boat building
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Research trip to Dover Museum
I travelled to Dover to see a bronze age boat they had on display in the museum. This boat was much larger than the single-occupancy dug out boats I had been researching for the ‘more boats’ project but is useful to study for one of the development works I’m working on that will be a…
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A Typical Week
I wanted to give an idea of a typical week on this project – so why not last week. For more detail on the bullet points below see the attached video. This account of my hours is intended to demonstrate a typical week on the project and I feel it gives a good idea of…
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Display Of The Boats
One of the things I’ve had to consider now that the project is drawing to its close and I am planning the end exhibit, is just how to display the boats. I want them to be off the floor but not on some great apparatus that will dominate. I also want the audience to be…
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A Generational Thing
The truth is that since graduating from an MA close to ten years ago now I’ve been using my degree in education more often than my own practice. So much so that I had burned out on doing educational stuff. Having this project as an opportunity to pour myself into my own work, thoughts and…
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Sketchbook highlights February
Much of the sketchbook pages from this month came during my retreat – there’s a lot of writing, of which I will spare you. I had thought of February as a dry and difficult month in the project as so much time was sucked up by preparing materials for the milk carton kayak. But looking…
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Sketchbook January highlights
In addition to the previous shots of my sketchbook from January I wanted to share these with you. Looking back through my sketchbook gives the best timeline of my thinking JANUARY These shots show an initial idea for a second cardboard boat, progress with the mammoth recycled plastic kayak, and my original idea to make…
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Early Plastic boat experiments (sketchbook pages)
On these pages (the middle pages dated January 11) you can see the plastic kayak idea moving from initial idea and through first tests. It also records the loss of one of my planned mentors and meeting with boat builder Glyn. In the drawings you can see how the influence of seafaring myths and pilgrimage…
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On naming (sketchbook pages)
As this project has been focussed on building a body of work rather than public facing outputs… there’s stuff in my scketchbook (evidence of the work done in thought and prep) that had never made it to the blog. In order to make a record of some of that stuff I will be uploading highlights…
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New Works
Check the boats / works section of the site to see write ups about two works you may have missed were you just following the blog. Imagined Heritage and hand paddle
Jim Lockey 