Week three we had presentations on Denis Wood and Janet Cardiff. Seeing as I did the presentation on Wood, it's pretty easy for me to come to the conclusion that his early work doesn't really fit into my chosen area. His early work is minimalist industrial based work and to use my outdoor, natural area as a basis for this sort of work doesn't really sound right. His later work in cartography would be a brilliant way of approaching my site, or any site for that matter. His maps of his childhood neighborhood shows that he has a personal connection with the area, just as I have a personal connection with my chosen space. Wood tends to map the things that people don't normally notice like the street lights, Halloween lanterns and the route that the underground pipes take. In keeping with this theme, if I were to map this area I would not go for the typical markings like the trees and bushes that surround the flat. I would map things like the line that the sun takes over the clearing, the path I take to get to my favourite spot. I could also map small things like the placement of the animal droppings or the animal made tracks and paths over the clearing to show the type of natural place this is.
As for the work of Janet Cardiff she has already created a work perfectly designed for a setting such as mine. Her 2012 work called FOREST (for a thousand years...) is a sound installation in a forest that goes for around 28 minutes before it loops back to the start. This idea of an installation piece that engages through the sound of the audio and the sight of the space around you, the feel, smell and taste of the fresh air and your surroundings would be an overwhelming experience.
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