Monday, 29 February 2016

SB2 Greetings From… | Initial Research

Okay, at this point I have a lot of ideas floating around although I'm not completely enthused about any of them. I'm thinking that because vectors are quite flat, synthetic, and can look quite similar to one another, my idea will have to do a great deal of the work!

So far…

ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

UNUSUAL LANDMARKS

RELICS & ANCIENT OBJECTS

SACRED & HOLY PLACES

SECRET / HIDDEN THINGS

Historical

Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, 1904 | The ship's bagpiper Gilbert Kerr plays a song for
an indifferent penguin (one of my fave photos)

PLACES OF CONFLICT

PLACES THAT ARE PART OF A JOURNEY (travel, pilgrimage, journey, voyage, expedition)

BURKE & WILLS - AUSTRALIAN EXPEDITION

ERNEST SHACKLETON / ROALD AMUNDSEN - ARCTIC/ANTARCTIC EXPEDITIONS

…bordering on the superstitious…

LOCATIONS OF WITCH TRIALS

PLACES THE DEVIL HAS BEEN SEEN

NORTH AMERICAN TOWNS ASSOCIATED WITH FOLKLORE / MYTHS

Gross places

The Sedlec Ossuary, Czech Republic

SWAMPS

SEWERS

CATACOMBS & TOMBS

Happenings / Festivals / Observed events

Keukenhof Gardens, the Netherlands | Aerial view of a tulip field..wowee zowee

KEUKENHOF TULIP FESTIVAL

SAN FERMIN, PAMPLONA, SPAIN (CHASED BY BULLS)

METEOR SHOWERS / COMETS / LIGHTS

ANIMAL MIGRATIONS - MONARCH BUTTERFLIES (Canada to Mexico)

Places with associated objects

Some daruma in the making..

DARUMA/DHARMA (Daruma-dera "Temple of Daruma", city of Takasaki, Japan)

↑ said to have influenced RUSSIAN MATRYOSHKA

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