Week Seven: Consolidation Week

 I decided to explore some of my thoughts for my project;

I ended up deciding to chose Wymering Manor as my site, as my current thoughts and ideas for this project would work extremely well with my last project; S.A.H.R. ;

I finished my S.A.H.R. project off with a development of floorplans for Wymering Manor to be developed into a museum with a small café. I used inspiration from the 14 Henrietta Street Museum to propose the plans of restoring, protecting, and adapting the manor into a museum. At the time, I felt that my project was unfinished, and that there was more I wanted to explore and experiment with, this module gives me the chance to continue this, as well as that my current thoughts and ideas for this module link extremely well to S.A.H.R.; in my opinion, new materialist thinking, redundancy of function, and unconventional reuse work well together as they have the same fundamental ideas. 

I am very interested in the idea of developing an installation piece for Wymering Manor, I am unsure of what just yet, but I have been very inspired by the fence I was experimenting with. It led to me thinking about the heavy deliberate movements I had to make to extend and fold up the fence, which - to me - reminded me of heavy duty ink presses and old fashioned cameras like the view cameras with flash lamps and flash powder. (1) This then lead me to start thinking about kinetic / movement art. I am very excited and looking forward to developing my project further and seeing where it will take me. 

Link to my other blog that displays my research and findings of Wymering Manor and my development of S.A.H.R. ; https://creativetheorieslauracoman.blogspot.com/ 

(All photos taken by me.)