Evaluation - Visual Language

This project pointed me to old things and the story they told, so I thought my house would be a
great base to set my project around because I have lived in this house for 10 years and not noticed
the clues of the past or know much about its history. Finding out facts and stories about my house
inspired me to create work that shows the beauty and history of ‘Old Boat Farm’ and how it has had
a significant role over the years.

When first studying my house, I was looking for characteristics with history that I could build my
project around and that would help me learn about how my house has changed. Such as the banister
rails, cornicing, stonework, shutters, and drainage. Some of these features have been here for over a
hundred years, if not 2 hundred and I found it fascinating these parts had been around to see every
change. This is why I decided to focus so closely on key aspects, I wanted to capture the importance
of them to the house, and how much information they told me about how the house. I feel I could
have included more drawings of what the house looked like in the past, and wider view of the house
today.

I have experimented with printing methods, rubbering's, image transfer and drawing techniques
which have helped me to get a feeling of faint, light indications in my work, that mirror the echos of
the past throughout my house. I think the rubbering's have had the best impact and really allowed
me to develop my work further by turning 3D into 2D. Anything I could find that gave me facts about
the past was traced because I was looking for something unclear, unseen and forgotten, by taking
rubbering’s of these I made not the real thing but a hint of what was there. These developed into
maps of a sort, where I made some kind of treasure map and my prints and rubbering's were the
pieces I needed to put together. I think I could have made these bigger and weirded shaped that
mimic the shape on the house and outbuildings.

Overall, this project has been a challenge because I have had to change my perspective on how to
look at things. Instead of seeing what is there now, I am looking for evidence of what was there, and
then also trying to create that in my drawings.