A RECENT ARCHAEOLOGY,
 the Foreshore, Nelson
      LOG -ARCHIVES
MAY 29
Have made the decision to terminate collection of further artefacts and focus on documentation - which will require my focus to shift to a category by category assessment of display elements and most photogenic elements. 
MAY 19
Have done some more very long explores through familiar and unfamiliar territory.Am feeling that although there is eternally more to gather,that the urge is there to continue refining the selections. Manged to acquire easily all the components for a light table, put it together and the latest images are on the Foreshore Art page
Click the arrow at right to see the series just done the other day on the new light table.

SUNDAY MAY 2
Pablo is a worthy assistant, though he's more an ornithologist - not formally trained but very skilled in silent observation...and for me too it's the ability to see that counts. Today's work took over 4 hours and I carried back 4 kgs of samples today - glass, ceramics, copper, other metals, a few bones and stones...this was a thorough scan from Tahuna to Wakefield Quay and back with a low tide.

The rocky foreshore is a treasure chest of quiet life and on the sandy main beach there are only around 50 people to be seen mid-afternoon.  Thousands of vehicles cruise the streets.
We've had a primo day



TODAY'S HAUL
   MAY 2
MYRIAD FORCES -this artwork comprises items which were the starting point for my work, A Recent Archaeology of the Foreshore, Nelson. I found a piece of boat wreckage washed up on the foreshore last year. With much excitement I returned the next morning to deconstruct the wreckage and transport away the pieces I wanted. I carved and engraved lines and patterns into the base of the cleat and reconstructed decking subfloor to represent the forces which led to the wreckage, the elements and tides which brought the pieces ashore, my energy involved in unbolting the cleat and extracting lengths of timber from the wreckage, the work of reconstructing and creating a response on the surface of these pieces.
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