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The project is at a point where I'm keen to get under the skin of some high-profile land/environmental artists, particularly ...

The day came to install the water wheels, film them with the drone and absorb the sense of them being ...

I chose to study a selection of installation artists to gather ideas for my own installation, specifically artists who incorporate ...

Many photographs were taken when I was installing the waterwheels to provide material for showing with the installation. I was ...

Two days before the planned drone shoot I went to the river to test the full set of waterwheels for ...

A conversation with Julian centred on how to condense my outcome to its most salient meaning. He highlighted that I ...

In planning the presentation of my final outcome I firstly need to consider where the art resides. I’ve walked the ...

One of my literary inspirations throughout this project has been the writing of Robert Macfarlane who is a nature writer ...

Another set of paddles were laser cut using the Riks font I chose and the result was good, as can ...

I now need to finalise where to install and film the water wheels to achieve the most visually powerful outcome ...

An issue arose with the laser cutting of my chosen font Ombudsman Stencil as below. The internal connecting parts within ...

With all the waterwheel design work complete now is the time to decide on the words to put on the ...

Land art is defined as art that is created with and embodied by the physical landscape and my proposed outcome ...

A font carries with it a rich embedded symbolism so the decision as to what font to use on the ...

This next experiment involved 2 paddles to assess how well they turned together but also each water wheel had paddles ...