30th March

Had a bit of a breakthrough towards my project today, Adrian mentioned looking at age and decaying as it was running theme in my images and maybe it was this idea of aging tension that i need to start looking at. Need to start drawing some more and really working these ideas out.

 Got looking at these two images, the first image a recurve bow used by the mongols when they still used bows. What really made me intrested in this image is the unusual shape of it, the bends are really nice similar to the first part of this project for me and well its a bow, the bow only works because of tension it is basically tension in its raw form.

The second image is a picture i took a while ago, i got looking at it after speaking to adrian, i can really see the applied force in this image. As the chain goes across the deck so loose then as soon as it touchs that hook it becomes rigid, the change in a object by just introducing a hook. Without that hook there would be no loose section, it is what around the chain that defines the chain.

 This was the last of the images i looked at, its a picture i took on my way home, i walk under this tree every single day ive been in Hereford and this was the first time i stopped and looked at it. I got staring at the lower branchs and how they had been pushed in and clipped so it didnt interfer with the road next to it, i just like the contrast between where man has applied force to the lower section and above that where it has been left to push out and be free. Like the chain the tree is shaped by man, it would not look like it does if not for man applying the force to it.

Got some real intresting ideas bubbling around in here, still have no ruddy clue what im gonna do for my final piece mind.

In other news today had a big talk with Kath over cultural studies, it was good to get a sense of things but because Simon wrote the breif i seem to be getting alot of maybes and i will have to ask Simon which isnt that helpful. I think my essay will be around the idea of caging nature in agansit in the past caging nature out.

I am officailly on hoilday now for three weeks so these posts wont be so frequent, its not because i dont love you learning journal its just for a few days im gonna be a person again and do a little living.