Coming up to the next workshop at Fox Hollies school, the shape of what the final work will be was taking better shape in my head. I’m planning to try to express some of the tension between nature and building, nature and photography through an arrangement of the images we’ve collected through the workshops.

So the kids would have a better sense of this being a process with results, setting up a figuring of visual conversations between occupants of the space we’re kind of anticipating, and it’s context and construction, and to start to add layers of inscription to the images we’d made in the previous sessions, I thought I’d invite the students to illustrate them using objects we’d collected and coloured chinagraph pencils. It turned out to be quite an effective way of collaborating. Certainly the process of scanning leaves and sycamore pods went down well. I’m into the idea that we’re making a visual space that figures the qualities to be hoped for from the future real construction. Danny told everyone about how he was inspired by the drooping of a willow twig’s leaves, and with that in mind we went out to take more images, collect stuff, and shelter from the chilly rain before hurrying inside to scan. The space that the final piece will hang in school is a light stairwell which looks out onto the garden area. It’s going to look good. Watch this space.