More site work

This week me and my site buddy went to our site to continue collecting a much data as possible about the area. During the hour and a half we spent there I collected a variety of different pieces of information, in terms if objects within the site, peoples movements and also the layout of the site in general. In particular I did a drawing using a technique derived from a practicle that our group had with our lecturer. This technique was to draw what I saw, but without looking so that an abstracted image of what I was seeing was produced. I decided to use this technique on the levels that I was able to observe from the centre of our site. The image I produced is below:

The majority of this drawing has been done by drawing shapes without looking, but there are also areas which I chose to draw whilst looking to create a coherent image. I based my choice of this on the importance of the section of the view and also how regimented the shapes were. For example the cobbles at the bottom of the image are all the same shape so I drew them whilst looking, unlike the stones which build the walls of each level as these are all different shapes and so I drew them individually without looking. The circular rails I also drew whilst looking as getting the circles in the right places was important to the image, whereas the outline of the the levels and the jagged stones at the top of each wall were more abstract and so I chose to draw them without looking. Anyway the end result I acheived was as above.

The blue line shown on this image is, rather strangely, the path of a pigeon as it looked for food on the floor. I chose to sketch this down as I have been mapping the paths taken by humans in the site, but have not compared this to the use of the area by other animals. Humans are very calculated about how they find a path through an area, often resorting to the easiest or quickest route through the area. However animals such as pigeons are much more erratic in their choice of path and carry a completely different agenda for their being there. I thought this may be an interesting aspect to look at as it is not only humans who use the area, and I may be able to use this comparison later on.