| LOG ARCHIVES MAY 2004 No research/gathering today. Sorted inside - brick fragments into sizes. Repaired a strip light plug and tested it under a textured pane for light quality, heat and suitabilty for illuminating glass fragments.Rainy period and xtra low tides are not so good for my purposes. Pablo, my research assistant and I got caught out by a seemingly stationary high tide in the Haven which failed to clear from my proposed route along the foreshore - so we waded, me in submerged gumboots, him swimming and shivering as darkness descended. Did anyone see us? Were they convinced we were mad to traverse the foreshore in such a fashion? Did we care? The answer to everything was NO. APRIL 2004 Have taken quite a few photos of arranged artefacts ( see some trials on this site) embedded in sand and have been looking at lighting for illuminating glass items from below. Collecting continues as more treasures are to be found. MARCH 2004 HAVE BEGUN a serious sifting and sorting of artefacts gleaned from the foreshore environment which will constitute the body of materials representing A Recent Archaeology of the Foreshore, Nelson. Want to have an artist's slant on archaeology and therefore will only nod slightly towards museum conventions...many of the items have a very sculptural quality inherent in their abstract, incomplete forms and this is what I hope to capture..and whoah i just had a great visualisation of utilising the option of 3D assemblage of these elements as well as the single planar alignment. So far the concept of sculptural designs has been flowing well into the process of selection and elimination...I have broken through the ceiling of indecision about how to knit the whole thing together |
| A RECENT ARCHAEOLOGY,the foreshore Nelson |
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