Collaboration Updates

Amelia

Amelia seems to not be sticking to our schedule, which is a massive issue as she lives in London and the final product would need to be posted a few days before the deadline. I don't want to not have the textiles element therefore I'm trying to suggest more time efficient ideas like creating a design that I could screen print or print digitally onto fabric but I'll most likely need to create the design myself.

She has slowed down in replying after I began compiling more updated research for her - uploading selected blog posts as pdfs to our shared google drive.

She could also just be flaking out as I've consistently messaged her about being understanding of if she can't do the project due to it clashing too much with her job and studies, however she's been consistent in responding properly and instead of leaving this to the last minute, I will potentially form the textiles element on my own.

Antoine

Antoine has begun developing some work however he's really behind schedule and the only collage he produced was using images of women from another culture - not even Arabic. I had already told him before that I created a shared drive folder for everyone with all the resources - research, images, themes. 

The use of outlining the flower presses is really interesting though and I'm planning on carrying this on throughout the project. I however established that the germ figure was not needed as it may play into the negative rhetorics, that the image should be black and white, and that the green should be a more earth tone, forest green.

Sophie

Given her some dried plants for the handmade paper and she'll be completing them soon.

Millie

Since our last meeting, we've both been sticking to the plan. Our last official meeting, we built a narrative for the book, mostly discussing the end pages, paper stock, and looking at some of my Practical Research references as inspiration and discussing what relates most to the topic of migration. 

Our next official meeting will be during a booked digital print session in which we're going to select the paper stock (as it's a choice between Osin 120 gsm and 200 gsm) and print a few pages as a prototype to test the handmade paper Sophie is making.

As Sophie is making handmade paper, we discussed how the title would go onto the front page as it can't go through the digital printer. Dom suggested testing screenprinting the text however based on past experience, glyphs that thin don't print very well, especially onto an absorbent paper therefore Millie and I settled on the idea of stickers.