What can landscapes teach us about ourselves?

Using Illustration as a research tool, positioning the illustrator within the landscape as facilitator of collective experience. The aim being to visually document collective experience in a ‘time-specific’ way, using light and foraging as materials - underpinned by Jungian concepts of the shadow and synchronicity.

I hope to maximise the ‘real’ to foster an empathic connection between viewer and site, using non-hierarchical and democratic methods to overcome participatory barriers and forge a connection with place, heritage, the self and the collective. My intention is to test these approaches during practice-based phd study, calling on my background as an occupational to facilitate engagement with landscapes for people with disability.

Presented at Illustration Research Method Symposium February 2021

Current practice based Phd proposal