Only the full-time students were presenting their project (last week), but some of us part-timers went along to see what they'd been up to. Such interesting work! - stacking boxes with false bottoms; walnut shells with typewritten contents; staples coming out of the spine of a book (not comfortable to hold/read). Many people used the amulets as a starting point - here are some Taiwanese amulets, lucky charms for good health, that informed one of the projects.
My lunchtime reading -
The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson: "the history, science, philosophy, literature, theory and practice of pedestrianism" - not entirely tangential to the project proposal that was under revision at the time. And very enjoyable.This looks fun too -
look at fiona Hall's people alphabet - it even says something pertinent in the example I found onlinehttp://www.thememoirdetective.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Route-HallDSC0133012.jpg they are made from pressed aluminium I think -
ReplyDeleteReminds me to dip in again to 'The Art of travel' by Francis Galton. Lot of tips (some rather un-PC) for the Victorian traveller including how to make a travel journal!
ReplyDeleteRe: walking -- I learned that John Muir, one of the US heroes of the environment, walked from Massachusetts to Florida. He was going to continue south, but got malaria and went west instead -- and became the genius saviour of Yosemite Park. Walking may be the only way to know many places. And it gives you time to journal, if not to make the book around the journal.
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