gone down.

In the mean time the Dr Martens project develops... the plot thickens and my interpretation of the brief has also diversified and after discussion with my tutor I am offering a marketing concept for the north east rather then a design for actual boots. I have had great fun knitting rope, macraming ( yes revisiting the dreaded macrame!!!) fishing nets cording shoe laces and ropes from all sorts of varied materiel - wool , wire , ribbon, Jersey fabric - the list goes on. Almost all the materials used are recycled or found materials which is a great way of creating something out of nothing. All these pieces are now sitting together woven into the discarded front of an old lobster pot found on the beach and its quite an effective piece.

detail of larger finished piece

I've completed two hand rendered boards and now I'm just playing about with ropes and fabric for my final concept. This has been a really enjoyable journey all to be finished for hand in after the Easter break.

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Almost last chapter... In which our Go Stargazing team watch Astonishing Aurora Borealis seen from the deck of the Astonishing Borealis!!!

The weather brightened considerably and the snowy peaks lining our sail down the fjiords looked glorious and sparkly in the sunshine against a (mainly) blue sky back drop. More awesome scenary.... the Go Stargazing team wrapt up their lectures ... only searching for the illusive Northern Lights remained. The tension from the night before dissolved in the sunshine the forecast for Aurora borealis was looking fairly positive - it was the captains farewell cocktsil party so everyone had their gladrags on.. We ate dinner and sky remained clear so we headed back to our room and donned as many layers as we could move in and proceeded to deck 10 in anticipation of stars and northern lights..... it did not dissappiont - just we got there as the bridge announced that the lights could be seen on the starboard side of the ship. It was stunning. Slowly the intensity built. The auroral green became brighter and bigger areas appe...

Vigo

We left the ship to explore Vigo. Its a much larger place then we expected... although tbh I hadn't given ut a lot of thought. Its a real mish mash of old and new and having got a map from tourist info we decided to follow the walking trail to the Monte Castro... the highest point of the town. Most of the town was pretty much as everywhere else... lots of traffic... lots of people... one or two interesting buildings and a lot of shopping. We headed to the art gallery - this has been a year of gallery visits so we we seen o reason to change now. The Museo de Marco is housed in the towns ex prison building and its very grand. In fact, I think that on this occaision the building might have been more interesting than the art.... Although the visiting exhibition by Susanne S D Themlitz was strangely compelling. It was a huge varied collection of eclectic items... found, salavaged, manipulated and arranged in lots of ways - weirdly inspiring - and mostly enjoyable to look at...

verdant lushness

Its a never ending island hop... today we hopped of the boat at Kingstown, on the island St. Vincents and Grenadine. Once through the usual port duty free - cheap booze and diamonds to go milarkey we were straight into the town... crazy noisy smelly chaos... refreshingly no tat shops for tourists, just local markets and street traders all vying for local sales. Music blasting from everywhere, cars (very battered and often very pimped) all over the roads - parked in the middle of the street, loading, unloading, chatting seemingly oblivious to the total traffic jam caused behind them... We walked through this mayhem - the temperatures were rising probably about 30 degrees - tourists evident by trying to walk on the shady side of the street - even when we turned off the main drag and there were less people it was still like carnival time with music blasting everywhere. Its very atmospheric and mostly promotes a good vibe although I have heard '3 little birds' everywhich way a...

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