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‘ T I M E S L I C E ’...a day at Dungeness...

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B R I E F...to look for

visually inspiring images — & —

to capture and mediate the visual language

of the place visited...

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M E T H O D O L O G I E S ● Find a concept by using ideas to lead to concepts. (Concept Fan)

● To work in black and white photography only. (Limitatations)

● To suspend Judgement and to explore all posible opportunities. (Quantity & Quality)

● To use instinctive exploration and to employ Sendipity. (Happy Accident - Suspending Judgement)

● To mediate the pictures through digital process and to place the work on social media. (Process Matrix)

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Images from Dungenessby

Bri an Whitehead© 2014

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In March 2014 a coach was hired to take some 50± first and second year Graphic Design BA(Hons) students from the UCA in Epsom, down to Dundeness for a day out – to both inspire and facilitate a group outing experience.

Dungeness: is a headland on the South Western coast of Kent in the South East of England. It is a large area of low-lying shale beach near the Romney Marsh.

It is also the site of a nuclear power station and is accompanied by other nearby buildings and light houses, erected on the coastal shifting shale. Moreover, it is an important wild life, ecologically and historically protected site.

So as we chose it to make a day visit: It seemed daunting to think about what visual material could be found and used creatively by students.

At Dungeness there is an enormous amount of visually inspiring material, ripe for artwork and photography. There has been much work inspired

by the site over many years, especially for the fashion and film industry.

This is not surprising, as the shale beach, the houses erected on the shale, the Nuclear Power station and the sea front with it’s fishing boat skeletons, all provoke an other worldly isolated and desolate mood.

This rich and emotive visual environment provides the possibility for all sorts of image making in the creative mind.

Unsurprisingly there are artists studios and houses in the area which have tapped into the rich visual language of the area.

To have pre-visualised finding Accidental Faces in this landscape – inspired by Liz Wilson’s brief comment has made it a visit to cherish and remember.

In my view: There are always a good ideas and concepts within close reach where ever you may be...

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h e r e ’ sl o o k i n ’

aty o u

‘ k I D ’Grateful acknowledgement

toSallyanne Theodosiou

for suggesting we all visitDungeness

&Liz Wilson

for the heads up on accidental faces