Richard Keating

meeting with Sue Reed at Ruskin Mill to discuss our PhDs. Helpful to discuss differences and similarities. Both have a walking and community element. I was aware of Sue’s being very much about making as embedded knowledge, made me feel that my work is becoming conceptual/abstract by comparison and reminded me of the need to get back to making rather than holding the idea of making in my mind.

1st, 2nd and 3rd: early Christmas family gathering in Wargrave followed by Auntie Kathleen’s funeral in New Brighton. New and old generations, parents mistaken for grandparents, no longer living relatives present in the faces of grandchildren. The Thames filling its valley, overflowing; changing parks, fields and cricket ground to reflected sky, the Mersey vibrant and forceful rushing between the wirral and the city. Both rivers flowing as they have been across all those years.

21st to 30th November: reading/writing most of the time – completing Watery Landscapes Article and getting engrossed in thesis – interspersed with on going commitments to projects

Tutorial with Robert Newell, Andrea Liggins and Katrin Webster, followed by meeting with Mary Davis Turner.

All very helpful and focusing.

writing draft conclusion to article

16th to 18th, writing in Laugharne with Sue Porter, Alison Parfitt, Diana Ray, Julia Bennett, Jaqui Taylor, plus Helen Keating and Glenn Hall

12th to 16th; writing – spend more time reading – internet is both a great help and a hinderance – this can’t be – must be a matter of learning how to make best use of the technology available.

No time to join Tara over water, other than over the sink, with view to the Severn…

Activity Day
Making new benches, tree planting and managing woodland glade.

photos by Jackie Rowanly

3rd to 9th – reading and writing

Not the first revamp of Thesis- see attached

Attachments

new-contents-october-12-1354827125.doc

rk-15th-november-without-images-1354827374.doc

walked between the Daneway and Sapperton making sketch book work for inclusion in River project. Walked with Tara and Bart, Lucy Guenot, Jacqui Stearn, Jilly Cobb, David Moss, Arabella Lewis