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Two days before the planned drone shoot I went to the river to test the full set of waterwheels for the first time. Even though… Read More »Final outcome: Full waterwheel test

A conversation with Julian centred on how to condense my outcome to its most salient meaning. He highlighted that I have accumulated a wide variety… Read More »Crit: Friday 29th May

In planning the presentation of my final outcome I firstly need to consider where the art resides. I’ve walked the length of the river, collected… Read More »Final outcome: Planning the space #1

One of my literary inspirations throughout this project has been the writing of Robert Macfarlane who is a nature writer (though he is much more… Read More »Research: Counter-mapping

Another set of paddles were laser cut using the Riks font I chose and the result was good, as can be seen below. The text… Read More »Final outcome: The final paddle build

I now need to finalise where to install and film the water wheels to achieve the most visually powerful outcome. The exciting news is that… Read More »Experiment: Finalising installation location

An issue arose with the laser cutting of my chosen font Ombudsman Stencil as below. The internal connecting parts within the letters were clearly too… Read More »Experiment: Font laser cut problem

With all the waterwheel design work complete now is the time to decide on the words to put on the paddles. We have 5 waterwheels… Read More »Experiment: Finalising words for the paddles

Land art is defined as art that is created with and embodied by the physical landscape and my proposed outcome sits partially in this genre… Read More »Research: Land art & artists

A font carries with it a rich embedded symbolism so the decision as to what font to use on the paddles was researched at this… Read More »Experiment: Font psychology and choice

This next experiment involved 2 paddles to assess how well they turned together but also each water wheel had paddles with different heights (12cm and… Read More »Experiment: Two paddle prototype

The amended design for the water wheels below has sizes in cm included. The paddles will be the same width but they will be taller.… Read More »Experiment: A design for full-size water wheels